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The mysterious Inspector O is once again drawn into a web of concessions and cover-ups in the newest mystery from critically acclaimed author James Church. Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O...
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This is the sixth and latest addition to the European Union Studies Association's prestigious series, State of the European Union . The contributors of this volume take the dynamic interaction between...
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This collection of essays addresses a topical subject of current importance, namely the impact of the EU on national welfare state systems. The volume aims to question the perception that matters of s...
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In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating syste...
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One of the most contested issues of the 20th century is that of welfare - how it should be available, to whom, on what terms and by what means. The debate on welfare has taken place across the develop...
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Nelson provides a historical overview of the theoretical and ideological evolution of the modern state, from pre-state and pre-modern state formations to the present. Major themes and key thinkers are...
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In State of the World 2006, the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research team provides concerned citizens and national leaders with comprehensive analysis of the global environmental problems we ...
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From the author of the bestselling "The State of the World Atlas", here is an essential tool for understanding the Middle East and its pivotal role in global politics.As Western powers attempt to redr...
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This volume takes a look at the trends that have put the global economy on a collision course with the Earth's ecosystems. It aims to provide a vital synthesis ranging across a wide spectrum of both t...
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Offering a fresh and unique approach to surveying the historical transformations of the Chinese state, "Human Security and the Chinese State" focuses on human security in contrast with the twenty-firs...
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Cities are facing enormous challenges, with rapidly growing urban populations, often worsening environmental conditions and deteriorating infrastructure, inequalities and housing shortages, unemployme...
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As the United States casts an increasingly dominant shadow in world affairs, resentment from the international community widens. In "The State of the American Empire", Stephen Burman lays bare the glo...
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In this 25th edition of State of the World - long established as the most authoritative and accessible annual guide to our progress towards a sustainable future - the studies pay particular attention ...
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Cooper analyzes how notions of "community," "conflict," "dangerousness" and "safety" have been used and understood in British social policy. By offering a conceptually grounded treatment of these them...
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We live in a world governed by states whose enduring importance and domination of contemporary politics has been strikingly underlined by their renewed activism in the face of a global economic crisis...
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Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution.
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The Jewish state of Israel has now acquired the status of a pariah acrossmuch of the West and especially in Europe. For many, it has become thecontemporary equivalent of apartheid South Africa - a sys...
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International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments someti...
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The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the most important historical processes to have occurred in Europe during the 19th century. The state and other bod...
In 1979, a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all knownmilitary practice - and indeed the laws of physics - they believed that asoldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass clean...
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This book offers an account of the performance of the welfare state in the European Union, and explores its future prospects in an ever evolving setting. The objectives of the welfare state are twofol...
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This book provides a major new examination of the current dilemmas of liberal anti-racist policies in European societies, linking two discourses that are normally quite separate in social science: imm...
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This book recovers and recommends the core conviction of Victorian liberal theory that human beings, with the help of the state, can achieve an objective moral perfection. The first half of the book c...
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The papers in this book illustrate the balanced dichotomy between terrorism and counter-terrorism against the background of the liberal state. This is a unique battlefield, where the tactical advantag...
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The issue of state subsidies has received insufficient analytical attention despite its important implications for global trade. This book will be the most up to date statistical analysis of industria...
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A full-color text, complete with DVD, that covers all aspects of vaginal surgery -- from anatomy to advanced techniques Surgery plays a key role in the medical management of a wide range of gynecologi...
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The process of globalization is dynamic in the direction of increasing integration. The effects of economic events in one part of the world affect economic affairs in other parts of the world. This bo...
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The dream of economists after 1945 was a system of multilateral trade through the International Trade Organization (ITO) to reverse the protectionism of the Great Depression. Since then, a system of p...
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The institutionalization of Islam in the West continues to raise many questions for a range of different constituencies. Secularization represents much more than the legal separation of politics and r...
