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Business Behaving Well: social responsibility, from learning to doing
A guide that will enable businesses to integrate social responsibility into their purpose and operations. Read more...
The Covert Sphere: secrecy, fiction and the national security state
Why would a wartime government spend valuable resources on a melodrama of covert operations? The answer, according to Timothy Melley, is not simply that fiction has real political effects but that, since the Cold War, fiction has become integral to the growth of national security as a concept and a transformation of democracy. Read more...
Persuasion and Power the art of strategic communication
Deals with the art of strategic communication, how it is used, where, and why. This title illustrates how its principles have made a critical difference throughout history in the outcomes of crises, conflicts, politics, and diplomacy across different cultures and societies. Read more...
Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open
Industry's target is to halve carbon emissions by 2050. But demand for materials will DOUBLE, so we'll have to reduce emissions per ton of material by 75%. This book shows how we can do this, backed up by real-life commercial experience, and full of scientific detail, written for a popular audience as well as specialist readers. Read more...
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy
A unique insight into the interaction between the state, financiers and entrepreneurs in the modern innovation economy. Read more...
Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative Perspective
This book deals with a subject that has recently been the focus of debate and law reform in many jurisdictions: how much scope should spouses have to conclude agreements concerning their financial affairs and under which circumstances should such agreements be binding and enforceable? Read more...
Beyond Boundaries: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border
The recent growth of Third World economies is ostensibly based on extracting raw materials, specially mining, a controversial issue that has taken centre stage in recent yearsThis book explores what everyday life is like for the thousands of Bangladeshis who labour in the borderlands coal mines. Read more...
Fighting Season: tales of a British officer in Afghanistan
A terrific, gritty and intelligent account of Afghanistan. Read more...
Betting on China
Chinese Stocks, American Stock Markets, and the Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism - a timely and controversial discussion of the way that China's emerging business financing structures are outperforming those in the West Read more...
Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets
Argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through the daily use of mundane legal techniques such as collateral by a variety of secondary agents, from legal technicians and retail investors to financiers and academics and even computerized trading programs. Read more...
The Threat to the Brain: Are Psychiatrists Necessary?
This book explains why the claim of psychiatry to be scientific is deeply flawed. It goes on to explain that only psychotherapy of one kind or another is the only external help that can be given to anyone in mental distress, without causing permanent harm and which can bring inestimable benefit. Read more...
Rule and Ruin
As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Read more...
The Pakistan Cauldron
Pakistan's stability is key to regional peace, to the future of Afghanistan, and to the global struggle against violent extremism. Understanding Pakistani politics is crucial to working with this challenging American ally. Read more...
Female Breadwinners
Never before have female breadwinners - women who are the main earners at home - faced such a unique opportunity. Read more...
Tommy this an’ Tommy that
There is nothing new about the military covenant, a freshly minted term for something that’s been around for as long as soldiering itself. Read more...
Afghanistan: Land of Conflict and Beauty
John Griffiths delves into the history, culture, social fabric, internal politics and economy of this intriguing and backward country. Read more...
The Human Rights Act and the Assault on Liberty: Rights and Asylum in the UK
A major objective of the Human Rights Act (HRA) was to bring about a culture of rights in the UK. Read more...
Tweets from Tahrir
The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Read more...
Europe United
The construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of either economic self-interest or dissatisfaction with the nation-state system. Read more...
The Modern Middle East
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Read more...
Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science
After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. Read more...
Iraq and the Use of Force in International Law
The prohibition of the use of force is one of the most crucial elements of the international legal order. Read more...
Dismantling Democracy In Venezuela
This book examines the process of dismantling the democratic institutions and protections in Venezuela under the Hugo Chávez regime. Read more...
The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
The Conservatives are back – but what took them so long? Read more...
The Insecure American: How we got here & what we should do about it
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. Read more...
Changing the Course of Aids
Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. Read more...
Nuclear Papers
This is an explosive mixture of Owen's recently declassified papers relating to the UK's last review of nuclear weapons policy and a forceful polemic on the past, present and future of government nuclear policy. Read more...
The World and Wikipedia - How we are Editing Reality
Wikipedia has emerged as the reference source that most of us turn to most of the time. Read more...
On the Basra Road: Scenes from the Gulf War
An account of Stephen Sackur's experiences of the Gulf War, during which he was a BBC foreign correspondent. Named one of the 'Books of the Year' by the Spectator magazine. Read more...
Job Insecurity and Work Intensification
Based on findings of the recently published Joseph Rowntree Report, this book provides a review of research on flexibility, job insecurity and work intensification. Read more...
