Politics

Essential to understanding the roots of one of the worst foreign policy disasters in American history," Circle in the Sand" is a revelation-filled account that exposes the troubling links between the two Bush presidencies and their wars in Iraq. Drawing on hundreds of never-before-revealed White Hou... More

Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability on the one hand with the pressing challenges facing some of the worlds most underdeveloped areas. World-renowned experts in the burgeoning field of urban studies and contributors from... More

This handbook offers concise information on the properties of polymeric materials, particularly those most relevant to the areas of physical chemistry and chemical physics. In the second edition of Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook, each chapter has been extensively updated and revised. The n... More

In 2000, UN member states pledged to halve world poverty by 2015, among other Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). But progress has been elusive since. The chapters in this volume address disparate problems in achieving the UN Development Agenda, from the complex effects of trade and financial li... More

The authors focus on the need to move beyond emergency relief to create new social and economic structures that can serve as the foundations for a lasting peace. Prosperity, the authors acknowledge, does not guarantee peace; but a lack of economic development will almost certainly lead to renewed vi... More

The concept of discourse provokes considerabe debate and is understood in a variety of ways in the contemporary social sciences. This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different conceptions and methods of discourse analysis, while setting olut the traditions of thinking in which these co... More

Sustainability is crucial for all institutions involved in international development. This book offers much-needed practical guidance on how to achieve it.There are 3 main kinds of sustainability and a section of the book is devoted to each: 1. Making the impact of the organization's work sustainabl... More

This book tells the story of the ozone layer and how the Montreal Protocol averted a grave threat to the whole of humanity through the destruction of this layer. In 1974, scientists Mario Molina and Sherwood Roland warned that chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants, solvents, aerosol product propella... More

This engaging introduction to contemporary politics examines the historical construction of the modern territorial state. Opello and Rosow fuse accounts of governing practices, technological change, political economy, language, and culture into a narrative of the formation of specific state forms. T... More

The Military Balance 1998/99 is an indispensable database of the military strength, organization, equipment, and defence expenditure of the world's armed forces in some 170 countries.The Military Balance 1998/99 is an indispensable database of the military strength, organization, equipment, and defe... More

‘The Maoists are patriots, by their own admission . . . India’s Maoists do not want a separate country. They already have one. It’s just not the way they would like it—yet.’ In 1967, Naxalbari, a village in West Bengal, became the centre of a Mao-inspired militant peasant uprising guided ... More

Although governance has been the focus of a considerable body of literature on democratic transitions and consolidation, data to support the claim that the concept is a useful one has been lacking. Now however, Making Sense of Governance clearly shows the utility of research on governance, presentin... More