Jacob T. Levy - The Multiculturalism of Fear (2006).jpg
This vital new liberal account of multiculturalism combines an analysis of the policy dilemmas faced by multiethnic states around the world with a philosophical consideration of multiculturalism and nationalism. Jacob T. Levy boldly argues that liberalism should not ...
F. Cairncross - The Legacy of the Golden Age.jpg
From the perspective of the 1990s, the 1960s seem to have been a golden age for economics. National income was growing even faster than in the 1950s, unemployment remained at about 2% of the labor force, and inflation was at 4% for most of the decade. The long boom that had begun ...
Nancy Billias - Promoting and Producing Evil (2010).jpg
The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production and promotion of evil. The authors encourage the reader to be challenged, ...
Bob Brecher - The New Order of War (2004).jpg
Far from heralding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of "actually existing communism" served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying. What is controversial, however, is how we might understand and respond to these new ...
G. Phillips - The Rise of the Labour Party 1893-1931 (1992).jpg
The Rise of the Labour Party 1893-1931 provides a brief history of the Labour Party, from its foundation to the collapse of the second Labour government during the financial crisis of 1931. It is designed to introduce students to some of the trends and controversies in recent ...
Eric Shaw - The Labour Party Since 1979.jpg
When Neil Kinnock assumed leadership of the Labour Party in 1983, he inherited a divided organization, saddled with an array of unpopular left-wing policies. When he resigned in 1992, Labour was a radically different party, tightly organized and committed to working ...
Michael North - Machine-Age Comedy (2008).jpg
In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age ...
Margaret Moore - The Ethics of Nationalism (2001).jpg
Blending a philosophical discussion of the ethical merits and limits of nationalism, a detailed understanding of nationalist aspirations, and a variety of national conflict zones, this outstanding book discusses the controversial and contemporary issues of rights of ...
Ted Sun - Inside the Chinese Business Mind.jpg
Inside the Chinese Business Mind: A Tactical Guide for Managers focuses on helping Western business leaders and managers get an understanding of the core values and beliefs that drive business in China. It is a perfect tool for helping business people gain insights into the ...
Diego Gambetta - Making Sense of Suicide Missions (2005).jpg
Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence of our age. From New York City to Baghdad, from Sri Lanka to Israel, few can doubt that they are a pervasive and terrifying feature of our political landscape. Based on a wealth of original information and ...
Brian Massumi - A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia.jpg
A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the ...
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This book presents an overview of the changes brought about in Third World countries since the end of the Cold War. The themes chosen by the editors--economics, politics, security--are broadly interpreted so as to encompass the major areas of change among Third World ...
Gote Hansson - Trade.jpg
Since the end of World War II, the economic gap between rich and poor countries has increased steadily. Trade, Growth and Development examines this disparity and assesses the reasons why some developing countries have been more economically successful than others. The ...
Aubrey Manning - Animals and Human Society. Changing Perspectives (1994).jpg
Why do animals provoke such strong and contradictory emotions in people? Do our western attitudes have anything in common with those of other cultures and societies? As modern society begins to re/examine its relationship with animals, as well as the larger global ...
Yijie Tang - Confucianism- Buddhism- Daoism- Christianity- and Chinese culture (1991).jpg
The papers reflect the current trend to relate the different cultures of each nationality, country and region within a broader global culture. In such a situation an understanding of Chinese culture becomes especially important.
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Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks. As the age of the euro reaches its 10th anniversary, it is timely to reflect on what it means for central banks, which have been at the forefront of the establishment of Economic ...
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo - Central Eurasia In Global Politics (2005).jpg
This anthology brings together studies of post-colonial, post-Cold War Central Eurasia. This part of the world is in transition from Soviet institutions to independent statehood, nation building, resistance against state expansion, cultural change and the release of ...
