African Politics: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Ian Taylor

Africa is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that...

Journalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time sin...

In A Very Short Introduction to Politics, Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising from a historical account of politics, and goe...

Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, ...

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The nature of politics in Britain is being questioned as never before, with Brexit throwing both party and national politics into turmoil. Here, To...

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Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations ab...

Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as mi...

2nd edition. Offers a clear introduction to the core ideas of Marx's philosophy and thinking, with a new chapter showing how they can be applied to...

Secularism, the belief that religion should not be part of the affairs of the state or part of public education, is an increasingly hot topic in gl...

Provides an informative, analytical and comprehensive overview of the economic grouping: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Napoleon. Bill Gates. George W. Bush. Osama bin Laden. Leaders and leadership are perennial topics of debate. What is leadership? How does one beco...

Reducere. After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progre...

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attenti...

Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering a...

There are many debates about what constitutes a utopia. Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or her...

Anthony Pereira introduces the country and idea of Brazil, from its depiction in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, to Brazil's colonial past, and the ...

Engles' was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of history and science in many communist count...

Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for proble...

In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating...

James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the lit...

Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the publish...

This book gives an overview of the main kinds of employment rights and labour laws found in many countries. It evaluates some of the assumptions un...

Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a politi...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Sarah M. S. (Professor of History, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University) PearsallIllustr...

Pippa Virdee considers the history of Pakistan, created as a new nation state in 1947, placing it in the context of the region's four-thousand-year...

Drawing on examples from across the globe and throughout history, Andrew Kahn explores the key characteristics of the short story. He shows how its...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): David (Charles M. Weis Professor of English, Charles M. Weis Professor of English, Ohio Wesleyan U...

For many decades, we were only familiar with our own system of planets, the Solar System, orbiting our Sun. Now we know that it is just one among a...