China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, Paperback - Minxin Pei

Reducere. The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, C...

Contributor(s): Author: Minxin PeiWhen Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism ...

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Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kenneth I. (Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania) Wol...

Publisher: Dedalus LtdNumber of pages: 120Collection: Dedalus Original Fiction In PaperbackPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 22Cover ty...

"Forget the edge of your seat. Last Breath takes you to the edge of your life, for a pulse-pounding glimpse into the Great Beyond. There are many w...

DescriptionTransnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones. The Limits of Transnati...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Reducere. "Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes.... Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and pos...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Marius HenteaNumber of pages: 167Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 232 x 160 x 15Cover type: HardbackRed...

Presenting a critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, the author, one of the greatest philosophers of his generation, reorients ethical theory t...

Reducere. Demystifying an unrealistic ideal Maria Mayo questions the contemporary idealization of unconditional forgiveness in three areas of contemporary li...

Over recent years, a series of challenges including Brexit and the rise of Euroscepticism, have manifested in landmark moments for European integra...

Reducere. Pretty Oklahoma teenager Helen Nichols accepts an invitation from her cousin, rising movie actress Ginger Rogers, and her Aunt Lela, to try her luc...

Confessional poetry, romans a clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave Romantic-era readers exceptional access to well-known authors. B...

A new edition of the important work of philosophy from the late Williams. With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear and commentary on the text by A.W. M...

Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls. In the ...

Reducere. Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated tha...

Assessing the effectiveness of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), this book examines the operation of the core institution...

This book investigates the interplay between China's social, economic, and educational policy changes, its rural households and urban communities, ...

Reducere. No winners, no losers, and no end the Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is no ordinary computer game. Created by British mathematician John ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Chandaria family--emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi--have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doc...

DescriptionNot Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This ...

Leading South Asia expert Bhumitra Chakma explains the politics of regionalism in South Asia and traces the origins and evolution of the South Asia...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an exper...

The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and develop...

China faces increasing economic headwinds that call into question not only its near-term growth outlook but the longer-term sustainability of its e...

Reducere. Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Followi...

DescriptionThe United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated alo...

DescriptionPhilosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism--either a radical separation of mind and bod...

"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China.... It will set...