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What Is Populism?
2017 || Paperback || Jan-Werner Muller || Penguin Books Ltd
'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway and who can speak in their name? These questions have never been more pr...
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
2021 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Crown
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric with a new afterword
A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent. Financial Times
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Boston Globe Wired Fortune Kirkus Reviews The Guardian Nature On Point
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasing...
Political Science
A Global Perspective
2021 || Paperback || Leonardo A. Morlino e.a. || SAGE
Approaching the subject from a focussed international and pluralist perspective, this book provides advanced-level treatment of all the core areas to give postgraduate students a wide-ranging and dynamic introduction
An Introduction to Middle East Politics
2020 || Paperback || Benjamin MacQueen || SAGE
This new edition of An Introduction to Middle East Politics continues to provide an expansive survey of Middle East politics, thoroughly revised and restructured in response to events currently taking place. Written in a lively and accessible manner, MacQueen takes students on a tour of the region’s modern political history up to the present, clearly signposting key events and issues.
Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts
2020 || Paperback || Evan M. Berman e.a. || CQ Press
Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, this book remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them.
Risk Management for Security Professionals
2017 || Hardcover || C. A. Roper || Butterworth-Heinemann
This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed.
Risk Management as presented in this book has several goal...
Principles of Comparative Politics (International Student Edition)
2020 || Paperback || William Roberts Clark e.a. || SAGE
This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. It also benefits from an international focus, taking into consideration nearly 200 countries.
Planning Theory
2017 || Paperback || Philip Allmendinger || Bloomsbury Publishing
In the 3rd edition of the leading introductory textbook to planning theory, Allmendinger provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of planning theories, how these relate to planning practice, and their significance. Moving away from a linear, chronological model of progress over time from one paradigm to another, Allmendinger explains how and why different theories have gained dominance in particular places at particular times, giving the reader a holistic view of the field of scholarsh...
The Government and Politics of the European Union / 8th edition
2017 || Paperback || Neill Nugent || Bloomsbury Publishing
The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 8th edition, has been thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU. Major changes, recent developments, and the crises that have befallen the union in recent times are analysed within this context. This includes eurozone crisis, the migration crisis, and the UK's decision to leave the EU.
Acclaimed author and academic Neill Nugent has written a comprehensive text, enabling students wi...
International Relations Theory
2017 || Paperback || Oliver Daddow || SAGE
With 30% new content, including a new chapter on poststructuralism, this introduction now covers everything needed to accompany a student through their IR Theory module and to be a resource that they can keep coming back to throughout their studies