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Comparative Government and Politics / 12th edition
2022 || Hardcover || Professor John McCormick || Bloomsbury Publishing
Offering a comprehensive introduction to the comparison of governments and political systems, this new edition helps students to understand not just the institutions and political cultures of their own countries but also those of a wide range of democracies and authoritarian regimes from around the world. This new edition offers:-A revised structure to aid navigation and understanding-New learning features, 'Using Theory' and 'Exploring Problems', designed to help students think comparatively...
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
The Cyberweapons Arms Race
2022 || Paperback || Nicole Perlroth || Veltman Distributie Import Books
WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021
The instant New York Times bestseller
A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year
'A terrifying exposé' The Times
'Part John le Carré . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker
We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest att...
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How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
2022 || Paperback || Barbara F. Walter || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Sunday Times Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 • New York Times Bestseller
• WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD • BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times, Esquire, Prospect
'When one of the world's leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book' Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this boo...
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Human Resource Management in Public Service
2022 || Paperback || Berman e.a. || SAGE
Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues of management in the public sector. This Seventh Edition encourages active learning for students through skill-building exercises, problem-solving tasks, and new sections on critical thinking.
European Union Politics / 7th edition
2022 || Paperback || Michelle Cini e.a. || Oxford University Press
European Union Politics is the most complete and issues-led introductory textbook on the European Union. Written by an expert team of contributors, it fully equips students to understand the European Union and the topical debates that surround it. Alongside rigorous coverage of the theory, institutions, and policies of the EU, the book engages with contemporary debates, and current crises.
The seventh edition has been substantially updated, with significantly revised chapters on Brexit and th...
Diplomacy Ends at Midnight
he Long Return of Hong Kong to China
2022 || Hardcover || Delena Wright || Allen Lane
The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handover
British Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunion with China, when its 99-year leasehold on much of the colony's territory expired. 25 years ago, Britain did not want to return Hong Kong to its once and future owner, and most Hong Kongers d...
Leadership
five Studies in World Strategy
2022 || Hardcover || Henry Kissinger || Allen Lane
Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which h...
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Implementing Public Policy
An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance
2022 || Paperback || Michael Hill e.a. || SAGE
The gold standard for navigating the literature about policy implementation and governance, this modern classic is the leading introduction to the study of implementation.
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Persuaders
2022 || Hardcover || Anand Giridharadas || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist
“Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by refusing to write others off, building more welc...
Understanding European Union Law / 8th Edition
2022 || Paperback || Karen Davies e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Providing short, clear and accessible explanations of the main areas of EU law, Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished. This eighth edition has been fully revised and updated with the latest legislative changes and includes an in-depth discussion of 'Brexit' and its implications for EU-UK relations. The book provides readers with a clear understanding of the structures and ration...