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Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously
Contemporary Theories and Applications
2011 || Paperback || Kam-por Yu e.a. || State University of New York Press
This thought-provoking work presents Confucianism as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance. While acknowledged as one of the world's most influential philosophies, Confucianism's significance is too often consigned to a historical or solely East Asian context. Discussing both the strengths and weaknesses of Confucian ethics, the volume's contributors reflect on what this tradition offers that we cannot readily learn from other systems of ethics. Developing Confucian ethical i...
Intercultural Sensitivity / Druk 5
From denial to intercultural competence
2021 || Paperback || C. Nunez e.a. || Koninklijke Van Gorcum || met inkijkexemplaar
Through internationalisation programmes, millions of students spend part of their studies at universities abroad every year. Lecturer mobility programmes are bringing international lecturers straight to local classrooms. With migration, labour mobility and student mobility, classrooms and lecture halls have grown more culturally diverse than ever before.
Intercultural Sensitivity gives students a head start in working with lecturers and fellow students, and to excel in their future internati...
Policy Paradox / 3rd edition
The Art of Political Decision Making
2012 || Paperback || Deborah Stone || WW Norton & Co
Policy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seemingly straightforward policy decisions, Policy Paradox shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of "rationality." Author Deborah Stone has fully revised and updated this popular text, which now includes many paradoxes that have arisen since September 11. Examples throughout the book have been updated, and the prose has been streamlined to make a great ...
The Political Speechwriter's Companion
A Guide for Writers and Speakers
2019 || Paperback || Robert A. Lehrman e.a. || CQ Press
Can you really learn to write speeches? The Political Speechwriter's Companion guides students through a systematic "LAWS" approach (language, anecdote, wit, and support) that politicians can use to persuade their audiences into taking action. In the highly anticipated Second Edition, esteemed speechwriter and author Robert A. Lehrman has teamed up with one of the "go-to-guys" for political humor, Eric Schnure, to offer students an entertaining yet practical introduction to political speechwr...
On Writing Well
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
2016 || Paperback || William Zinsser || HarperCollins
"On Writing Well is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." New York Times
A beloved classic, this definitive volume on the art of writing nonfiction celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.
On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get thro...
Global Economic History
A Very Short Introduction
2011 || Paperback || Robert C. Allen || Oxford University Press
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of globalization.
Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club ofrich nations by pursuing fou...
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Public Administration / 1st edition (rev.)
Concepts and Cases
2023 || Paperback || Murat Onder e.a. || Springer
This handbook discusses different countries' bureaucratic, institutional, constitutional, reforms and governance system. It analyses the legislative and policy making processes and applications, local structures and functions of public administration in a given country. It presents the comparative aspects of public administration across the globe with recent developments in the field.
Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
Freedom in a Fishbowl
2020 || Paperback || Ratna Kapur || Edward Elgar
'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an indispensable volume for all who ar...
How Mediation Works
Theory, Research, and Practice
2022 || Paperback || Stephen B. Goldberg || Emerald Publishing Limited || ook als eBook
How Mediation Works will introduce management and law students as well as businesses to this art of conflict resolution from the behavioral perspective, while also providing a valuable resource to continuing education programs, mediation training, and lawyers to familiarize clients with the mediation process.
Essentials of International Relations / 9th edition
2021 || Paperback || Karen A. Mingst e.a. || WW Norton & Co
With a new chapter on the environment, and extensive coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and global health, Heather McKibben continues to enliven Karen Mingst's classic, concise text. Refined and expanded InQuizitive activities help students learn, retain and apply key concepts to real-world events. Plus, new biweekly News Analysis activities help students apply the main theories of the text to contemporary real-world examples they would encounter in the media.