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  • Why Immigration Policy Is Hard

    And How to Make It Better

    by Alan Manning ...
    Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning – former chair of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do much better.We should start, Manning says, by ditching simplistic views that frame immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad. We will always have, and need, some level of immigration. But, just ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Father Lincoln

    The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Boys--Robert, Eddy, Willie, and Tad

    by Alan Manning ...
    President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him. But that was not how his sons knew him. Presidential historian Alan Manning invites readers to see not the thoughtful, burdened president delivering the Gettysburg Address to a war-torn nation, but a man quietly reading bedtime stories to his sleepy-eyed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Unified Theory of Information Design

    Visuals, Text and Ethics

    by Nicole Amare, Alan Manning ...
    Series series Baywood's Technical Communications
    Communicative visuals, including written text, have a diverse range of forms and purposes. In this volume, the authors show that it is possible to both describe and explain the major properties of diverse visual-communication forms and purposes within a common theoretical framework of information design and ethics. For those unaccustomed to thinking of written text as a visual form belonging to ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

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    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Manfred B. Steger, Ravi K. Roy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How Migration Really Works

    The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

    by Hein de Haas ...
    An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap).As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering. But what are the facts behind the headlines?Drawing on three decades of research, migration expert Hein de ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Political System of the European Union

    by Simon Hix, Bjørn Høyland ...
    Series series The European Union Series
    Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political science to understand how the EU works, this text covers each of the main processes in the EU political system - executive, legislative and judicial ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • About Canada: Immigration

    by Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade ...
    Series Book 4 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • International Organisations and Global Problems

    Theories and Explanations

    by Susan Park ...
    International organisations (IOs) are considered fundamental in addressing global problems, but how effective are they? Conflict (war), human rights, global health, financial governance, international trade, regionalisation, development and the environment are all issues that international organisations have been created to address. This book looks at these eight key issue areas and guides the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • What's Wrong with Rights?

    Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

    by Radha D'Souza ...
    Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World, their experiences of national liberation and socialism and their aspirations for emancipation ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Megacity Malaise

    by Carlo Fanelli ...
    “[A] political economist with a gift– due to his not having forgotten his working class background– for bringing complex economic problems down to their real world implications for working people.” - Jeff NoonanMegacity Malaise documents how municipal governance, labour-management relations and public services have been transformed during the postwar period. Carlo Fanelli begins with an analysis ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Modern Migration Theory

    An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy

    by Prof. Peo Hansen ...
    Series series Comparative Political Economy
    2023 EUSA Book Award - Honorable MentionCurrent migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A “fact” that justifies increasingly restrictive asylum policies. Peo Hansen shows that this consensual cost-perspective on migration is built on a flawed economic conception of the orthodox “sound ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus