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  • The Special Relationship

    The History of American Football in the United Kingdom

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    The Special Relationship: The History of American Football in the United Kingdom charts the arrival and development of gridiron football on this side of the Atlantic. This comprehensive account presents the story across three key sections, outlining how and why the sport became so popular in Britain - from the first match at Crystal Palace back in 1910 to the birth of the incredibly popular ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics and Fate

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate. However, there is now a deep pessimism about the ability of human beings to control anything very much, least of all through politics. This new fatalism about the human condition claims that we are living in the iron cages erected by vast impersonal forces arising from globalization and technology: ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Politics

    Why It Matters

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    Series series Why It Matters
    People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and positive change.Politics, Andrew Gamble reminds us, defeated slavery and secured equal rights for women and minorities. Without savvy and principled politicians and citizens willing to engage in ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Can the Welfare State Survive?

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    Series series Global Futures
    After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state is seen as a burden on wealth creation which can no longer be afforded in an ever more competitive global economy. There are calls for it to be ... Read more

    $11.00 USD

  • The Western Ideology and Other Essays

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    ‘Capitalism may be teetering once again on the edge of a terminal crisis, but there are no gravediggers in sight. This time around not only arethere no gravediggers there are no longer any rival economic systems either …’In ‘The Western Ideology’ Andrew Gamble demonstrates the contradictions and the resilience of the doctrines that define liberal modernity, andexamines the contemporary ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Hayek

    The Iron Cage of Liberty

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He has also been much misunderstood. His work has crossed disciplines - economics, philosophy and political science - and national boundaries. He was an early critic of Keynes, and became famous in the 1940s for his warnings that the advance of collectivism in western democracies was the road to serfdom. He was a key figure ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • After Brexit and Other Essays

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    ‘Being more like America again and less like Europe is the heart of the UK model of capitalism … [but] there are many respects in which Britain remains unlike America despite its strong appeal to the British political class ...’In 'After Brexit' Andrew Gamble sets out the economic models and external relationships that Britain has pursued since the Second World War and examines the choices it now ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Crisis Without End?

    The Unravelling of Western Prosperity

    by Professor Andrew Gamble ...
    This major re-assessment by a leading political economist shows that the 2008 financial crash was no ordinary crisis, but the harbinger of a much deeper convulsion comparable to the major past crises of capitalism. While it is still uncertain whether it will become a transformative crisis for the international order, what we do know already is that:- While the crash particularly affected western ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Open Left

    The Future of Progressive Politics

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    The ten years since the financial crash have been lean years for progressive politics of all kinds. Now Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US, and the rising tide of national populism in Europe pose new dangers. Parties of the Centre-Left are in retreat. Old bases of support have declined, old policies are out of touch, old assumptions no longer hold.At the same time new thinking, new innovations, new ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Conservative Nation (Routledge Revivals)

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Since the 1880s, the Conservative Party has been an important political force in Britain. In this study of Conservative ideology since the end of Second World War, first published in 1974, Andrew Gamble considers the nature of Conservative party opinion, and the factors that have accounted for its success. The adaptation of the party post-1945 is discussed, as well as the ascendancy of the Right ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Protein Modelling

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    In this volume, a detailed description of cutting-edge computational methods applied to protein modeling as well as specific applications are presented. Chapters include: the application of Car-Parrinello techniques to enzyme mechanisms, the outline and application of QM/MM methods, polarizable force fields, recent methods of ligand docking, molecular dynamics related to NMR spectroscopy, computer ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Limits of Politics

    An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 23 April 2008

    by Andrew Gamble ...
    This lecture explores the limits of politics in three senses: as a subject of study at Cambridge, as an academic discipline, and as a practical activity. Politics did not develop as an independent academic subject in Cambridge in the twentieth century, and only now is this situation being rectified with the creation of the new Department of Politics and International Studies. Politics as an ... Read more

    $12.79 USD