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  • Hospice Palliative Home Care and Bereavement Support

    Nursing Interventions and Supportive Care

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides an unique resource for registered nurses working in hospice palliative care at home and for the community, outside of acute care settings and also incorporates literature related to palliative care in acute health care settings, as part of the overall services and supports required. Very few resources exist which specifically address hospice palliative care in the home setting, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Korea versus Korea

    A Case of Contested Legitimacy

    by Barry Gills ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This study traces the historic course of diplomatic competition between the rival Koreas within the context of a changing international system. This innovative analysis focuses on the dynamic interaction of domestic and international political economies and their effects on the conduct of diplomacy. The result is a new interpretation of the importance of adaptability in determining success in ... Read more

    Was $64.99 USD Now $57.99 USD

  • The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This book critically engages with a central dilemma facing counter-hegemonic movements as global crises intensify: how to foster systemic change while maintaining the plurality of their struggles. The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future explores the tensions between fragmentation and convergence, autonomy and solidarity, and the risks of ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • From Spitfire to Focke Wulf

    The Diary and Log Book of Pilot H. Leonard Thorne, 1940-45

    'I hold the greatest respect for Len for what he achieved in the RAF.' – Gordon Mitchell, son of Spitfire designer R.J. MitchellIn May 1940, 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF, as did many young men during the Second World War. After two hectic tours of operational duty as a fighter pilot, including some desperately dangerous low-level flying at Dunkirk, he was posted to AFDU (Air Fighting ... Read more

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  • Around the World in 80 Species

    Exploring the Business of Extinction

    Edited by Jill Atkins, Barry Atkins ...
    The world is currently experiencing a sixth period of mass species extinction, and extinction of flora and fauna is caused by a variety of factors arising from industrial activity and increasing human population, such as global warming, climate change, habitat loss, pollution and use of pesticides. Most causes of extinction are linked to corporate activity, either directly or indirectly.Around the ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The World System

    Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

    The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the economic 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period but Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills think that this date is much too late. They argue an interconnection going back as much as 5000 years. In The World System, leading ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Business of Bees

    An Integrated Approach to Bee Decline and Corporate Responsibility

    Edited by Jill Atkins, Barry Atkins ...
    Our bee populations are under threat. Over the past 60 years, they have lost much of their natural habitat and are under assault from pesticides and intensive farming. We rely on bees and other insects to pollinate our fruit and vegetables and, without them, our environment and economy will be in crisis.The Business of Bees provides the first integrated account of diminishing bee populations, as ... Read more

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  • Post-Covid Transformations

    Edited by Kevin Gray, Barry K. Gills ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation. Towards this aim, the contributing authors raise a number of key questions. First, what is likely to be the impact of the pandemic on the current global order based on neoliberal ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • World System History

    The Social Science of Long-Term Change

    This extraordinary book presents a refreshing and innovative overview of the changes to the global system over the last 5000 years. Featuring renowned contributors - each specialists in their field - this is the only volume to offer so co-ordinated a study of continuity and change in the global social, economic and political system. Key areas covered include: * International Political Economy - ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Economics and Climate Emergency

    Edited by Barry Gills, Jamie Morgan ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the beginning of policy on climate change. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Global Politics of Globalization

    Empire vs Cosmopolis

    Edited by Barry K. Gills ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Are we moving inexorably towards a ‘new empire’ or is global civil society transforming global politics into a ‘new cosmopolis’?In The Global Politics of Globalization, the alternatives of ‘Empire’ and ‘Cosmopolis’ are counter-poised as representative of two antithetical conceptions and practices of world order, both historically and in the present era, and each expresses an alternative idea of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD