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  • Who Enters Politics and Why?

    Basic Human Values in the UK Parliament

    by James Weinberg ...
    Exploring unique survey and interview data on the personality characteristics of British politicians, this book provides a timely psychological analysis of those individuals who pursue political careers and how they represent their constituents once elected.Focusing specifically on the Basic Human Values of more than 150 MPs as well as hundreds of local councillors, Weinberg offers original ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Governing in an Age of Distrust

    A Comparative Study of Politicians' Trust Perceptions and Why They Matter

    by Dr James Weinberg ...
    Despite the existence of a large literature on themes relating to trust and distrust in politics, there has been no sustained research that directly engages with the primary objects of trust: politicians. This is an intriguing blind spot in political science that leaves us without any understanding of how politicians appraise a contemporary climate of extreme or generalised distrust or indeed how ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Whose Government Is It?

    The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation

    by Pat Conaty, James Weinberg, Barry Quirk, Hazel Blears, Carol Packham, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek, Marjorie Mayo, Jane Roberts, Matthew Flinders, James Sloam, Marian Barnes, Marilyn Taylor, Graham Smith, David Blunkett, Simon Burall, Anna Coote, Nick Pearce ...
    This book brings together leading figures in democratic reform and civic engagement to show why and how better state-citizen cooperation is necessary for achieving positive social change. Their contributions demonstrate that, while protest and non-state action may have their place, citizens must also work effectively with public bodies to secure sustainable improvements.The authors explain why the ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • SQL The Complete Reference, 3rd Edition

    by Andy Oppel, Paul N. Weinberg, James R. Groff ...
    Series series The Complete Reference
    The Definitive Guide to SQLGet comprehensive coverage of every aspect of SQL from three leading industry experts. Revised with coverage of the latest RDBMS software versions, this one-stop guide explains how to build, populate, and administer high-performance databases and develop robust SQL-based applications.SQL: The Complete Reference, Third Edition shows you how to work with SQL commands and ... Read more

    $52.59 USD

  • Adaptive Oncogenesis

    A New Understanding of How Cancer Evolves inside Us

    by James DeGregori ...
    Popular understanding holds that genetic changes create cancer. James DeGregori uses evolutionary principles to propose a new way of thinking about cancer’s occurrence. Cancer is as much a disease of evolution as it is of mutation, one in which mutated cells outcompete healthy cells in the ecosystem of the body’s tissues. His theory ties cancer’s progression, or lack thereof, to evolved strategies ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Everything and Nothing

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Translated by Donald A. Yates, John M. Fein, Eliot Weinberger, James Irby ...
    Series series New Directions Pearls
    A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling ... Read more

    $9.39 USD