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  • Trembling In The Ivory Tower: Excesses In The Pursuit Of Truth And Tenure

    by Kenneth Lasson ...
    In this gem of a book, scholar and wit Kenneth Lasson takes on all manner of excesses in the Ivory Tower which, from his insider's viewpoint, constitute little less than a full-scale assault on American values and mores. The ideological warfare is being waged by a slew of vociferous academicians whose predominance is manifested by stifling academic bureaucracies, radical feminist and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Nine

    Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Why Liberalism? How our Sense of Empathy and Fairness Determines our Political Orientation

    by Eric Balkan ...
    Think your political opinions are the result of carefully reasoned thought? Think that everyone would agree with you if they just weren't so clueless? Think again! Big government vs small government, free market vs a regulated market, individual freedom vs group benefits, conservative vs liberal.... Political controversies sound like they're based on differences in philosophy or ideology or maybe ... Read more

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  • The New Harvest

    Agricultural Innovation in Africa

    by Calestous Juma ...
    African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa faces three major opportunities that can transform its agriculture into a force for economic growth: advances in science and technology; the creation of regional markets; and the emergence of a new crop of entrepreneurial leaders ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance

    by Anthony Michael Bertelli ...
    In The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, Anthony Michael Bertelli introduces core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy. Though recent literature that mathematically models relationships between politicians and public managers provides insight into contemporary public administration, the technical way these works present information limits ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Brazil Is Not for Amateurs

    Patterns of Governance in the Land of "Jeitinho"

    by Belmiro V. J. Castor ...
    Who should read this book? I cant imagine anyone who would not enjoy and benefit from this insightful overview. Obviously, those with current or future business interests in Brazil should read it, as should anyone planning a visit. Students and scholars interested in the politics, governance or administration of any country, would benefit enormously from studying Belmiros objective and skeptical ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Achieving Regulatory Excellence

    by Jim Ellis ...
    Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.Operating within a political climate of competing demands, regulators need a lodestar to help them define and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Practical Neo4j

    by Gregory Jordan ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Why have developers at places like Facebook and Twitter increasingly turned to graph databases to manage their highly connected big data? The short answer is that graphs offer superior speed and flexibility to get the job done.It’s time you added skills in graph databases to your toolkit. In Practical Neo4j, database expert Greg Jordan guides you through the background and basics of graph ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability

    Edited by Mark Bovens, Robert E. Goodin, Thomas Schillemans ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range of social and administrative sciences. This handbook provides a state of the art overview of recent scholarship on public accountability. It collects, consolidates, and integrates an upsurge of inquiry ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The State as Cultural Practice

    by Mark Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes ...
    The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Business Information Systems Workshops

    BIS 2016 International Workshops, Leipzig, Germany, July 6-8, 2016, Revised Papers

    Edited by Witold Abramowicz, Rainer Alt, Bogdan Franczyk ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book constitutes revised papers from the six workshops held at the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2016, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016.The workshops included in this volume are:* The 8th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business - AKTB2016 accepted 7 papers from 14 submissions and features 1 invited talk.* The 7th Workshop ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • China's Rise to Power

    Conceptions of State Governance

    Edited by J. Lee, L. Nedilsky, S. Cheung ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD