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  • Ruin and Renewal

    Civilizing Europe After World War II

    by Paul Betts ...
    Winner of the American Philosophical Society’s 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryFrom an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of Europe after the depravity of World War II.In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Some fifty million people were dead, and millions more languished in physical and moral disarray. The devastation of World War II was unprecedented in character as well as in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain

    A Genealogy

    by Paul Betts ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised. Inspired by the insights of Michel Foucault into power-knowledge, governmentality and institutional reform over time, this book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of EBP in Britain as well as original discourse analysis ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Refuge

    Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World

    by Paul Collier, Alexander Betts ...
    Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reversing Europe’s Gaze

    Perceptions of Power & the Power of Perceptions

    Edited by Olivier de France, Paul Betts, Timothy Garton Ash, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Kalypso Nicolaidis ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume uncovers fresh perspectives and compelling new data about how Europe is perceived beyond its borders. Much of the literature on the EU and international relations tends to follow elites and policymakers in looking from the top down and from the inside out. The enquiry attempts a double reversal of the gaze: it probes Europe from the outside in, and from the bottom up. It explores how ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Socialism Goes Global

    The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation

    Edited by James Mark, Paul Betts ...
    This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of the post-1945 period, when socialism's importance as a globalising force accelerated and drew together what contemporaries called the 'Second' and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Marcus Colla, Paul Betts ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from international scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism, the book includes examples from China, Africa, Mongolia, Eastern Europe and the USSR. The volume reflects on how developments in the ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Counterblasting Canada

    Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson

    Edited by Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, Kristine Smitka ...
    In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of the magazine Blast, McLuhan’s subsequent Counterblast, and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Pacemakers and ICDs

    Edited by Jonathan Timperley, Paul Leeson, Andrew RJ Mitchell, Timothy Betts ...
    Series series Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Cardiology
    Comprehensive, yet practical and concise, the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Pacemakers and ICDs is the ideal training guide on how to implant, follow-up, and troubleshoot pacemakers and ICDs. Fully updated to include new technologies such as subcutaneous ICDs and MRI compatible devices, this new edition provides the latest guidelines and management strategies for the cardiology trainee and cardiac ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe

    Edited by Paul Betts, Stephen A. Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied discretely as separate stories. Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe is the first ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

    The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

    Edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in German History
    Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Ethics of Seeing

    Photography and Twentieth-Century German History

    Edited by Jennifer Evans, Paul Betts, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ...
    Series Book 21 - Studies in German History
    Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Refuge

    Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World

    by Paul Collier, Alexander Betts ...
    Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook