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Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

This book explores Russia’s relations with Latvia arguing that Latvia with a higher proportion of Russian speakers than other Baltic states is especially vulnerable to Russia’s “sharp power”. The book highlights how authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are unable to exercise soft power based on the attractiveness of the country's culture and values which would help them gain the favour of the audience of the target countries but instead as in the case of Russia use public diplomacy compatriot policy media policy propaganda and disinformation to produce a destructive effect distorting the democracies of target countries and increasing national security risks. The book provides in-depth detail on how Russia is making use of this “sharp power” in Latvia examines the consequences and assesses the dangers for the future. | Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

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China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

This volume explains China’s foreign policy from the perspective of its historical recovery after 1949 and the country’s subsequent rise as a great power including its transformation into a global power. It also illuminates how China has in tandem with its rise developed an increasing array of political economic ‘sharp power’ and military capabilities that is helping it to further its increasingly expansive foreign policy objectives. The volume examines two key questions: What have been the implications of China’s rise for its foreign policy? And how has an increasingly powerful and confident China used a range of foreign policy instruments to pursue its expanding national interests in Asia and beyond? The volume is divided into three parts covering the conceptualization and drivers of China’s foreign policy China’s relations with the world and the instruments of China’s foreign policy namely its economic power military capabilities and its ‘sharp power’ manipulation of information and relationships. It will be of interest to academics students and researchers interested in understanding China’s role in world politics. | China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

GBP 130.00

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Industrialization and Development in the Third World

Developing countries have undergone significant industrialization in the last three decades. Yet industrial growth reveals marked spatial inequalities in terms of both country and location. The Newly Industrialised Countries have achieved spectacular growth in sharp contrast to many other countries of the South. Industrial structure has changed moving away from labour intensive industries to more technologically advanced manufacturing. Developing countries have had considerable success in penetrating developed country markets but they are now encountering more market restrictions. The role of the government in the development of the economy is also changing. Increasingly countries are turning towards export-orientated industrialization strategies and privatization whilst their governments are emphasising their facilitative role. | Industrialization and Development in the Third World

GBP 160.00

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Education Accountability An Analytic Overview

First published in 1986 Education Accountability is a critique of writing on accountability and evaluation with respect to education and its various stakeholders. The author applies frameworks drawn from the theory of knowledge social psychology and social policy demonstrating how different assumptions about the nature of schooling curriculum control and development can give rise to various forms of political control of which education accountability is a special and important case. This sharp book will be valuable reading for all advanced students of education whether interested in curriculum or educational administration as well as to students of political science social policy and evaluation studies teacher trainers administrators and educational researchers. | Education Accountability An Analytic Overview

GBP 89.99

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Necessary But Not Sufficient A Theory of Constraints Business Novel

After reading the newspapers and following the sharp oscillations of the stock market it becomes apparent that hi-tech companies are of a different breed. Never before have the chances of making a fortune been so realistic and never before have large companies been so fragile. What is really going on inside these hi-tech companies? What types of pressures and challenges are they facing? And how do they cope? Computer software providers especially the ones that specialise in handling the data needs of organizations are prime examples of these volatile companies. In the nineties we witnessed their growth from small businesses into multi-billion dollar giants. No wonder investors were attracted. In 1998 it was easy for such companies to raise as much money as they wanted. But now investment funds have dried up. Why? And more importantly is there a way to reverse the trend? This book gives the answers. | Necessary But Not Sufficient A Theory of Constraints Business Novel

GBP 175.00

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A Preface to Marlowe

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays Tamburlaine Edward II The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a full discussion of The Massacre at Paris Dido Queen of Carthage and all his extant poetry. Analysis of Faustus takes full account of both A and B text versions. Thoroughly researched and yet presented in an accessible engaging style A Preface to Marlowe reads Marlowe's life and times as well as his work in the light of current critical theory. Consequently it is a vital guide for all students of early modern drama. As well as providing sharp analysis of stage history Dr Simkin reflects on the wider significance of a stage-oriented approach. The result is a reading of Marlowe that re-opens debates about his status as a radical figure and as a subversive playwright and invites the reader to experience the plays as immediate exciting 'live' documents.

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Grandparents/Grandchildren The Vital Connection

In this book Kornhaber and Woodward explore the vital connections that link generations to each other and expose a new social contract that destroys the emotional bonds between grandparents and grandchildren. This is the first book that reviews in a careful ethnographic manner the relationship of grandchildren to grandparents and the place of love at one end and abandonment at the other by grandparents. The authors probe the deep unexplored emotional histories of hundreds of grandparents: how they feel about themselves their grandchildren and their loss of function within today's nuclear family. With sharp increases in the number of broken families and working mothers grandparents are more vital than ever and also more available than ever. This basic research document shows how grandparents recover their natural role as elders of the family and of society. The authors' basic premise is that to exist is to be connected and that no matter how grandparents act they affect the emotional well-being of their grandchildren for better or for worse simply because they exist. | Grandparents/Grandchildren The Vital Connection

GBP 130.00

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Nuclear Power in the Developing World

Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries. The sharp oil price rises of the 1970s attracted widespread attention to nuclear power as an alternative energy source while some developing countries began attaining the technological ability to develop nuclear weapons programmes. While the search for energy should not be thwarted the quest for nuclear weapons should not be promoted. The tension between these two goals has often led to confused export policies in the nuclear supplier nations. The author attacks this confusion at its source by examining first-hand the motives which drive nuclear policies in the developing world. He explores how security and economic objectives domestic policies and foreign influence shape nuclear policies enriching his analysis with examples from South American African and Asian experiences. This volume also takes into account those without active nuclear programmes to better understand how such programmes are born. This approach demonstrates that countries such as India Pakistan and Argentina entertain different priorities from countries such as Brazil Taiwan and the Philippines in promoting nuclear power.

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Social Amnesia A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance - society's own past. In this book Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what is perpetually lost under the pressure of society. It is simultaneously a critique of present practices and theories in psychology. Jacoby's new self-evaluation has the same sharp edge as the book itself offering special insights into the evolution of psychological theory during the past two decades. In his probing self-critical new introduction Jacoby maintains that any serious appraisal of psychology or sociology or any discipline must seek to separate the political from the theoretical. He discusses how in the years since Social Amnesia was first published society has oscillated from extreme subjectivism to extreme objectivism which feed off each other and constitute two forms of social amnesia: a forgetting of the past and a pseudo-historical consciousness. Social Amnesia contains a forceful argument for thinking against the grain - an endeavor that remains as urgent as ever. It is an important work for sociologists psychologists and psychoanalysts. | Social Amnesia A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

GBP 130.00

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Theorising Public Pedagogy The Educative Agent in the Public Realm

Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy. Karen Charman and Mary Dixon offer a new theorisation of the public a term at the heart of debate in the field heightened in this post-truth era by the COVID-19 pandemic the rise of fake news and the technological reconfigurations of public life. The new theorization addresses the ‘public’ ‘pedagogy’ and their confluence in ‘public pedagogy’. The book explores a deep engagement with the architecture and dynamics of pedagogy and argues for the positioning of pedagogy with the public. The authors contribute to a theorisation that re-considers the individual and their capacity for agency within the public realm. The book presents knowledge and pedagogical encounters as key elements of public pedagogy and most significantly the educative agent as a means of critically rethinking social life and learning in public spaces. Presenting an innovative theoretical approach this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of public and critical pedagogy and postgraduate students in education cultural studies and politics. | Theorising Public Pedagogy The Educative Agent in the Public Realm

GBP 130.00

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Hegemony and the Politics of Labour Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics capitalism and discourse: how can labour relations and value production be understood as discursive processes? When they launched their poststructuralist discourse theory almost 40 years ago Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe positioned the contingency of discourse and politics in sharp contrast to the deterministic tendencies of the Marxist critique of capitalism. Moving beyond Marxism as an essentialist ‘other’ discourse theory has since remained notoriously silent on questions related to the core workings of capitalism. This book is the first to bring the central categories of discourse theory into conversation with Marx’s critique of political economy. Reintegrating both traditions it argues that the social relations of labour in capitalism emerge as a hegemonic formation. Its contribution is to extend the reach of discourse theory to the capitalist economy exploring how a post- Marxist account of labour value and class connects to the contingent politics of populism. Hegemony and the Politics of Labour is an original and important contribution to the fields of discourse theory and critique of political economy. | Hegemony and the Politics of Labour Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

GBP 130.00

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The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

As with many people-oriented initiatives employee engagement remains an emerging science with as many advocates as detractors. In The Culture Builders Jane Sparrow shares the insight of her research and experience into how companies are creating an engaged workforce. Along the way she looks at the evidence the case for engagement and how organizations are measuring and defining it. Having an engagement strategy is merely a first step and so the book explores how to enable the manager-as-engager. Alongside the practical models and the guidance there are stories and examples from leaders and organizations allowing you to learn amongst other things about the strong sense of purpose felt in John Lewis Partnership; the importance Innocence places on values; how Sony has used visual metaphors to give context and strategic direction and how MGM Resorts targets engagement strategies to the needs of specific employee groups. The need for sustained employee performance has been put into sharp focus in recent years. The Culture Builders is a book that provides the theory and practice to connect employee engagement to long-term performance. Simply reading it won‘t guarantee that performance. Reading it learning and applying the lessons it offers will dramatically improve your chances. | The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

GBP 175.00

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The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University is a lucid comprehensive analysis of the rationale principles and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four sharp carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the myth of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for a radical reconstruction based on a social contract that would place ultimate authority in the hands of the faculty and students. The book concludes with a series of practical proposals for Utopian reform including such provocative recommendations as a variable-length ungraded undergraduate program and elimination of the Ph. D. degree. In his introduction to this new edition Wolff expands upon his original speculations to argue in substantive detail for the liberating potential of the liberal arts. Drawing upon Freud and Marcuse Wolff proposes that literature art and philosophy embody a promise of gratification that engenders a negative critique of the social and cultural status quo. The rationale for the liberal arts university is society's need for a reservoir of critical thinking that is the motor of social economic and political progress. Elegantly written and passionately argued; The Ideal of the University is essential reading for educators and sociologists.

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The Transfer of Knowledge through Art and Visualization Novel Technologies Professional Collaboration and Visual Communication of Science

This book offers strategies for the transfer of knowledge through combining information technology and visual arts and examining how to visually enhance and convey knowledge. Specifically it presents a fresh look at how technology-based science-inspired projects can be innovatively delivery through artistic methods. It explores a selection of inventions gained through the collaboration of internationalist professionals in various fields of knowledge before outlining a new approach in how knowledge can be delivered using the inventions in a novel visual way through action-based visual storytelling video graphical display and visualization. Crucially it looks at how current media and techniques used for presenting topics in industries corporations commerce and marketing companies could be successfully translated and developed as a presentation skill in the school college or university environment. It thus seeks to address the skills that prospective employers expect from students in terms of possessing the ability to create visual presentations of data solutions and products. With a sharp focus on the current generation schools academies business and marketing companies and catering to the modern demand for novelty in presentation it makes a strong contribution to the conversation around professional collaboration visual communication knowledge transfer novel technologies and knowledge visualization. | The Transfer of Knowledge through Art and Visualization Novel Technologies Professional Collaboration and Visual Communication of Science

GBP 130.00

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A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility. The author advocates plausible reasoning as a general philosophical method and demonstrates how it can be applied to problems in argumentation theory scientific theory choice risk management ethics law economics and epistemology. Human decisions are conditioned by formidable uncertainty. The standard resource for dealing rationally with uncertainty is the mathematical concept of probability. The probability calculus is well-known but since the numerical demands for applying it cannot usually be met it is not widely applicable. By contrast the concept of plausibility is widely applicable but it is little known. This book relies on a generalized concept of plausibility whose strength is its adaptability. The adaptability is due to a novel form of decision theory that takes plausibilities as inputs. This form of decision theory remains applicable to decisions informed by sharp probabilities and utilities but it can also be applied to decisions that must be made without them. It can aid in the rationally critical enterprise of discriminating good arguments from bad and this can foster philosophical progress. A Plea for Plausibility will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in argumentation theory philosophy of science ethics epistemology economics law and risk management. | A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

GBP 120.00

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The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid Implications for Global Development

The social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and of extreme climate events have brought into sharp relief the serious deficiencies of our political economies. The dominant global ideology of neoliberalism and its architects and beneficiaries are responsible for this. Bilateral development assistance is an integral part of the neoliberal grand design. However while the deficiencies of neoliberalism have been starkly exposed by the pandemic its collapse is unlikely in the short-term. Much bilateral assistance will therefore continue to be self-serving. Within these confines and on the basis of a sharply critical analysis of the functioning of technical assistance at the point of the design and delivery of programmes and projects this book identifies crucial supply-side nodes of power and influence where feasible and relatively straight-forward ‘functional’ reforms - strategy structure selection training - would make genuinely developmental results for recipients more likely and enhance donor interests at the same time. It argues that more authentic empathetic and altruistic technical assistance will be essential to bringing this about. The arguments are supported by primary published evidence gathered by the author during 18 years of full-time employment as a team leader or programme manager of technical assistance programmes. The book will be of interest to students of development management development economics political economy and international relations as well as policy makers development practitioners and supply- and demand-side government officials. | The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid Implications for Global Development

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The Data of Ethics

In this amazingly prophetic work done late in his career Herbert Spencer offers an approach to ethics that anticipates developments throughout the twentieth century. He moves away from the twin evils of ethical doctrines bequeathed to us by an ancient past that are simply no longer feasible but also avoids modern standards of ethical conduct that are simply impossible to attain. By association with rules that cannot be obeyed Spencer writes rules that can be obeyed lose their authority. The volume opens with three chapters on conduct: its evolution good and bad and ways of judgment. This is followed by a series of chapters that examine ethics from a variety of scientific perspectives: physics biology psychology and sociology. The work then moves on to specific issues of deep human concern: the relativity of pleasures and pain egoism versus altruism in explaining actions and trial and compromise in decision-making about ethical concerns. Spencer's work anticipates the movement toward pragmatic naturalistic and even positivist approaches to ethics. He emphasizes that a relativist approach while in keeping with the spirit of the industrial age also poses a variety of problems that admit only of empirical solutions. He understands that his critical stance on absolutism should not blind researchers to the ideals assumed by the ancients that assist people in their everyday living. In short this is a remarkable work entirely modern and yet containing a sharp evaluation of how ethical data serve to enhance ethical conduct. | The Data of Ethics

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The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s linked directly to the exhausting and ill-planned transition from the planned economy to the market economy resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and how Russia manages to overcome the poverty trap and initiate and sustain economic growth. This book fills the gap between the volatile economic growth as an objective economic reality of Russia and the lack of scholarly literature on the issue. This study identifies the place and role of foreign aid in economic growth in the market-type post-transitional Russian economy and concludes that foreign aid does not play any significant role in the national economy contrary to what would follow from the classical poverty trap theory considered reviewed applied and tested in this study. Development economists should not overestimate the role of foreign aid in overcoming the poverty trap in those developing economic systems that are currently not in equilibrium and only move toward their steady state. The book will be of interest to those who want to learn more about specific problems in Russia’s newly built capitalism the country’s perspectives and its current semi-peripheral status. The book will also be an excellent supplement for students in Russian studies programs as well as for investors who want to do business in Russia and try to understand the country’s domestic economic conditions and processes. | The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

GBP 130.00

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Essentials Of American Politics

Essentials of American Politics is an undergraduate text with a novel analytical and comparative focus. It takes as a central theme the increasing tension in American politics between a general philosophy of limited government and particular public demands for more and better government programs and services. While this has always been a feature of the American polity recent events have brought it into sharp focus. Both a Republican Congress and Democratic president extol the virtues of less government but continue to grapple with demands for improved education health care transportation and almost every other area of social and economic life. All praise the virtues of lower taxation and at the same time promise improvements in the quality of public services. A similar tension applies in the courts in state politics and indeed throughout the system. Recent successes such as a balanced budget have been achieved in part because the limited government philosophy has been on the ascendant and has won support from all shades of political opinion. But conflicts over the distributional questions of who gets what has hardly subsided. In few other democracies is this tension as well defined as in the United States and Essentials reminds readers of this fact through comparison with democratic processes in other countries and in particular with European countries. Essentials weaves this theme into a discussion of American national politics. Up to date and well organized chapters are devoted to beliefs and values the Constitution federalism Congress presidency the federal bureaucracy interest groups and the courts. Policy chapters include economic social and foreign affairs. In all chapters the analytical approach explains to students some of the main controversies in American political science. At all times Essentials seeks to impart basic information on American politics in an analytical but stimulating manner. Features:Concise format of 17 chapters that cover instit

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Demystifying Modern Slavery

Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery? Why do they exploit others? What might be done to stop exploitation recurring? These are the questions answered in this book. Reporting on the first primary study of modern slavery offenders the book depicts the findings of in-depth interviews with people accused of and convicted for committing modern slavery offences. The different forms that modern slavery takes are explained chapter by chapter: organized crime people smuggling labour exploitation domestic servitude sham marriage the trafficking of adults for sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. Using case studies to illuminate the perspectives of those deemed perpetrators we show that few modern slavery offenders conform to stereotypes of people traffickers. Through an interpretive analysis of offenders’ life stories we reveal the points in the past and present where interventions could have prevented victims from becoming trapped in exploitation. We show that while national governments and international bodies often appear resolute in their efforts to tackle modern slavery and people trafficking they have also obscured their own roles in compounding the plights of those at the sharp ends of globalization. In racializing the actions of sex traffickers grooming gangs and organized criminals the modern slavery agenda has mystified the roles market dynamics the absence of workers’ rights and immigration controls play in generating vulnerabilities to exploitation. This book will be of interest to a wide range of students policymakers and practitioners concerned with modern slavery human trafficking border control and immigration globalization and inequality as well as the more disciplinefocused criminological audiences concerned with why people commit crimes what should be done about them and the often paradoxical consequences of social control across borders. Given the book’s strong focus on narrative psychosocial and social network methodologies it will also appeal to audiences across the social sciences concerned with applying these novel approaches to difficult to reach populations. | Demystifying Modern Slavery

GBP 115.00

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Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians

All people in no matter what culture must be able to place their music firmly in the context of the totality of their beliefs experiences and activities for without such ties music cannot exist. This means that there must be a body of theory connected with any music system - not necessarily a theory of the structure of music sound although that may be present as well but rather a theory of what music is what it does and how it is coordinated with the total environment both natural and cultural in which human beings move. The Flathead Indians of Western Montana (just over 26 000 in number as of the 2000 census) inhabit a reservation consisting of 632 516 acres of land in the Jocko and Flathead Valleys and the Camas Prairie country which lie roughly between Evaro and Kalispell Montana. The reservation is bounded on the east by the Mission Range on the west by the Cabinet National Forest on the south by the Lolo National Forest and on the north by an arbitrary line approximately bisecting Flathead Lake about twenty-four miles south of Kalispell. The area is one of the richest agricultural regions in Montana and fish and game are abundant. The Flathead are engaged in stocking timbering and various agricultural enterprises. For the Flathead the most important single fact about music and its relationship to the total world is its origin in the supernatural sphere. All true and proper songs particularly in the past owe their origin to a variety of contacts experienced by humans with beings which though a part of this world are superhuman and the source of both individual and tribal powers and skills. Thus a sharp distinction is drawn by the Flathead between what they call make-up and all other songs. Merriam's pioneering work in the relationship of ethnography and musicology remains a primary source in this field in anthropology. | Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians

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Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

Industrialization and Development in the Third World

Education Accountability An Analytic Overview

Necessary But Not Sufficient A Theory of Constraints Business Novel

A Preface to Marlowe

Grandparents/Grandchildren The Vital Connection

Nuclear Power in the Developing World

Social Amnesia A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

Theorising Public Pedagogy The Educative Agent in the Public Realm

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

The Ideal of the University

The Transfer of Knowledge through Art and Visualization Novel Technologies Professional Collaboration and Visual Communication of Science

A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid Implications for Global Development

The Data of Ethics

The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

Essentials Of American Politics

Demystifying Modern Slavery

Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians

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