Social Sciences and Education

Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental orga...

This popular and comprehensive text gives the reader an appreciation of the concepts and principles of total quality management (TQM) and serves as...

Karl Marx's classic definitions of class and society under capitalism are still widely used today. Ideas such as class, revolution, production and ...

Microeconomics for Public Managers presents a rigorous non-mathematical introduction to the study of microeconomics geared towards managers of nonp...

This classic book explores the intellectual, political and social foundations of Islamism, and current Islamist groups across the Arab and Muslim w...

The term 'nation-building' has experienced a remarkable renaissance since the early 1990s. It has been used to describe and to justify the military...

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade ...

Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, ...

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

Media Lens' mission is to correct the distorted vision of the liberal media. A thorn in the side of the Guardian, Independent, Channel 4 and the BB...

In The Credit Crunch, Graham Turner predicted that banks would be nationalised and interest rates would be reduced too slowly to halt the crisis. H...

This exciting sequel to John Child′s classic text, Organization, provides a current, comprehensive guide to organizational management in today s wo...

Preface , Introduction , Part I: Pakistan-US Relations, 1: Changing dynamics: Islamic Orientation of the Pakistani State & the Islamic Reaction...

As peace operations become the primary mechanism of conflict management used by the UN and regional organizations, understanding their problems and...

For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing cri...

Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and ...

PR Strategy and Application is a comprehensive and accessible text that situates Public Relations in a 21st century context; as a set of tools not ...

Provides a clear, useful framework and methods for R&D, including robust technology development, product planning, and product design and devel...

Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch. Written for a broad audience, this accessib...

Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord ta...

The sequel and companion volume to C. A. Bayly’s ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated stud...

This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najaf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today...

Globalization is not new, nor is it a policy, it’s a process that has existed as long as man looked over the horizon, travelled and traded. It can...