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  • Governance

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Prof Mark Bevir ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative governance'. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term 'governance' and to what does ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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    A Novel

    by V. E. Schwab ...
    Series Book 1 - Shades of Magic
    A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. SchwabKell is one of the last Antari**—**magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.Kell was raised in Arnes**—Red London—**and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Leadership

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this "impressive book" ( The Washington Post).Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. In this groundbreaking study, Burns examines the qualities that make ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tom Gilmartin

    The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics

    by Frank Connolly ...
    A successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians and public officials would want a slice of the action … in the form of large amounts of cash. Gilmartin blew the whistle on corruption at the heart of government and ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Cold War

    How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West

    by Edward Lucas ...
    Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis______________________________________'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' - Micha... ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • The Activists' Handbook

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy

    by Aidan Ricketts ...
    A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond.Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign and extensively discussing legal and ethical issues, this book empowers its readers to ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • Advertising

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Winston Fletcher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer. Advertising is a diverse entity and different campaigns work (or fail to work) in a plethora of different ways. Most advertising persuades people to buy things, but how? And who does it aim to persuade? And how are these decisions made? In this Very Short Introduction Winston Fletcher, an expert with extensive knowledge of ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile States

    Theory and Practice in Aid Agencies

    by Jesper Johnsøn ...
    Aid agencies increasingly consider anti-corruption activities important for economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. In the first major comparative study of work by the World Bank, the European Commission and the UNDP to help governments in fragile states counter corruption, Jesper Johnson finds significant variance in strategic direction and common failures in ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Politics of Urbanism

    Seeing Like a City

    by Warren Magnusson ...
    Series series Interventions
    To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political order.Locally and globally, the city exists by virtue of complicated patterns of government and self ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Deconstructing the Dynamics of World-Societal Order

    The Power of Governmentality in Palestine

    by Jan Busse ...
    Series series New International Relations
    To get a better sense of power dynamics in global politics, this book presents an innovative theoretical framework, combining a critical engagement with, and further development of, Michel Foucault’s governmentality on the one hand, and the theory of world society of the Stanford School of Sociology on the other.Making an original contribution to academic debates about power and global political ... Read more

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  • Governance in Turbulent Times

    Edited by Christopher K. Ansell, Jarle Trondal, Morten Øgård ...
    What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained political order? What are the limits of established rule as we know it? How much stress can systems tackle before they reach some kind of limit? How do governments tackle enduring ambiguity and uncertainty in their systems and environments? These are some of the big questions of our time. Governance in ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Developing E-Government Projects: Frameworks and Methodologies

    Edited by Zaigham Mahmood ...
    The emergence of e-government allows for effective governance, increased transparency, better management, and efficient services through the use of the internet and information and communication technologies. Therefore, world governments are mobilizing large amounts of resources in order to implement and promote the use of e-government. Developing E-Government Projects: Frameworks and ... Read more

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