Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Research Handbook on Education and Democracy

    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Education
    This timely Research Handbook examines how the many facets of education can foster democratic competences. It reviews state-of-the-art research and identifies a number of under-explored issues in the field, highlighting the potential of educational reforms in improving democratic engagement across a wealth of demographics.Internationally renowned contributors discuss the definition of democratic ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Global Empire - Futurica Trilogy 2 (Unabridged)

    Series Audiobook 2 - The Global Empire

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    The Global Empire has correctly been described as Bard & Söderqvist's philosophically most profound work. In this book, they explore what a world view is, how it is constructed, how it is defended under pressure from surrounding technological change, and how it finally implodes and must be replaced at the tipping point that is called a paradigm shift. The authors then move ahead and construct a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Netocrats - Futurica Trilogy 1 (Unabridged)

    Series Audiobook 1 - Futurica Trilogy

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    History is always written from the perspective of the ruling or rising elite at the time of writing. Concepts like The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, et cetera, were of course unknown during those periods that used to be called the stone age and the bronze age. They were invented during the 19th century to make sense of a development that seemed to reach its climax with industrialisation and the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imitation

    The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    Imitation: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the topic of imitation behavior in humans, providing a summary of existing scientific research on imitation, covering everything from examples of imitation across each developmental stage to animal imitation such as monkeys imitating each other.The authors argue that imitation forms the foundation of long-lasting relationships, including those ... Read more

    Was $27.99 USD Now $24.99 USD

  • The Search for Fundamentals

    The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning

    Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Italy's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    The New Assertiveness of an Aspiring Middle Power

    Italy’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The New Assertiveness of an Aspiring Middle Power, edited by Giampiero Giacomello and Bertjan Verbeek, shows how changes in Italy’s international and domestic environment since the early 1990s have affected Italy’s foreign policy and raised its aspiration to become, and be treated as, a middle power. The contributors theoretically engage with ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • International Organizations and Implementation

    Enforcers, Managers, Authorities?

    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    International organizations have once more become subjects of investigation for a whole range of scholars: political scientists, international relations specialists, organization theorists, and policy experts alike. The end of the Cold War, increased globalization, and the intensification of regional and functional cooperation all have produced a greater interest in the role of international ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Autonomous Policy Making By International Organisations

    Edited by Bob Reinalda, Bertjan Verbeek ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This volume assesses the importance of international organisations in global governance during the last ten years. The prestigious team of international contributors seek to determine the ways in which IO's contribute to the solution of global problems by influencing international decision-making in ways that go beyond the lowest common denominator of national interests. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Advanced Digital Auditing

    Theory and Practice of Auditing Complex Information Systems and Technologies

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book discusses the most modern approach to auditing complex digital systems and technologies. It combines proven auditing approaches, advanced programming techniques and complex application areas, and covers the latest findings on theory and practice in this rapidly developing field. Especially for those who want to learn more about novel approaches to testing complex information ... Read more

    Free

  • Decision Making Within International Organisations

    Edited by Bob Reinalda, Bertjan Verbeek ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Following the end of the Cold War and in the context of globalization, this book examines the extent to which member states dominate decision making in international organizations and whether non-state actors, for example non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations, are influential. The authors assess the new patterns of decision-making to determine whether they are relatively ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows

    Edited by Jan-Bert Flor ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth’s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves.This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age (Unabridged)

    Series series Svenska Ljud Classica

    Unabridged

    18 hours 43 min

    After the monumental Futurica Trilogy comes a book that dares to describe individualism as the now defunct religion it always was and describe a reality that is primarily virtual, rather than physical. While the authors do not mind challenging the reader's view of the self and the world, their main intention here is to induce passive receivers of the future to become more active participants. This ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus