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...
  • Communist Poland

    A Jewish Woman's Experience

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman’s Experience is the first-person account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for heavily censored ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Free Market Dogs

    The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland

    Series series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
    What has changed in the last twenty-five years in the relationship of Poles with their dogs? How have the free market and capitalism influenced Poland and the human-canine bond there? Are dogs "property," "friends," or "members of the family" in post-communist Poland? Free Market Dogs, edited by Michal Piotr Pregowski and Justyna Wlodarczyk, examines the interactions and relationships of dogs and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

    Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

    More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need.Praise for the second edition:"Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes readers to the edge of a world of grueling realities not known by most Americans."-- ChoiceDoctors Without Borders (aka Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) was founded in 1971 by rebellious ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Meaning of Internationalization

    Practical Advice for a Connected Planet

    Translated by Masao Kunihiro ...
    In The Meaning of Internationalization, Edwin O. Reischauer—former American Ambassador to Japan and one of the world's most acclaimed scholars of Japanese life and culture—delivers a heartfelt message to the Japanese people on the need to look beyond their borders at the changing nature of the world. Reischauer stresses the need to adapt in order to survive these changes and thrive in the new ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • World Heritage

    Benefits Beyond Borders

    Edited by Amareswar Galla ...
    Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage sites and their Outstanding Universal Value in the context of sustainable development. The case studies describe twenty-six thematically, typologically and regionally diverse World Heritage sites illustrating their benefits to local ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Why Cooperate?

    The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

    by Scott Barrett ...
    Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Law and Society in Latin America

    A New Map

    Edited by Cesar Garavito ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their causes, and processes of globalization have had profound effects on legal norms and practices. Law and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Feminists in Development Organizations eBook

    Change from the margins

    Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Laura Turquet ...
    Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international NGOs.The personal stories in this book show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ positioned on the border of the development agencies that employ them. It is a place where they are neither fully one ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • ASEAN's Engagement of Civil Society

    Regulating Dissent

    by Kelly Gerard ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an innovative framework for understanding the role of civil society in regional and global policymaking. Using political economy analysis, Gerard demonstrates that ASEAN's people-oriented agenda builds legitimacy, while sidelining its detractors. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Global Management, Local Resistances

    Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Case Studies

    Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book originates from a research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on global management and local resistances in all major world regions during the last years. It seeks to assess the overall management situation in the world, looking at the world as a social system ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Wives, Mistresses and Matriarchs

    Asian women today

    This is the untold story of the women of Asia. It is not a tale of the submissive oriental beauties of western fiction, but the true stories of prime ministers, factory labourers, business magnates, mistresses and prostitutes. It is a true story of extraordinary power and humiliating poverty in a region which is facing the most profound social changes the world has ever seen. It is a book about ... Read more

    $10.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rural Labour Mobility in Times of Structural Transformation

    Dynamics and Perspectives from Asian Economies

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and associated problems. Further, it addresses the question of why the socio-economic conditions of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD