328円 America is on the decline. Why? What made us great and why are we now spiraling out of control? Three pillars have contributed to our great successes. They are the pillar of faith in God, the free market and the Constitution. All three of those pillars are being attacked. All three of them are at...

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6,101円 The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing Southーresearch proposed and undertaken by Southern researchersーand how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is m...

10,280円 The sustained remarkable economic growth in the East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - has brought about a great deal of debate over the role of the state in the market and society. Shin analyses the dynamic process of state interventions in the economy and s...

9,948円 Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving capa...

2,647円 Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantlyーhe was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of ot...

4,254円 This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what c...

3,549円 As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriag...

9,616円 Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America’s "War on Drugs" – both in tax spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of social ills including: homicide, property ...

11,440円 Learn how lesbian couples deal with political, social, and legal issues related to their relationshipsand their professions Lesbian Academic Couples is a collection of writings by scholars who examinein theory and in narrativeissues faced by partners working in the academic field, including the p...

26,740円 This contributed volume features state-of-the-art research from ten different countries on implementation, institutionalization and the future prospects of social entrepreneurship. This volume aims at bringing together research that considers the context of economy, politics and cultural issues c...

6,076円 This book provides a critical commentary on China's situation and future outlook from the perspective of the 2012-13 generational power transfer. In this power transfer, taking place against the background of an increasingly unstable domestic situation, an apparently outstandingly successful gene...