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The campaign for nuclear disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) began in 1957 with a small group of public figures and grew into a mass movement. Martin Shaw details CND’s rise, the activists involved, the tensions around direct action, and the culture and social groups that the campaign mobilized to "ban the bomb".
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Idleness
We are stuck in a low-pay, low-productivity rut, with far too many people working in poor quality jobs, with barely any training and little chance of getting on. Bold thinking is required to reverse this trend. This book considers what can be done.
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Gaia wakes
A bold and compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet, one which explores the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating ecological functions and peering far into the future and universe.
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Conservatism
An account of British conservativism which avoids the usual confusion between the ideology and the stated principles of a party which prides itself on an ability to change its views according to circumstances.
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Global health
A comprehensive and authoritative examination of the key issues relating to global health. Written by a leading health geographer with an international reputation, the book offers a critical and rigorous analysis of contemporary challenges facing world health.
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Max weber’s sociological thought on the economy
Max Weber (1864–1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology. This book offers a fresh reading of Weber’s work and highlights his thinking about the economy and economic interactions in society.
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The economy of the gulf states
A new economic history and political economy of the Gulf States -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE.
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The handbook of labour unions
This collection of newly commissioned essays from an international cast of contributors provides an authoritative assessment of the continued economic, social and political relevance of labour unions and their potential to bring about progressive societal change.
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The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations
A corrective to the view that cities are only ever "good", arguing that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the “good” innovations also provides fertile ground for the development of the “bad” ones, on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth ...
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Deglobalization
Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the world’s politics and economics over the last 40 years. This is an invaluable overview of one of the most important phenomena of our age.
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Karl polanyi's political and economic thought
A comprehensive introduction to the ideas of Karl Polanyi by examining the key themes that run throughout his work, including economy, commodification, money, geopolitical economy, the state, class, democracy and knowledge.
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Social movements in latin america
A comprehensive survey of Latin American social movements, which are likely to be at the centre of any future progressive politics in Latin America.
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Heralds of a democratic europe
Detailed research that challenges the received wisdom in European integration history that, long before the EU was plagued by Euroscepticism and other forms of contestation, there was a "permissive consensus" between European elites and the general public, which allowed European integration to mo...
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The economics of oil and gas
A concise and rigorous presentation of petroleum economics that examines the entire value chain of the oil and gas industry from exploration, development and production to transportation, refining and marketing.
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Geoliberal europe and the test of war
Richard Youngs examines the policy challenges and choices now facing Europe in the wake of Russia's war with Ukraine.
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Freeing trade in north america
A concise analysis and overview of the trilateral trade agreements – NAFTA and its successor USCMA – that have created one of the largest trade blocs in the world.
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Dictionary of corruption
Written by an expert team, this is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals. It establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and anti-corruption studies. From amakudari to zero tolerance, over 250 key terms...
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The war on terror
An enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades. This book shows how the War on Terror has changed global politics, why it has been fought and why it has proven so difficult to end despite multiple failed attempts at course correction.
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Cultural economics
An introductory guide to the contribution to and role of the creative industries and their products and services in the overall economy.
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Reflections on the future of the left
These essays from leading left intellectuals reflect on the scale and nature of the task that the Left now faces and, together, offer a major statement on the future for centre-left politics in advanced capitalism, and a frank appraisal of the Left’s current capacity to keep conservatism at bay.
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The economics of fund management
Suitable for students of business and finance, the book offers readers a balanced and considered guide to the economics of the fund management industry and a critical appraisal of the sector's future.
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Populocracy
Catherine Fieschi examines why populism and populist parties have become a feature of our politics. Populism's appeal, she argues, needs to be understood as a response to the fundamental reshaping of our political, economic and social spheres through globalization and the digital revolution.
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The state of england
Simon Lee makes the case for England, an English identity and and an English state. He puts forward a moral vision of England as a political community, based upon a civic nationalism and national identity rooted in the principles of democratic political culture and citizenship.
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Evolving regional economies
Martin Henning explores why economic growth and transformation is essentially a regionally based and spatially dependent process and introduces the core ideas involved in understanding the dynamics of regional economies drawing on case studies to illuminate these ideas in practice.
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Rethinking global labour
Ronaldo Munck examines how globalization has created a new global working class and suggests that we are at the beginning of a new era for workers and their organizations, in which they will begin to impact decisively on the new global order that they have helped to create.
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Europe and the british left
Explores how the European question has divided the Labour Party and the progressive left for over 50 years and makes the case for an approach that is critical of the European Union, yet pragmatically embraces its potential to facilitate and enable a radical internationalist politics.
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Disease
Access to many of the things that make and keep us healthy are not evenly distributed in the population. Achieving good health is deeply entwined with all aspects of society and it has never been clearer that these determinants are not only social or physiological, but also political.
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The habitation society
A compelling analysis of our transition from an industrial economy to a habitation economy, which maps out how this new economy can work more effectively for people, their families and their communities.
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The conservative challenge to globalization
Ray Kiely examines the conservative anti-globalization that has manifested itself in recent years as a nostalgia for a former supposed age of economic and societal harmony and which has informed popular mantras of deregulation and economic nationalism.
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European studies
This volume brings together some of the most influential Europeanists writing today to take stock of the subject and to consider the most fruitful avenues for future research.
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Foul play
Football has an integrity problem. Whether it is the reckless behaviour of players on or off the pitch, television commentators bad-mouthing decisions during the game, or the corrupt governance of the sport, football has a tarnished reputation. Dan Hough analyses why this is and how to tackle it.
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Thatcherism
A lively analysis of how Thatcherism became an ideology for politics to conjure with, its relationship with its eponymous leader and with the Conservative Party, as well as the long-term implications for the British people.
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The future of uk-china relations
At a time when both China’s role in the world is becoming the focus of international business strategy and Brexit is pushing the UK to look to the rest of the world for trade and investment, Kerry Brown assesses the potential for a new "golden age" of UK–China relations.
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The economics of airlines
This updated and expanded new edition explains the economic realities of the airline industry and the challenges that the sector now faces after the seismic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Outside the eu
New essays by distinguished practitioners and experts examining the various options, real and imagined, for the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU.
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Okinawa
Located between the tip of Japan and Taiwan, Okinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Its US military bases means it has the attention of both China and North Korea.
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Medical economics
Written by two medics, who are also qualified economists, this introduction to health economics draws on a wider range of economic thinking than that normally underpinning health policy to explore how economics can best contribute to improved health care.
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Understanding corruption
Using case studies to understand the different forms of corruption (bribery, political corruption, kleptocracy and corrupt capital) the book builds a picture of the global threat that corruption poses and the responses that have been most effective.
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The french economy
The first general economic history of France since 2004 and the first to include the impact of the global financial crisis.
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Economic anthropology
This accessible and authoritative overview of the subdiscipline of economic anthropology defines and frames the field for a new generation of students in search of an inspiring and fresh way of looking at the economic world.
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Logos
Raymond Tallis steps into the gap between mind and world to explore what is at stake in our attempts to make sense of our world. He reveals how philosophers, theologians and scientists have sought to demystify our extraordinary sense-making capabilities and how their attempts are of little help i...
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Central bank digital currencies
In this wide-ranging review, Michael Lloyd explores the potential opportunities and threats that the advent of CBDCs will have for commercial banking, business, individuals and the central banks themselves, as well as the world’s monetary system.
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Quantitative easing
A thorough and perspicacious analysis of auantitative easing (QE), what has become a recovery method of last resort, that will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand central banking’s role in the national economy.
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Central bank independence and the future of the euro
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus examines the role of the European Central Bank in the euro crisis and what role it should play in the future.
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Sustainable development and water security
This book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.
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The natural dividend
How might we best negotiate the world’s scarce pool of natural resources? This book advocates a management regime that is both politically, as well as environmentally, sustainable, and shows how such management might work to protect our common heritage and secure the benefits we can expect from s...
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The living wage
This short primer traces the origins of the concept of the living wage and seeks to explain its current rise in fortune as an economic instrument with a social objective. It examines its impact on labour markets and wage levels, explores how it has been applied, and assesses whether it is an effe...
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Gender and race in european economic governance
An original study of European economic governance that demonstrates how gender and race play essential roles in generating both legitimacy and coherence for individual economic policies and the overall economic governance system.
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The political economy of housing financialization
Greg Fuller explores the importance and growing role of mortgage markets in the macroeconomy and provides a comparative analysis of housing finance across a number of European national economies, including the UK, as well as the United States.
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Finntopia
What have the Finns got right that other nations haven't?
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Squalor
Increasingly divided into the haves and the have-nots, housing epitomises the divisions and social inequalities found in Britain today. This book exposes the history of the British problem of squalor and the government’s repeated failures to grasp the nettle when it comes to fair and just solutio...
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The kurds
A contemporary overview and critical analysis of the Kurds quest for national identity and statehood from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the modern day.
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The economics of cars
A short, non-technical guide to the workings of a fast-moving industry that remains of huge importance to the global economy and continues to be a national barometer of economic success and failure.
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Capitalism, socialism and property rights
An in-depth examination of one of the defining issues that separates capitalism from socialism – the system of ownership, or property rights – which, when explored, highlight fundamental problems in the model of market socialism.
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Pyromania
Fire is a key physical process on earth, one that humans alone have worked out how to partly control. The combustion of fossil fuels is causing the climate to change rapidly. In this accessible book, Dalby argues our challenge is to create a new economy for life after fossil fuels.
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The economics of arms
An authoritative, non-technical introduction to the economics of the arms industry by one of the world's leading defence economists.
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Bounded rationality
This short book introduces the field of bounded rationality, fundamental to understanding how economic decisions are made, to a beginning readership in economics.
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Cryptocurrencies
Oonagh McDonald examines the challenges, opportunities and threats that cryptocurrencies pose to cash and to existing fiat currencies and their potential to change how global finance operates.
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Financialization
An unrivalled analysis of the pervasive forms that financialization has taken, its rise as a global phenomenon, its impact on economic growth, its transformative effect on businesses and the costs that we pay as consumers. Has finance become a burden to growth and what, if anything, can be done t...
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Credit rating agencies
A critical introduction to the complex world of the credit rating industry: how it works, how it has evolved, the role it played in the financial crisis, and how it is regulated.
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Inside the deal
This frank and uncompromising account gives the inside view from the EU side of what it was really like to negotiate the Brexit agreement with the UK.
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Collective bargaining and gender equality
The authors provide a critical examination of the role of collective bargaining in achieving gender equality in the workplace and show how the feminization of unions in both developing and developed countries is changing the bargaining agenda.
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The contradictions of capital in the twenty-first century
An international team of leading economic historians provide an overview of global developments in the theory and reality of inequality in the light of the work of Thomas Piketty.
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Sustainable human settlements within the global urban agenda
The UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda. David Simon explains the anatomy and dynamics of SDG 11, and critically assess how it is being used and understood in different local, regional and national contexts.
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Warmonger
Ukraine is the latest of Putin’s wars of aggression following Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea and Syria. This book examines each external military intervention to show how Russia rebuilt itself after the 1990s, how it embraced Putinism and an imperial vision through a series of bloody conflicts.
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Unfinished empire
An essential primer for the reader looking to understand the consequences of the war with Ukraine for Russia's regional relationships with bordering countries and Russia’s place in the world beyond the binary East–West tensions.
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The political economy of brexit
These essays explore the ramifications of the Brexit decision for the UK and European economies, in particular, on manufacturing, regional development, labour regulations, financial services and Northern Ireland.
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China's hong kong
In this new edition, Tim Summers brings his analysis of the politics of Hong Kong fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of the mass demonstrations of June 2019 and the intensifying confrontational politics that has culminated in China’s new security laws effectively crimin...
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The federal reserve and its founders
A story of vested interest and the pursuit of power and profit that brought about America's first central bank. Naclerio sheds new light on the creation of one of the world'smost important financial institutions and how it came to have the national and international influence it exerts today.
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Syria
The book offers an insightful and balanced analysis of the threat the Assad regime poses in both its regional context as well as the continued problem it poses for the international community.
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Behavioural economics
An introduction to the topic of behavioural economics for a beginning readership. It explains its approach and methodology and assesses its successes and weaknesses.
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