Society & Social Sciences books

An international and interdisciplinary group of experts shed light upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict today, how it evolved and likely scenarios. Taking into account a changed political landscape, including the EU's new foreign...

Over the past two decades, China's political reforms, open-door policy, dramatic economic growth, and increasingly assertive foreign policy have had an unprecedented regional and global impact. This introductory textbook provides...

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state. Schouenborg aims to take the next big step in the...

We are a nation-building people, and Jeremi Suri--Nobel Fellow and leading light in the next generation of policy makers--looks to America's recent history to see what America has to offer failed states around the world--now in...

A veteran political strategist provides insight into crisis management on cases ranging from Martha Stewart to Whole Foods to Bill Clinton in a book on what to do when disasters--both personal and political--strike.

Lanny Davis...

#1 bestselling author, Robert Ringer, explains what it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed in an environment that has become increasingly hostile towards small businesses under the Obama adminstration.

As the progressives now...

Should marijuana be legalized? The latest Gallup poll reports that exactly half of Americans say yes ; opinion couldn't be more evenly divided.
Marijuana is forbidden by international treaties and by national and local laws...

Organize! links local organising with global struggles to make a better world. In over 20 chapters written by a diverse range of organisers, activists, academics, lawyers, artists and researchers, this book weaves a rich and...

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. How can decisions about large infrastructure projects be taken better? Have some countries managed to generate...

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. How can decisions about large infrastructure projects be taken better? Have some countries managed to generate...

Marx and the Politics of Abstraction

In response to the events of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a 'War on Terror' ushering in an era of anti-Muslim racism, or 'Islamophobia'. However, 9/11 did not create Islamophobia, an idea that has become the handmaiden...

Wissam S. Yafi argues that there are four dynamics leading to inevitable change in the Arab region: geopolitical, geoeconomic, geosocial, and technological. Yafi comes to the conclusion that no system will be able to support the...

A close description of Amal El'Sana-Alh'jooj's experiences as a Palestinian Bedouin female activist, this book explores Amal's activism and argues that activists' biographies provide a means of understanding the complexities of...

Wissam S. Yafi argues that there are four dynamics leading to inevitable change in the Arab region: geopolitical, geoeconomic, geosocial, and technological. Yafi comes to the conclusion that no system will be able to support the...

This book, an updated version of Sheahen's original 1983 work, is a comprehensive look at a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) and what it would mean for the United States today.

Collaborative Public Diplomacy argues that in a complex multi-hub and multi-directional network society where each interaction changes the odds of success, negotiation and behaviors which increase collaboration will increasingly...