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(H/B) PEACE AT ANY PRICE - HOW THE WORLD FAILED KOSOVO
In June 1999, after three months of NATO air strikes had driven Serbian forces from the province of Kosovo, the UN Security Council authorised the creation of an interim civilian administration. Under this mandate, the UN was empowered to coordinate reconstruction, maintain law and order, protect human rights and create democratic institutions. Six years later, the UN's special envoy to Kosovo, Kai Eide, described the state of Kosovo: "The current economic situation remains bleak... respect for rule of law is inadequately entrenched and th...
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(P/B) RIVER OF LOVE IN AN AGE OF POLLUTION - THE YAMUNA RIVER
Celebrated as an aquatic form of divinity for thousands of years, the Yamuna is one of India's most sacred rivers. A prominent feature of north Indian culture, the Yamuna is conceptualized as a goddess flowing with liquid love, yet the river is now severely polluted, the victim of fast-paced industrial development. This fascinating and beautifully written book investigates the stories, theology, and religious practices connected with the river goddess Yamuna, collected from texts written over several millennia and from talks with pilgrims,...
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(H/B) PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS AND POLITICAL WARFARE IN LONG-TERM STRATEGIC PLANNING
Psychological operations are as old as the history of mankind; indeed, the Bible records numerous cases, such as the "torch-game" deception of Gideon against the Midianites that forced them to retreat. The Athenians' clever use of psychological warfare against the Melians in the Peloponnesian War is well documented, as is the Romans' disinformation and blackmail campaigns that ultimately forced the Carthaginians to surrender in the Punic Wars. And, one should not forget that the success of the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan partly depended o...
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(P/B) THE OTHER DAVOS - THE GLOBALIZATION OF RESISTANCE
Davos, the Swiss mountain resort, is host each year to the meetings of the World Economic Forum. To this informal gathering of those business and financial magnates with real economic power in the capitalist world are invited political leaders, cultural and religious organizations and even some trade unionists. The aim is to define global economic strategies. Then one year, for the first time, a counter-Davos gathering brought together on the same date social movements representative of resistance and struggles across five continents. Thes...
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WORLDS OF PRODUCTION
This intellectually bold but accessible book seeks to go beyond limitations of the reigning neoclassical and institutional paradigms in explaining the organization of economic activity. It does this by construing "non-economic" factors such as institutions, cultures, and social practices as conventions, which coordinate economic actors by defining specific "frameworks of economic action." In these conventional frameworks, the standard distinction between economic and non-economic no longer exists. The authors explore in detail four basic f...
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(P/B) THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Political communication has a powerful influence in shaping public awareness and opinion. This book examines the complex practice of political messaging. In particular it raises questions and presents evidence on one key and growing facet of this process - who are these so-called 'professionals', what part do they play in the political process, and have they changed the very nature of politics? The authors develop a framework for understanding the changing voice of politics in various contexts, such as governmental campaigns and elections....
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(P/B) WRITING ON THE WALLS

(H/B) TRANSITION
The former socialist countries' transition to market economies is one of the momentous transformations in modern history. The pace and degree of success have varied widely, and there is increasing divergence in performance, structure, and institutions among the transition economies. These differences are largely determined by country-specific conditions and political configurations. This book compares the experiences of the countries involved over the first ten years to determine what has worked and failed, as well as the nature of the cha...
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(H/B) EMOTION AS PROMOTION

(P/B) EVALUATING HEALTH PROMOTION
Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods. As the demands for rigorous evaluation and evidence-based decision-making increase, health promotion cannot ignore the need for accurate, reliable and valid methods to carry out evaluation. This book provides clear descriptions (with plentiful practical examples) of such methods, and the problems that can arise from their implementation. Both qualitative...
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SOLIDARITY FOR SALE - HOW CORRUPTION DESTROYED THE LABOR
"Mokita" is the term used by the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea for a truth that everybody knows but no one talks about. Corruption is mokita in the AFL-CIO. For generations, in the construction, longshore, hospitality, and teamster unions, mobsters have had more influence than the members in choosing the leaders; pension funds are stolen; and bribes smooth the way for contractors to replace union members with lower-paid non-union workers. To control union wrongdoing, the Justice Department routinely resorts to the federal Rackete...
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(P/B) ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Now available in paperback, with updated tables on EU structure and membership of EU institutions, the highly-acclaimed Encyclopedia of the European Union provides a balanced and authoritative reference guide for students, researchers and practitioners alike. It contains more than 700 alphabetical entries including extended articles notably on institutions, member states and key political figures written by a wide range of leading authorities. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION
Understanding and responding to corruption is a worldwide challenge. This book offers a general overview of the nature, pattern, anddiffering perspectives on political and economic corruption. Providing detail and depth, the book examines and compares corruption infour countries: the United States, Israel, Russia, and India. Each country chapter explores how corruption is defined and understood in that country and provides case material illustrating corrupt practice and responses to it. The country chapters also cover whistleblowingactivit...
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(H/B) THE MAKING OF MODERN TOURISM
At the end of the twentieth century, tourism is the world's largest single industry. Tourism, however, is not only an economic and social phenomenon but can be 'read' in semiotic terms centred around dreams of alternatives to everyday life. The images, which today dominate advertisements for tourist products, had to be constructed and sustained, invented and remoulded over a long historical process. It seems that without this distinctive historical and cultural 'baggage' the remarkable social practice of taking holidays would not have evol...
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(P/B) IMMIGRATION AND HOMELESSNESS IN EUROPE

(P/B) AN INSPECTOR CALLS
A witty approach to a serious subject. How to avoid getting into hot water with the inland revenue and what to do if you are already up to your neck in it. Important and helpful advice illustrated with 40-50 cartoons by Michael Heath. When does tax avoidance become tax evasion? What is the SCO and when does it act? What are its powers and what do you do if you find yourself the subject of an investigation? Problems resulting from tax blunders aren’t new and responsibility for detecting and preventing fraud now falls heavily on the accounti...
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(H/B) PUBLICATION DESIGN WORKBOOK

(P/B) TURKEY
The authors put issues relevant to Turkey today - such as consolidating democracy, dealing with economic development issues, improving its human rights record and its foreign policy - in an historical context, allowing comparisons with other late developers in the world and reflecting the complexity of Turkish political and socio-economic developments. Turkey also argues that the modernization process that started in the nineteenth century, with all its elements including secularization and Westernization, has taken root. (From the publish...
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(H/B) CITIZENSHIP AND THE NATION-STATE IN GREECE AND TURKEY
Of all the successor states of the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey have moved the farthest in the direction of coping with the challenges relating to the transition to modernity. The goal of the series Social and Historical Studies on Greece and Turkey is to serve as a forum for discourse and dialogue between Greek and Turkish social scientists and historians, contributing to the ongoing theoretical debates in the international social science community, concerning the economic, cultural, political, and social aspects of modernity. Citize...
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