Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (Herrera Veronica)(Paperback)

Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (Herrera Veronica)(Paperback)

Most of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service

Industry, Reform and Empire: Scotland, 1790-1880 (Hutchison Iain)(Paperback)

Industry, Reform and Empire traces the evolution of politics from a repressive, reactionary and electorally restricted regime before 1832 to an era of wider franchise and sweeping institutional reform. Focusing on the impact of rapid industrialisation, the author shows how it transformed the

Northern Ireland Government and Politics for CCEA AS Level (Veronica Lesley)(Paperback / softback)

Written to address Unit AS1 of the revised CCEA Government and Politics specification. Included in the book are tasks, practice essay titles, key terms and concepts, as well as a detailed glossary, index and examination preparation

Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (Zhang Li)(Paperback)

The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological

Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Huyssen Andreas)(Paperback)

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New

Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics (Jon Ihnji)(Paperback)

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern them. Taking action 'for the environment' is not only a moral imperative; instead, it is activated by

Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (Niebuhr Reinhold)(Paperback)

Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discussed the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behaviour of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the

Governing Cities: Politics and Policy (Pill Madeleine)(Paperback)

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This textbook introduces ideas, theories, concepts and examples to help us understand the political and policy challenges of governing cities, centred on the

Ideologies in World Politics (Giesen Klaus-Gerd)(Paperback)

Introduction Ideologies in World Politics.- Islam and Ideology in World Politics.- Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis.- Ideology and International Security.- Environmental Ideologies in Global Politics.- The Ideology of the Global Commons.- Revisiting and Revising World-Wide Neoliberalism.-

The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico (Lipsett-Rivera Sonya)(Paperback)

With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype associating Mexican men with machismo 'defined as excessive virility that is accompanied by bravado and explosions of violence. While scholars studying men (TM)s

Islam: History, Religion, and Politics (Sonn Tamara)(Paperback)

Now available in a fully-revised and updated third edition, Islam: History, Religion and Politics, provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the core teachings, historical development, and contemporary public struggles of Islam. Features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and the

Government and Politics in Taiwan (Fell Dafydd)(Paperback)

Introduction to Politics and Society (Best Shaun)(Paperback)

Introduction to Politics and Society draws on examples from popular political culture in order to convey how politics operates in the contemporary world. Examples illustrate the meaning of theories and show the relevance of central theoretical debates. Planned and developed with an eye to the needs

Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible (Escobar Arturo)(Paperback)

In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant

Local Politics and Democratization in Russia (Ross Cameron)(Paperback)

Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability (Banerjee Gangadhar)(Paperback)

Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability is a timely publication. Differences in availability of water among the regions, the magnitude of variability, the timing and duration of high and low supply of water and its many uses have significant implications on Natural Ecosystems which are of

Common spaces of urban emancipation (Stavrides Stavros)(Paperback)

This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating

Politics and Leadership in North Korea: The Guerilla Dynasty (Buzo Adrian)(Paperback)

Politics and Leadership in North Korea, now fully updated in this second edition, presents an accessible and comprehensive account of North Korea's political, economic and foreign policies since its creation in 1945. Moving away from media representations of North Korea as dangerously erratic and

The Promise of Politics (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section of

Architectural Guide Hong Kong (Meyer Ulf)(Paperback)

Hong Kong's location on the water, the high mountains and the narrow urban strip in between, its forced drive into the sky, have led to the development of the most breathtaking skyline in the world. This new architectural guide presents one hundred of Hong Kong's most interesting

Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations (Heywood Andrew)(Paperback)

Concepts have a particular importance for students of politics and international relations. Political argument often boils down to a struggle over the legitimate meaning of terms and enemies may argue, fight and even go to war, each claiming to be 'defending freedom', 'upholding democracy' or

Judges, politics and the Irish Constitution (Cahillane Laura)(Paperback)

A collection of essays on politics and judicial power in Ireland, featuring contributions from scholars, judges and legal

Politics for Dummies (Delaney Ann M.)(Paperback)

This edition offers readers the tools to get involved in local state and national politics and communicate with their elected officials and understand what their representatives can do for them. - Helps the reader understand how the political system works, including; local, state and national

Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Boyer Dominic)(Paperback)

Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph--a combination of