Lending Library

A Concise Encylopaedia of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Ed. J. R. Hale
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

• 750 entries covering the whole range of Renaissance history – government, politics, war, diplomacy, economics, painting, music, science, travel
• More than 120 entries on general themes – astrology, censorship, fortification, humour, magic, witches
• Subject listing of all entries and clear cross referencing
• Concise bibliographical information within entries
• Maps and family trees
• Glossary of essential Italian terms

A Concise History of Italy

Author: Christopher Duggan
Format: Book
Description:

Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This concise history covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present day, but focuses on the difficulties Italy has faced in forging a nation state during the past two centuries. The opening chapters consider the geographical and cultural obstacles to unity, and survey the long centuries of political fragmentation in the peninsula since the sixth century. It was this legacy of fragmentation that Italy's new rulers had to strive to overcome when the country became united, more by accident than design, in 1859-61.

A Dictionary of Diplomacy

Author: G. R. Berridge and Alan James
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Like all professions, diplomacy has spawned its own specialized terminology, and it is this lexicon which provides A Dictionary of Diplomacy's thematic spine. However, the dictionary also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organizations and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or have written influentially about it over the last half millennium. All students of diplomacy and related subjects and especially junior members of the many diplomatic services of the world will find this book indispensable.

A Wider Europe

Author: Michael J. Baun
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

"This clear and engaging text examines the process and politics of the European Union's "Eastern" enlargement, beginning with its initial response to the 1989 revolution up through the Helsinki summit decisions of December 1999. Michael Baun explores such topics as the EU's original decision to enlarge, the pre-accession strategy for prospective members, the key political decisions on launching and expanding the accession negotiations, and the actual progress of the negotiations. He also examines the EU's efforts to reform its policies and institutions in advance of enlargement. Throughout, Baun weaves in understandable explanations of the complex multilevel process of EU decisionmaking. He concludes by considering the limits of enlargement and its consequences for the EU's future development."

Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science. 2004, Volume 39, Number 1

Author: Eds. Hans Keman and Marc Hooghe
Format: Journal
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Acta Politica is the official journal of the Dutch Political Science Association.

The prime objective of Acta Politica is to publish outstanding work reflecting research and developments of both a theoretical and empirical nature in all sub-areas of the discipline, including Dutch and comparative politics, international relations, political theory, public administration, and political communication.

After Progress

Author: Norman Birnbaum
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

In this scholarly, detailed, and methodically written study, Birnbaum author of leftist critiques of democratic, capitalist societies (The Crisis of Industrial Society)Ddocuments and analyzes the successes and failures of social reform in America and Europe in the last 50 years. He concludes that both European welfare-state parliamentary democracies and American presidential administrations led by Democrats Kennedy, Johnson, and Clinton have been undermined by an economic overemphasis on the value of consumption and the pervasiveness of an individualistic social ethic. Although Birnbaum has no magic solutions, he believes that government must act to control market forces to meet the social needs of its citizens and that government needs to focus on citizen education to create a citizenry that is "autonomous and critical," resulting in a rebirth of citizenship characterized "not by a promised land, but a terrain of dialogue and experiment." He believes that the majority of people living in democratic societies today fail to understand the delicate balance between their rights and their responsibilities as citizens of their country.

Against Eurocentrism

Author: Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

This work renders an uncompromising verdict on the scourge of our millennium: i.e. modernism, itself the artefact of certain Late Eurocentric propensities. It argues that, whilst modernism is possessed of some virtues and benignities, they are purchased at far too high a cost-indeed, a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. More urgently, the author holds that modernism imperils the existence of all species and the mother of all hospitalities, viz., the planet itself. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, as portrayed in the work, he further suggests that no other posture is at all, in the highest sense, ecologically responsible. We must, stated simply, he claims, break with the manifold paradigms of the European Enlightenment or find ourselves, soon enough, as mutant beings occupying an alien habitat.
This book goes far beyond the usual genre of critique by actually offering salves and antidotes to the enduring malaise of our times. It also offers a new paradigm for the human sciences locating it firmly in the species being of our hominid natures thereby annulling the spurious distinctions between "nature-culture", et.al. drawn by the European enlightenment. In particular, the book points to the "paradigm of femininity" as the potential agent of a very real, and realizable (and realized) emancipation from the delusive "utopias" of European, masculinist paternity. Finally, the book entreats us to re-evaluate our real placement in an evolving, self-fulfilling universe. 

Allies at Odds? The United States and the European Union

Author: Thomas S. Mowle
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? To answer that question, Allies at Odds thoroughly examines recent international efforts in arms control, environmental protection, human rights, and military cooperation. Evidence from twenty separate cases supports the expectations of the realist approach to international politics, which focuses on the role of power above all. Neither cultural factors nor international institutions have as much influence as some expect. This finding was as true during the Clinton Presidency as during the current Bush administration, indicating that focusing on personalities overlooks more substantial and longer-lasting differences between the Atlantic allies.

America's Viceroys: The Military and US Foreign Policy

Author: Ed. Derek S. Reveron
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

With the US armed forces playing an ever increasing central role in American foreign policy, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of regional Commanders-in-Chief (CINCs) in both implementing and shaping relations with various countries. Wielding tremendous power and substantial resources, both military and economic, these officers are also diplomats, advisors, and intermediaries between other countries and the Washington policy process. This book explores the role these military commanders play in contemporary U.S. foreign policy.

Another American Century? The United States and the World since 9/11

Author: Nicholas Guyatt
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

How does the US media propagate the myth of a "good" superpower waging war on "evil?" Can an open-ended "War on Terror" make the world safe? For whom? Another American Century? draws on our knowledge of the past decade to outline the effects and consequences of the USA's formidable power. It looks at how US policymakers understand their role in the world, and the ideologies that enable them to pursue policies with often harmful consequences for people outside North America.

Anti-Drugs Policies of the European Union

Author: Martin Elvins
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book is the first to trace the evolution of anti-drugs policies at European Union level from the late 1960s to the present. Phases of drug policy development, key policy actors and institutions are described with particular reference to the influence of transnational networks of expertise. Policy development is placed in the context of both European integration and a broad harmonization of international policies against drug trafficking. Concerns are also raised about secretive and anti-democratic features on intergovernmental EU decision-making.

Austria in Brief: Facts and Figures

Author: Dr. Alexandra Elmer and Dr. Helmut Wohnout
Format: Book
Country of origin: Austria
Description:

The brochure "Austria in brief" provides a compact overview of Austria's economy, its international ranking in important economic statistics, its political system and current developments in education, culture, media and sport.

Barren States: The Population "Implosion" in Europe

Author: Ed. Carrie B. Douglass
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

The fertility rate has dramatically declined across Europe in recent years. Globally over 64 countries have fallen below generation replacement levels and countries in eastern and southern Europe are registering the lowest birth rates in history. These developments could have serious repercussions for society and public policy--from a projected drastic loss of national population numbers to labor shortages and a swelling population of people over 65. This timely book investigates how people experience what is called "low fertility." How do people understand their choices and the perceived limitations on their lives? What is the meaning of motherhood for women today? And what does this tendency toward fewer births mean those who ultimately become demographic statistics?

Biodiversity and Local Ecological Knowledge in France

Author: Eds. Laurence Berard, Marie Cegarra, Marcel Djama, et al.
Format: Book
Country of origin: France
Description:

This book presents original contributions about the French experience, written by researchers from different disciplinary background, by experts and by politicians. It opens the way to collective, concise and critical thinking, and is aimed not only at negotiators, but also at anyone with an interest in local and indigenous ecological knowledge, with the intention of fueling debate, especially on the international scene.

Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy

Author: Eds. Sharon L. Wolchik and Jane L. Curry
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Now in a fully updated edition, this essential text explores the other half of Europe_the new and future members of the European Union along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage. Clear and comprehensive, it offers an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of the transformations and realities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Ukraine. Divided into two parts, the book presents a set of comparative country case studies as well as thematic chapters on key issues, including EU and NATO expansion, the economic transition and its social ramifications, the role of women, persistent problems of ethnicity and nationalism, and political reform. New to this edition is a chapter on Albania. Leading scholars provide the historical context for the current situation of each country in the region. They explain how communism ended and how democratic politics has emerged or is struggling to emerge in its wake, how individual countries have transformed their economies, how their populations have been affected by rapid and wrenching change, and how foreign policy making has evolved. For students and specialists alike, this book will be an invaluable resource on the newly democratizing states of Europe.

Challenges for Europe

Author: Hugh Stephenson
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Seven of the leading economists in Europe and the United States give their provocative views on key issues facing the future of Europe. The topics covered range from why Europe's growth rate is lower than America's and the experience of the Eurozone to the impact of education on the economy and the looming pension crisis.

Comparative European Politics. 2004, Volume 2, Number 1

Author: Eds. Colin Hay, Ben Rosamond, and Martin A. Schain
Format: Journal
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Comparative European Politics is a major international peer-reviewed journal on the comparative politics and political economy of contemporary Europe. Spanning political science, international relations and global political economy, the journal provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for research, theory and debate.

Comparing Local Governance: Trends and Developments

Author: Eds. Lawrence Rose and Bas Denters
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book provides a broad-ranging assessment of continuities and change in the condition of local governance in the western industrialized world; leading experts from a wide range of countries demonstrate the whole spectrum of types and models of local government systems and networks. A central focus is on the impact of public management reforms, new forms of community governance and changes in central-local relations.

Contemporary European Foreign Policy

Author: Eds. Professor Walter Carlsnaes, Helene Sjursen and Brian White
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This major new book introduces and examines the latest developments in European foreign policy. It provides a complete overview of the ways in which the very nature of foreign policy in Europe has changed and advances new insights into contemporary European foreign policy analysis.

The book is structured around three parts. Part one provides a concise overview of the latest theories and concepts in this growing field of study and research. Part two assembles and reviews a series of contemporary issue areas including security and defense, economic foreign policy, diplomacy, national cooperation, human rights, and sovereignty. Part three mirrors and builds on Part two by providing an applied case study to each of the preceding topics.

Throughout the book the authors address and incorporate both the national and European Union levels of foreign policy and explore the complex interactions between the two.

The result is a book that will be essential reading for all students and researchers seeking a deeper understanding of European foreign policy today and the wider implications for future foreign policy analysis in politics and international relations.

Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Perspective

Author: Thomas M. Magstadt
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Enhance your understanding of European politics with CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN POLITICS! With coverage of ideology, political culture, and social constructs of regions and countries, this political science text helps you comprehend the changing global order and the challenges that the United States will face in the years ahead. Case studies found throughout allow you to see how theory and concepts play out in real scenarios. Exam preparation is made easy with highlighted key terms, chapter overviews, summary and conclusions sections, and suggested readings.

Contemporary Political Theory. 2005, Volume 4, Number 1

Author: Ed. Gary Browning
Format: Journal
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Contemporary Political Theory is international in scope bringing together both Anglophone and continental European theory. It provides a forum for contributions that make connections across theoretical approaches, that cross disciplinary boundaries and that apply theory to practice.

Contesting Capitalism? Left parties and European integration

Author: Richard Dunphy
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book is a comparative and historical study of the impact of European integration upon the policies, ideology and future prospects of Left parties across the European Union. It is the first such study to focus upon parties to the left of social democracy--communist, "new left" and "green left" parties. The book highlights the broad range of responses to European integration that these parties have formulated--from pro-integrationist or pro-federalist positions to staunchly anti-integrationist views. It sets the emergence of such diversity in historical and theoretical context, paying attention to a broad range of factors that have influenced the evolution of the parties' European policies. Richard Dunphy examines the Left parties' views on how to build an "alternative Europe" that goes beyond free market capitalism.

Current Economic Issues in EU Integration

Author: Mark Baimbridge, Jeffrey Harrop and George Philippidis
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book examines selected topics on issues relating to current and future EU developments. In its initial sections, the book focuses on an array of wide-ranging micro (agriculture, industry and competition) and macro (EMU, regional convergence and enlargement) issues. A final section is reserved for discussion on Britain's future relationship with the EU. In particular, the book posits possible alternative strategies (e.g. NAFTA membership and policy frameworks) and examines these from both a theoretical and empirical perspective.

Dante's Rime

Author: Dante Alighieri
Format: Book
Country of origin: Italy
Description:

This collection of Dante Alighieri’s Canzoniere charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his Vita Nova and Divine Comedy developed. Inspired in his early poems by troubadour love poetry, Dante would later come to master all the genres of the time, such as the canzone, the sonnet and the ballad.

At the same time deeply personal – dealing with themes of love, death and exile – and imbued with the poetic and political context of the period, Dante’s Rime offers a fascinating glimpse into the imagination of arguably the greatest writer of all time.

Developments in West European Politcs. 2nd Edition

Author: Eds. Paul M. Heywood, Erik Jones and Martin Rhodes
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This completely new replacement volume of the highly successful Developments in West European Politics adopts an entirely reconceived framework focusing centrally on the capacity, legitimacy, effectiveness and resilience of the states of Western Europe and the challenges they face at the start of the new millennium. Bringing together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities it will be essential reading for students and specialists alike.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Author: Michel Foucault
Format: Book
Country of origin: France
Description:

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Dombey and Son

Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

To Paul Dombey, business is everything and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his little son, while his motherless daughter Florence craves affection from her unloving father, who sees her only as a base coin that couldn't be invested'. As Dombey's callousness extends to others - from his defiant second wife Edith to Florence's admirer Walter Gay - he sows the seeds for his own destruction. Can this heartless businessman be redeemed? A compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, "Dombey and Son" (1848) explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole.

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Format: Book
Country of origin: Spain
Description:

A sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman and his faithful friend set out to right the wrongs in the world.

Available in English and Spanish.

East, West, North, South: Major Developments in International Relations Since 1945. 5th Edition

Author: Geir Lundestad
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Fully revised and updated, the Fifth Edition of Geir Lundestad's successful textbook on the history of international politics since 1945 will serve as an ideal introduction for all students seeking an accessible guide to world events in the post-war era up to the present day. This new edition covers all the major international developments up to 2004, including a full assessment of 9/11, the 'war on terror' and the conflict in Iraq.

Economic Policy in the European Union

Author: Sixten Korkman
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Sixten Korkman gives an overview of the economic policies and the economic policy regime of the EU, including EMU and the internal market. He provides analysis of policy issues in the light of economic theory and examines critically the rationale for policy intervention at the EU level. The book also describes and explains the legal and institutional set up of the EU and illustrates issues of principle by referring to practical cases of EU deliberations.

Electronic Voting and Democracy: A comparative analysis

Author: Eds. Norbert Kersting and Harald Baldersheim
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Electronic and Internet voting has become increasingly widespread in recent years, but which countries are the leaders of the movement and who lags behind? Is the digital divide likely to present a permanent challenge to electronic democracy? What are the experiences with regard to online voting, and what are the arguments for and against? Electronic Voting and Democracy examines these issues and the contexts in which they are played out, such as problems of legitimacy and the practical considerations that have driven some countries toward electronic voting faster than others.

Enlarging the EU

Author: Ed. Pavlos Karadeloglou
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book assesses the impact that the accession of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia into the EU will have on trade. Specifically the effects on imports caused by changes in domestic demand or in relative prices resulting from trade liberalization and the removal of all trade barriers. It also looks at the effects that a change in competitiveness will have on exports. Finally it recommends fiscal, exchange rate and other policy measures, which must be adopted to reduce negative effects on the external stability of the economies.

Environmental Policy in the European Union

Author: John McCormick
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This is an accessible but sophisticated introduction to, and analysis of, the increasingly important role of the European Union in environmental policy. The book ranges widely over the emergence and evolution of the EU role in this critical field of policy, the relationship between policies made at the EU and member state levels, and the nature of the environmental policy process. The book ends with in-depth studies of EU activities in key policy areas--from air quality and waste management to global warming--and sums up the successes and failures of EU policy to date.

EU Development Cooperation: From model to symbol

Author: Eds. Karin Arts and Anna K. Dickson
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

It is increasingly recognized that EU development cooperation policy has failed to meet its stated aims. In this book Arts and Dickson ask the obvious and important question: if the policy doesn't work, why bother with it? The authors assess why EU development policy has become largely ineffective, citing among the external causal factors the liberalisation of trade, and the growing influence of US and international actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund upon EU policy. It also considers contributing factors within the EU such as the enlargement of its membership and the resulting shifts in priorities. It is this analysis of internal and external factors affecting the decline of EU development policy that makes this study both innovative and unique. It brings together an impressive range of contributors from different disciplines resulting in a thorough and intelligent assessment of the debate.

EU for You!

Author: Wolfgang Bohm and Otmar Lahodynsky
Format: Book
Country of origin: Germany
Description:

Die Europaische Union beeinflusst langst unser tagliches Leben. Erstmals wird mit diesem Buch auf einfache Weise und fur jeden verstandlich erklart, wie diese politische Gemeinschaft funktioniert.

Europe Recast: A History of European Union

Author: Desmond Dinan
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Europe Recast tells the story of European integration from its modern origins in the 1940s to the challenges of the new century. Dinan deftly captures the dynamics of the evolving debates about European unity. Examining the factors and forces that led to today's union, he brings ideas, interests, and actors to life. He has written a book that, combining an authoritative treatment of the subject and an engaging style, is an essential guide to unraveling the complexity of the EU system in the context of modern European history.

European Politics in Transition. 4th Edition

Author: Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Christopher S. Allen, et al.
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

A fascinating, critically acclaimed text, European Politics in Transition takes an innovative, comprehensive and authoritative look at the political systems in Great Britain France, Italy and Germany. Written by a prominent team of authors, the text examines Europe from the standpoint of the post-war settlements effects on each country's institutions, political economy and society. Coverage reflects recent turmoil in Europe and extensive material has been added on the European Community and Easter Europe. The clear, concise format includes tables to illustrate voting behaviour and elections while each section contains cartoons from newspapers as well as graphs and figures. Centred around four key themes

European Politics Today. 2nd Edition

Author: Patricia Hogwood and Geoffrey K. Roberts
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

In this new edition, Patricia Hogwood and Geoffrey Roberts offer a comprehensive introduction to the political systems and processes of Western Europe. The book begins with an overview of the features and events that have shaped the political landscape of Europe up to the end of the 20th century. The authors go on to discuss liberal democracy, historical sources of conflict between countries, electoral systems, political parties and interest groups, governments and parliaments. The final section looks at federalism and EU decision-making and concludes with a consideration of how liberal democracies in western Europe have attempted to provide stable government while remaining responsive to changes in society. This book has been fully updated to take account of the French, British and Italian general elections that have occurred in recent years, as well as the momentous changes that have taken place in global politics as a result 9/11, and the preparations for EU enlargement. The chapters on the European Union and democracy in Western Europe have also been substantially revised to take account of globalization and recent political corruption issues.

European Politics: A Comparative Introduction

Author: Tim Bale
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This is a major new thematically organized introductory text on European Politics covering West, Central and Eastern Europe in an integrated way. Illustrated throughout with a wide range of boxes, figures and tables, the book uses Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland as examples for systematic comparison throughout, adding consideration of a range of other countries as particularly relevant in each chapter to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to governance and politics across the whole continent.

European Union Enlargement

Author: Ed. Neill Nugent
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Since its first enlargement in 1973, expansion has become a way of life for the EU. The current round of enlargement is, however, unprecedented in its scale, in the diversity of applicants, and in the impact on EU structures and policies. This major new text brings together specially commissioned chapters to provide a coherent and comprehensive assessment of the historical and theoretical context of enlargement and its implications for the identity, governance, economics, policies and international role of the EU.

Europeanization, European Integration, and Financial Services: Developing theoretical frameworks and synthesising methodological approaches

Author: Kerry E. Howell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book deals with the political philosophy that underpins theories of European integration and develops an understanding of Europeanization based on downloading and up-loading. Downloading is the means by which EU policy is amalgamated with domestic legislation and institutions. Up-loading indicates the use of national governments or sub-national interests in the development of European integration processes. European integration takes place at the supranational level and in general, is distinct from Europeanization. Through a study of financial services regulation these processes are made explicit.

Even Closer Union: An introduction to European integration. 2nd Edition

Author: Desmond Dinan
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Ever Closer Union clearly and engagingly introduces the complexities of European integration. The 4th edition is fully revised and updated to take account of major changes in the EU, including full coverage of the impact of the Lisbon Treaty.

Eyewitness Travel Guides: Great Britain

Author: Ed. Carey Combe
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections--"Introducing Great Britain," "Region by Region" (including London and environs, Scotland, and Wales), "Traveler's Needs," and "Survival Guide"--the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London's double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You'll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Covent Garden, Westminster), as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way.

Faust

Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Format: Book
Description:

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever.

In German, not translated to English.

Foreign Capital in Developing Economies: Perspectives from the theory of economic growth

Author: Stefano Manzocchi
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This volume evaluates the pattern and the function of foreign capital in developing countries in a long-run perspective. The main conceptual instruments employed are the theory of economic growth and the techniques associated with recent advances in growth econometrics. Empirical work points out that there is no mechanical trade-off between the short-term dangers and the long-run gains from capital market integration, but growth benefits of foreign capital in transforming economies are conditional on an effective destination of the resources. Over-borrowing and excessive consumption are the main pitfalls in the short-run as in the long-run. Nevertheless, foreign capital can be conducive of faster growth and possibly higher welfare.

Freiburg

Author: Joachim Sterz and Karl-Heinz Raach
Format: Book
Country of origin: Germany
Description:

Lebens- und liebenswertes Freiburg. Im sonnendurchfluteten Land am Oberrhein liegt die Stadt, in der zwei von drei Deutschen am liebsten ihren Lebensabend verbringen mochten. Nicht von ungefahr: Wunderbare Bauwerke, wunderbare Landschaft, wunderbares Klima, wunderbare Menschen und wunderarer Wein machen Freiburg so einzigartig. Dieser Bildband ladt ein zu einem Spaziergang durch die engen Gassen, auf belebte und stille Platze, uber die Dacher und in die herrliche Umgebung. Eine Bild-Hommage an eine aubergewohnliche Stadt im deutschen Sudwesten.

French Politics. 2004, Volume 2, Number 1

Author: Eds. Andrew Appleton and Robert Elgie
Format: Journal
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

French Politics is a major international journal dedicated to the study of contemporary and comparative French politics, policy and society. The journal is an international and interdisciplinary forum for research, theory and debate.

Germany, Civilian Power and the new Europe: Enlarging NATO and the European Union

Author: Henning Tewes
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

In 1990, the future of Europe's international politics hinged on two questions. How would unification affect the conduct of German foreign policy? Would those institutions that had given security and prosperity to Western Europe during the Cold War now do the same for the entire continent, and if so, how? The intersection of these questions is the topic of this book which lucidly explores what made Germany's policies toward its immediate Eastern neighbors tick.

Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and change in Europe and North America

Author: Eds. Robin Hambleton, Hank V. Savitch and Murray Stewart
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Now in paperback, this book argues that cities and citizens are not helpless victims in a global flow of events. Three crucial questions are addressed through the three-part structure: What is the nature of the globalization? What resulting challenges now confront cities and localities? How can local leaders respond to this changing environment in ways which strengthen local democracy? Written by leading urban scholars in Europe and North America the book draws on a range of disciplines to enhance academic understanding and illuminate lessons for policy and practice.

Governing with Judges: Constitutional politics in Europe

Author: Alec Stone-Sweet
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This is the first comparative study written by a social scientist on the topic of European constitutional courts and their role in protecting human rights and defending new democratic institutions. Focusing on France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the European Union, the author traces the enormous impact of these courts on both legislative and judicial processes and outcomes, and explains why this impact continues to expand.

Government and Politics in Western Europe: Britain, France, Italy, Germany. 3rd Edition

Author: Yves Mény and Andrew Knapp
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

This new edition offers a clear and accessible comparative introduction to the political institutions of Western Europe's four largest countries: Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. It has been thoroughly revised to cover not only developments at a national level, but also the growing integration of national politics with the politics of the European Union.

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged.

Growth and Employment in Europe

Author: Martin Zagler
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth. He asks, both in theory and in evidence, whether a change in the growth rate of the economy will affect the level of unemployment which the economy experiences and whether a decline in the level of unemployment will foster or deteriorate the growth performance of the economy.

Hamlet and Oedipus: A Classic Study in the Psychoanalysis of Literature

Author: Ernest Jones
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Of the great number of psychoanalytic studies of literary subjects that have appeared during the recent past, this work by Freud’s biography and his greatest living disciple is by far the best. Dr. Jones beings with a comprehensive view of the Hamlet literature in  all languages and after discussing his objections to the previous explanations of the Hamlet problem points out that the true explanation can only lie, as is always the case with mysterious inhibitions, in the sphere of unconscious conflicts. The question of Hamlet’s being insane has long been debated, but Jones argues that the problem is rather more subtle than critics have so far admitted, for Hamlet’s malady, as Shakespeare gives it, was of that more frequent intermediate sort which nowadays goes by the name of psychoneurosis. Thus he undertakes a psychoanalytic investigation of Hamlet’s curious mind as it relates to the general psychological conditions foreshadowed in the Oedipus legend.

Higher Education Policy

Author: Ed. Guy Neave
Format: Journal
Country of origin: France
Description:

Higher Education Policy provides an international platform for the world community of higher education, for sharing information and experience, as well as ideas about the role of higher education in society today.

History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453. Volume 1

Author: Alexander A. Vasiliev
Format: Book
Country of origin: Russia
Description:

This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire.  It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject.  From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning.

History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453. Volume 2

Author: Alexander A. Vasiliev
Format: Book
Country of origin: Russia
Description:

This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire.  It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject.  From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning.

Imagining the Modern: The cultures of nationalism in Cyprus

Author: Rebecca Bryant
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades. Based on comparative research in both southern and northern Cyprus, the work demonstrates how the conflict emerged through Cypriots' encounters with modernity under British colonialism, and through a consequent re-imagining of the body politic in a new world in which Cypriots were defined as part of a European periphery. The book describes how Muslims and Christians in Cyprus were transformed into Turks and Greeks, and what it meant--epistemologically, ontologically, and politically--when they were.

Insight Compact Guide: Budapest

Author: Hans Latja
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Compact Guide Budapest. This 104-page book includes a chapter detailing Budapest's history and culture, 14 tours and excursions taking in sights ranging from the treasures of the Hungarian National Museum to the sulphur waters of the Lukcs baths, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus around 180 quality photographs and 13 maps.

Insight Compact Guide: Poland

Author: Sabine Herbener and Reiner Elwers
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Insight Compact Guides just get better and better and to further enhance their appeal, the Insight team have added many new features to help visitors get even more out of their holiday; New style back covers convincingly highlight the reasons to buy each book; New eye-catching spine design ensures high impact on bookshelves; New colour-coded bars enable readers to find their way around the book more quickly and easily; Extra 30 pages of information added offering unbeatable value and superb quality, in both photography and content; New, improved layout and typeface makes accessing key information even easier; Useful phrases included making Compact Guides even more practical travelling companions

Insight Guide: Barcelona

Author: Eds. Pam Barrett, Emily Hatchwell and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Pocket Guide Barcelona includes a chapter detailing Barcelona's history and culture, 14 itineraries and 4 excursions taking in sights ranging from the bookstalls and buskers on Las Ramblas to Sitges' Platja d'Or, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus high quality photographs and 13 maps, including a detailed pull-out map.

Insight Guide: Czech & Slovak Republics

Author: Alfred Horn
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children.

Insight Guide: Dublin & Surroundings

Author: Eds. Brian Bell and Liam McAuley
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This guide includes a section detailing Dublin's history, eight features covering aspects of the city's life and culture, ranging from James Joyce's "Ulysses" to the geniality of the locals, a visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Also featured are hundreds of photographs plus 12 maps.

Insight Guide: London

Author: Eds. Roger Williams and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children.

Insight Guide: Madrid

Author: Dorothy Stannard
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children.

Insight Guide: Prague

Author: Ed. Joachim Chwaszcza
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This guide includes a section detailing Prague's history, nine features covering the city's life and culture, ranging from Bohemian coffee houses to the purest examples of Art Nouveau architecture; a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and 13 maps, including a Metro system map.

Insight Guide: Turkey

Author: Eds. Melissa Shales, Emily Hatchwell, and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book includes a section detailing Turkey's history, 5 features covering aspects of the country's life and culture, ranging from the amazingly varied cuisine to the stupendous Bosphorus skyline, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of top-notch photographs and 21 maps.

Insight Guide: Vienna

Author: Jane Ladle
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,

Insight Guide Vienna. This 266-page book includes a section detailing Vienna's history, 4 features covering the city's life and culture, ranging from its great composer Franz Schubert to its historic artistic heritage, a visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many high quality photographs and 4 maps, including a map of Vienna's transport network.

Insight Guides: Athens

Author: Martha Ellen Zenfell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children.

Insight Guides: Holland

Author: Eds. Teresa Machan and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Insight Guide Holland includes a section detailing Holland's history, 6 features covering aspects of the Holland's life and culture, ranging from Flowers - A Way of Life to Modern Art, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many high quality photographs and 17 maps.

Insight Guides: Hungary

Author: Ed. Rachel Fox and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This guide includes a section detailing Hungary's history, eight features covering aspects of the country's life and culture, ranging from its gypsy way of life to its hot springs and spas, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. It also features hundreds of photographs and nine maps.

Insight Guides: Ireland

Author: Ed. Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book contains detailed coverage of the whole of Ireland, with chapters covering the major cities and every area, full color mapping throughout, and useful practical information.

Insight Guides: Paris

Author: Radola Scot
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

See the Sunrise in Montmartre, have Coffee in a Classic Cafe, Cycle up the Canal St-Martin, Relax in the Tuileries and Tour in a Classic Car; take a fresh approach to Paris with this "Step by Step" guide, part of a brand new, stylishly designed series from Insight Guides. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book features 20 irresistible self-guided walks and tours, written by a local expert and packed with great insider tips. Whether you are new to the city or a repeat visitor, this guide has something to suit all budgets, tastes, and trip lengths, showing you the smartest way to link Paris's sights and taking you beyond the beaten tourist track. As well as covering Paris's many classic attractions, the routes track lesser-known sights and up-and-coming areas; there are also excursions for those who want to extend their visit outside the city. All the walks and tours come with clear, easy-to-follow full-colour maps and hand-picked places to eat and drink en route. A 'Key Facts' box at the start of each tour highlights the recommended time needed to enjoy it to the full, plus the distance covered and a start and end point; all this makes it simple to find the perfect tour for the time you have to spare. The book also recommends top tours by theme and includes a special 'Only in' feature, highlighting a number of experiences or attractions that are unique to the destination. In addition, it has background information on food, drink and shopping, plus a Directory section with a clearly organised A-Z list of practical information and hotel and restaurant listings to suit all budgets. The guide also comes with a metro map and a free pull-out map, complete with street index and with the walks and tours clearly marked. This map is great for use both with and without the main book.

Insight Guides: Portugal

Author: Pam Barrett
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,

Insight Guide Portugal. This 394-page book includes a section detailing Portugal's history, 10 features covering aspects of the country's life and culture, ranging from coffee and cakes to painted ceramic tiles, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many exciting photographs and 18 maps.

Insight Guides: Scandinavia

Author: Eds. Jane Hutchings, Tom Le Bas, and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book includes a section detailing the history of Scandinavia, seven features covering aspects of the region's life and culture, ranging from its art and literature to its bountiful food and drink; a visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of top-notch photographs and 34 maps, as well as route maps of the capital cities' transport systems.

Insight Guides: Scotland

Author: Eds. Josephine Buchanan and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Full color guide to the whole of Scotland. Insight Guides cover a destination's History, People and Culture in more detail and with more color photos than any other guidebook.

Insight Guides: Spain

Author: Ed. Helen Parlington
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book provides everything you'll ever need in a guidebook. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superb souvenir of your visit. Evocative photography: Insight guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life the history, monuments, wildlife, cities and, above all, its people. Detailed, cross-referenced maps: All sites are clearly highlighted and numbered in relation to the text. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels, restaurants and phone numbers you'll need.

Insight Guides: Venice

Author: Eds. Lisa Gerard-Sharp, Roger Williams, and Brian Bell
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This guide includes a section detailing Venice's history, 16 features covering aspects of the city's life and culture, ranging from the romance and drama of opera to messing about in boats; a visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and 15 maps.

Internationalism and Nationalism in European Political Thought

Author: Carsten Holbraad
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Throughout modern European history, the international order of the continent has been conditioned by the interaction between competing trends of internationalism and diverse forms of nationalism. The goal of this book is to distinguish the various types of each, to indicate their origins, trace their development, and analyze their interplay. Carsten Holbraad identifies three major types of each approach: conservative, liberal, and socialist. By looking at all three for both internationalism and nationalism, it is evident that no school of thought has a monopoly on either approach. As a result, the study is able to present a broader and more complex view of the intellectual trends in European history and politics.

Key Aspects of German Business Law. 2nd Edition

Author: Eds. Bernd Tremml and Bernard Buecker
Format: Book
Country of origin: Germany
Description:

This book is the second edition of the well received Key Aspects of German Business Law. Due to the great number of changes in the German Civil Code and Tax Law, this edition is a particularly important and useful tool for those entering the German and European Union market. The book presents a clear and precise overview. It was written by attorneys involved in the daily practice of business law in Germany and the European Union, and is aimed at people who wish to orient themselves quickly with the German legal system and the manner in which it impacts business purchases, establishment, operations and liquidations. The first section of the book is devoted to an explanation of the major issues to be considered in acquiring or establishing a business in Germany, whereas the second section focuses on areas of special consideration. In both sections special attention has been paid to highlighting and explaining the differences between the German legal system and that of USA.

Key Aspects of German Business Law. 3rd Edition

Author: Eds. Bernd Tremml and Bernard Buecker
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

This book is the third edition of the well received Key Aspects of German Business Law. Due to the great number of changes in the German Civil Code and Tax Law, this edition is a particularly important and useful tool for those entering the German and European Union market. The book presents a clear and precise overview. It was written by attorneys involved in the daily practice of business law in Germany and the European Union, and is aimed at people who wish to orient themselves quickly with the German legal system and the manner in which it impacts business purchases, establishment, operations and liquidations. In all sections special attention has been paid to highlighting and explaining the differences between the German legal system and that of the United States. Though the intention is to provide information that will prove valuable to all foreigners, particularly business people and lawyers advising clients with an interest in doing business in Germany.

Language, Nation, and State: Identity politics in a multilingual age

Author: Eds. Tony Judt and Denis Lacorne
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

This book examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member nations is a crucial topic. Drawing on an international cast of contributors, the book explores the issues of monolingualism vs. plurilingualism within individual nations, the revival of languages in nations such as former soviet republics, and concludes with a look at language in the electronic age.

Le Petit Prince

Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Format: Book
Country of origin: France
Description:

Dans cette fable charmante, presentee ici en sa version originale, l'auteur nous raconte ses souvenirs de sa rencontre avec "un petit bonhomme tout a fait extraordinaire," habitant d'une autre planete qui n'est pas plus grande qu'une maison. Peu a peu nous apprenons l'etrange histoire de cette creature minuscule - le petit prince - et comment il a commence ses voyages vers sept planetes, qui l'ont apporte enfin a la Terre. En ce dernier lieu il apprend, grace a un renard, le secret le plus important de la vie.

Available in French and Spanish.

Liechtenstein: A Modern History

Author: David Beattie
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Liechtenstein--an Alpine curiosity? A haven for financial criminals? Or a success story in modern Europe? This book examines the reality behind the clichés. Liechtenstein's history has been dramatic and precarious. Several times it was in danger of vanishing from the map, most recently in 1939 when local Nazis tried to seize power and swallow the Principality into the Third Reich. Liechtenstein has a tiny population, no natural resources and the image of a less-than-serious fairy-tale kingdom with dubious banking laws which have often proved the bane of international tax authorities. But since the 1940s Liechtenstein has actually transformed itself into one of the most advanced hi-technology countries in Europe. This fascinating book charts the story of one of the world's most unlikely countries, revealing a strategy which its rulers and elite have used through the centuries to ensure its survival.

Literature of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Jefferson Butler Fletcher
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA

Lonely Planet: Belgium and Luxembourg

Author: Geert Cole and Leanne Logan
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Engaging accounts of Belgium's four great passions - food, chocolate, beer and biking. Comprehensive coverage of the jenever bars of Ghent, the brown cafes of Brussels and the hip clubs of Antwerp, plus hints and tips for travelling with children. Features over 30 pages of detailed maps.

Lonely Planet: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Author: Nicola Williams, Cathryn Kemp, and Debra Herrmann
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

The most comprehensive guide to the area, with a chapter on Russia's noncontiguous Kaliningrad region, this guide combines background information, cultural insights, and information on practicalities. Outdoor activities range from stork spotting to bobsledding and bungee jumping.

Lonely Planet: Greece

Author: David Willett, Carolyn Bain, and Des Hannigan
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Lonely Planet's Greece is an expert guide to this incredible country, covering everything from the narrowest walkable gorge in the world to classic Greek myths. The authors provide information on inter-island ferries accompanied by a ferry map; extensive writings on history, culture, and mythology; place names in Greek script; and advice on choosing a quiet or gregarious island vacation. A special color feature covers Greek art.

Lonely Planet: Slovenia

Author: Steve Fallon
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

The range and quality of outdoor activities in Slovenia make it something of a recreation magnet. This comprehensive guide includes 54 maps and covers all the fun along with historical, cultural, and practical information.

Lust auf Freiburg: Der Fuhrer ins Herz der Stadt

Author: Renate Heyberger and Hans-Albert Stechl
Format: Book
Country of origin: Germany
Description:

Guidebook to Freiburg in German

Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan

Author: Richard J. Samuels
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan.

Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism, the coming of fascism, imperial adventures, defeat in wartime, and reconstruction as American allies. Highlights of Machiavelli’s Children include new accounts of the making of postwar Japanese politics—using American money and Manchukuo connections—and of the collapse of Italian political parties in the Clean Hands (Mani Pulite) scandal. The author also tells the more recent stories of Umberto Bossi’s regional experiment, the Lega Nord, the different choices made by Italian and Japanese communist party leaders after the collapse of the USSR, and the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Ishihara Shintar on the contemporary right in each country.

Making Policy in Europe

Author: Eds. Professor Svein Andersen and Professor Kjell A Eliassen
Format: Book
Description:

What distinguishes this contribution from the growing collection of political studies of the European Union is the vision of the authors and the analytic framework it shapes. Too few studies of the EU seem sensitive to the complex nature of arenas within which political authority derives its legitimacy and political actors coordinate their responsibilities. The collection of essays offered by Andersen and Eliassen allows one to see you vividly the real significance of a European Union – the reinventing of political authority within Europe… This book grasps the fundamental point of which students must become keenly aware – political authority in Europe is no closer than ever to a true Europeification of conflict resolution and consensus development. This insightful and informatively edited volume exposes the full texture of evolution of policy-making in European Union… [an] important contribution to the literature on comparative politics, this volume will fill a void unfortunately too often left open by it predecessors.

Modern Politics and Government

Author: Alan R. Ball and B. Guy Peters
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This substantially revised seventh edition of a classic text includes a new chapter on globalization and regionalization and broader coverage of democratic politics, interests and movements; of the media; of social and cultural influences on political behavior and of public management. It has been systematically revised and updated throughout in the accessible down-to-earth style that has made it such a popular student choice for over thirty years.

Notre-Dame de Paris

Author: Victor Hugo
Format: Book
Country of origin: France
Description:

Three extraordinary characters are caught in a web of fatal obsession. France's most celebrated Romantic, Victor Hugo, vividly depicts medieval Paris, where all life is dominated by the massive cathedral. His passionate enthusiasm for Gothic architecture is set within the context of an epic view of mankind's history. Alban Krailsheimer's new translation presents a fresh approach to this monumental classic.

Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of criminals.

Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process

Author: L. Sandy Maisel
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Parties and Elections in America is a major revision of a well-respected text covering all aspects of the electoral process from historical roots to election year 2000. The new edition is completely revised and up to date, including data from the 1996 presidential election, the 1996 and 1998 congressional and statewide elections, and the early phase of the 2000 presidential election. Examples are drawn from races throughout the nation, tables and figures illustrate important points, and the reference list is one of the most comprehensive and current such compilations in contemporary studies of American government. Photos and cartoons round out the highly visual presentation. The book combines the perspective of political science and the latest research with an outlook from the real world of politics. Each chapter opens with a contemporary campaign vignette, concludes with "A Politician's View," and incorporates many examples of practitioner politics in between. The author is a noted scholar, teacher, writer, and politician who draws on all areas of his expertise in presenting this engagingly written and definitive account of parties and elections in the United States.

Petrarch to Pirandello: Studies in Italian Literature in honour of Beatrice Corrigan

Author: Ed. Vittorio Alfieri
Format: Book
Country of origin: Canada
Description:

Alfieri’s second treatise, The Prince and Letters, though first published in 1788, is as timely today as when he first wrote it. Vehemently rejecting Voltaire’s contention that the greatest periods of literature and art are all associated with the name of some reigning patron, such as Augustus or Louis XIV, he maintains that only in perfect freedom can supreme poetry be born. Though his examples are drawn from the Renaissance, from his own age, and from classical antiquity, his fundamental principles still apply, for the relation between the writer and the state has become increasingly complex. Vigorous in style, uncompromising in its demands for integrity in literature and in its lofty conception of the poet’s functions, The Prince and Letters shows the same abhorrence for absolute rule that characterizes its predecessor, Of Tyranny. Though it was translated into French as early as 1818, this is the first version in English.

The translation keeps close to the original text but renders it in smooth, clear English. The scholarship shows an intimate knowledge of Alfieri’s life and the political and cultural trends of his age. The book will be valuable for students of eighteenth century Italian literature and should also interest thoughtful people concerned about the ills of the twentieth century world.

Pioneer of European Integration and Peace, 1945-1963: A Brief History with Documents

Author: Sherrill Brown Wells
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

After the devastation of the Second World War, Western European leaders worked together to achieve what had eluded their predecessors after World War I: a lasting peace. Between 1945 and 1963, visionary men such as France's Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer laid the foundation for the creation of the European Union. In so doing, they inaugurated what has been a sixty-year period of peace and increasing cooperation among nations that had engaged each other repeatedly in warfare. Sherrill Brown Wells's collection of primary documents takes students through the evolution of European integration in the critical early years. Her cogent introduction describes the thinking and motivations of the most influential pioneers of European integration. Document headnotes, a glossary of acronyms and key figures, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Policy Making in the European Union

Author: Eds. William Wallace, Helen Wallace, and Mark Pollack
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

In recent years the European Union's membership has increased from 15 to 25 countries, it has adopted the Lisbon strategy for achieving greater economic competitiveness, taken steps towards a more purposive common foreign and defence policy, and significantly increased its efforts to deal with challenges to internal security. The new edition of this highly successful textbook brings the reader up-to-date with the range of core policy challenges facing the European Union and the ways in which they are being addressed. It includes a new chapter which lays out the primary questions of the book against the background of new research and a new chapter on employment policy which covers the major developments in this area.

Political Theory: An Introduction

Author: Andrew Heywood
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

The new third edition of the highly successful text has been revised and updated throughout to take account of new issues such as identity and difference, globalization and multiculturalism. The book provides a clear and accessible introduction to political theory and key concepts in political analysis. Each chapter discusses a cluster of interrelated terms, examines how they have been used by different thinkers and in the various political traditions, and explores related debates and controversies.

Politics UK

Author: Bill Jones, Dennis Kavanagh, Michael Moran, et al.
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

First published in 1991, Politics UK is now in its sixth edition and continues to provide the most comprehensive, elegant and up to date coverage of all aspects of the British political system. The book presents a detailed examination of the core elements of the British political scene divided into six classic parts: context, defining the political world, the representative process, the legislative process,  the executive process and the policy process.

The sixth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised and is now in full colour throughout.

Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association

Author: Eds. Nicholas Xenos and Michael Goodhart
Format: Journal
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Polity is a general political science journal published quarterly in partnership with the Northeastern Political Science Association. It includes articles, review essays, and occasional forums on a wide range of topics. Throughout its more than 30 years of publication, Polity has sought to provide lively, literate, and provocative contributions to scholarship.

Pour l'Europe

Author: Robert Schuman
Format: Book
Country of origin: France
Description:

Pour l'Europe est bien plus qu'un testament. La pensee de Robert Schuman eclaire encoure et toujours le chemin de l'Europe qui reste a construire. Elle indique le cap: une Union davantage portee par le peuple, une Union fondee sur la diversite de ses cultures et forte du rayonnement de ses valeurs dans le monde.

Realigning Interests: Crisis and Credibility in European Monetary Integration

Author: Michele Chang
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Why do currency crises happen? What conditions set the stage for such a crisis? How severe will it be? When will it happen? This book answers these questions, illustrating the points by examining the exchange rate realignments of the European Monetary System. It also shows how balancing the tension between domestic and international politics plays a vital part in a government's willingness to uphold its exchange rate commitments. The book pays particular attention to the role of domestic elections, since these may prevent governments from credibly committing to a fixed exchange rate and from responding quickly and coherently to market instability, thus encouraging speculation.

Redefining Transatlantic Security Relations: The Challenge of Change

Author: Dieter Mahncke, Wyn Rees, and Wayne Thompson
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

The transatlantic security relationship has been at the heart of cooperation since the onset of the Cold War and has been the foundation on which the stability of Europe has been built. But the post-Cold War period has raised major challenges for transatlantic relations as well as new security threats, such as terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking. These are fresh concerns in the sense that they have not been previously regarded as matters for US-European cooperation. Recent events such as the 1999 war in Kosovo, the European Union's decision to create a Rapid Reaction Force and the US policy of proceeding with a ballistic missile defence capability have all contributed to tensions in transatlantic relations. The transatlantic relationship has entered a new and highly uncertain period. This book looks at the three main facets of the transatlantic security relationship: the defense of Europe, global challenges, and new security threats.

Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Author: Eds. Professor Bridget Somekh and Dr Cathy Lewin
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

The book introduces all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods and seeks to draw readers into a community of researchers engaged in reflection on the research process. Included are narrative accounts of carrying out a research study that explore the way in which the research design and methods are shaped by the methodology, discussing problematic issues, and reflecting on the way in which knowledge and understanding develop. Aimed at researchers and postgraduate students, it will also be invaluable for students at masters level.

Shaping the New Europe: Economic Policy Challenges of European Union Enlargement

Author: Dariusz K. Rosati
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

The major economic policy issues related to the EU's eastern enlargement are analyzed in this collection. Issues range from macroeconomic policy change challenges during the transition to EU membership and experiences with financial sector reform in the light of EU accession, to the modeling of the economic effects of EU accession on EU incumbents and on candidate countries. The volume also draws on previous accession experiences and analyzes the major issue of disparities between the first- and second-tier candidate countries and the countries left out of the accession process altogether.

Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe: Legitimacy and Change

Author: Eds. Anthony Forster, Timothy Edmunds, and Andrew Cottey
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism. Soldiers and Societies in Post-Communist Europe explores how the interaction of the common challenges of post-communism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping patterns of military-society relations in this changing region. Detailed country case studies, written by international experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

Super State: The New Europe and its Challenge to America

Author: Stephen Haseler
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Even before Donald Rumsfeld's infamous "Old Europe" gibe, Europe's divergence from America on issues like war with Iraq and trade competition has become increasingly ill-tempered. With the Euro successfully launched and a European army a real prospect, Europe is now a recognizable political entity on the world scene. A population of over 300 million and the world's largest economy have already turned the EU into a super-power, but it is now on the verge of being a super-state. Haseler examines why the new European super-state has emerged, how it will inevitably rival the United States and how America is reacting to this new world player. Super-State explores what this new EU super-state means for the citizens of Europe and their attitudes to America, looking specifically at how a eurosceptic Britain will fit into this new structure.

Sustainable Architectures: Cultures and Natures in Europe and North America

Author: Eds. Simon Guy and Steven A. Moore
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO₂ emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or ecologically responsible, buildings, and being able to assemble the social resources to do so, requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There is wide contestation over the optimal pathways to greener buildings design and great diversity in practices of sustainable architecture.

This volume brings together leading researchers from across the European Union and North America both to illustrate the diversity of practice and to provide a critical commentary on this key debate. The reader is provided with an introduction to competing perspectives on the sustainable architecture debate, international exemplars of differing practice and an overview of new theoretical and methodological resources for understanding and meeting the conceptual, social and technical challenges of sustainable architecture.

Systems, Stability, and Statecraft

Author: Paul W. Schroeder
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Few scholars have provided as much insight into the struggle of leaders, ideas, and policies as Paul W. Schroeder. Constantly challenging conventional views, and drawing upon a masterly command of the sources and literature, Schroeder provides new answers to old questions about international history and politics since the age of Napoleon. Were European international relations really driven by balance of power politics, or has that traditional view blinded us to an underlying normative consensus on the "rules of the game" that frequently contributed to cooperation among the leading states in the system? Are alliances primarily a means of the aggregation of power against stronger states, or do states often use alliances as instruments of influence or control over their allies? Was World War I contingent upon a confluence of independent processes that intersected in 1914, or was it the product of more deeply-rooted and interconnected structural forces that pushed inevitably toward war? What is the role of moral judgment in historical investigation? Raising new questions and offering provocative new interpretations, Schroeder encourages historians and political scientists alike to reconsider their long-standing beliefs about the evolution and dynamics of modern diplomacy.

Tatsachen Uber Deutschalnd

Author: Arno Kappler and Stefan Reichart
Format: Book
Country of origin: Germany
Description:

Tatsachen Uber Deutschalnd ist ein Handbuch fur alle, die aktuelle und zuverlassige Informationen uber die Bundesrepublik Deutschland suchen. Die Ausgabe 2000 gibt in Wort und Bild Auskunft uber das Land und seine Bewohner, die staatliche Ordnung und das gesellschaftliche Leben, die politischen Krafte und Entwicklungen, die Wirtschaft mit allen ihren Zweigen und die kulturelle Vielfalt Deutschlands mit seinen 16 Bundeslandern.

The Baron In The Trees

Author: Italo Calvino
Format: Book
Country of origin: Italy
Description:

Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs.

The Basics: European Union

Author: Alex Warleigh
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Covering all the basics and more, this book is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to the study of the European Union, and for the general reader wanting to understand this increasingly important subject. Including useful boxes, tables and a glossary of all theoretical terms used, each highly structured chapter contains key learning points, making it an ideal guide for those with no prior knowledge of the subject.

Key content includes:

* the evolution of European integration
* institutions and decision-making in the European Union
* key policies of the European Union
* current controversies in European integration
* Which future for the European Union?

The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979

Author: Michel Foucault
Format: Book
Country of origin: France
Description:

What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century?  What crisis of governmentality characterises the present world and what revisions of liberal government has it given rise to?  This is the diagnostic task addressed by Foucault's study of the two major twentieth century schools of neo-liberalism:  German ordo-liberalism and the neo-liberalism of the Chicago School.  In the years he taught at the Collège de France, this was Michel Foucault's sole foray into the field of contemporary history.  This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics.  A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of homo oeconomicus.
 
Foucault's analysis also highlights the paradoxical role played by "society" in relation to government.  "Society" is both that in the name of which government strives to limit itself, but it is also the target for permanent governmental intervention to produce, multiply, and guarantee the freedoms required by economic liberalism.  Far from being opposed to the State, civil society is thus shown to be the correlate of a liberal technology of government.  

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny.

The Case for Europe: Unity, Diversity, and Democracy in the European Union

Author: Philippe De Schoutheete
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

The Case for Europe sets out the basic rationales and characteristics of the process of European integration that we have been witnessing for half a century. Philippe de Schoutheete, for ten years Belgium's permanent representative to the European Union, demystifies the structures of the EU, the basic forces and reasons that make it work, and the strengths and weaknesses of what has been achieved. He also points to the difficult questions the Union now faces: When to act? How best (and whether) to project power? How to respect diversity and reconcile competition and solidarity?

The Challenge of Change in EU Business Associations

Author: Ed. Justin Greenwood
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Key practitioners who work in and with EU business associations come together with leading policy makers from the EU institutions and researchers to analyze change factors for the associations and their role in EU policy making and implementation. Contributors include the Head of the team responsible for the EU White Paper on Governance, the Chair of the UK CBI Trade Association Forum, the Chair of the UK Political Studies Association, and the longest serving Secretary General of UNICE.

The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

Author: Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

It has been 25 years since Greek colonels staged a coup on Cyprus, ousting Greek-Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island. The island remains split in two, policed by the United Nations. Henry Kissinger claimed he could do nothing to stop this because of the Watergate crisis. The Cyprus Conspiracy provides crucial evidence that this was no failure of American foreign policy, revealing for the first time the explosive strategic reasons why Washington had to divide the island.

The Differend: Phrases in Dispute

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Jean-Francois Lyotard is, with Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze, one of the key figures in contemporary French philosophy. Like his immediate counterparts, he has been preoccupied with the present possibility of philosophical thought and its relation to the contemporary organization of knowledge. But, unlike them, he has been explicitly concerned with the ethical, social and political consequences of the option under investigation. In The Differend, Lyotard subject to scrutiny – from the particular perspective of his notion of ‘differend’ (difference in the sense of dispute) – the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised, and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno

Author: Dante Alighieri
Format: Book
Country of origin: Italy
Description:

If a recent spate of new translations is any evidence, Dante remains as popular as ever with the general reading public. Durling's new verse translation of the Inferno joins recent versions by Robert Pinsky (LJ 1/93) and Mark Musa (LJ 3/1/95). While Durling's translation (with Italian on the facing page) does not use Dante's rhyme or line divisions, it captures the metrical rhythm of the original. Similarly, his rendering of Dante's diction is literal and accurate, conveying the tone and feel while remaining accessible. Supplemented with an introduction, useful notes, and appendixes, this version, soon to be joined by Purgatorio and Paradiso, can be recommended to the general reader. In a new reader's guide to the Divine Comedy, Gallagher, a Catholic priest as well as a poet and scholar, presents the Comedy canto by canto in a series of mini-essays that discuss content, themes, characters, major allusions, and religious doctrines, particularly from the perspective of Dante as a Christian. For a more scholarly commentary on Dante's language and sources, one should still consult Charles Singleton's translation (The Divine Comedy, 6 vols., Princeton Univ., 1970-75); nevertheless, Gallagher's thorough, lucid, and accessible guide is a good starting point for the general reader.

Grade level 1: 672 pages

The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias

Author: Rene Dubos
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

One of the final non-fiction candidates for the national Book Award in 1962, The Dreams of Reason analyzes the relationship between the scientific community and the lay public. Dr. Dubos examines the role of social forces in determining the goals of science and considers what the scientist owes to society as a whole and what benefits the layman may legitimately expect from science. Since scientific technology is capable of producing almost any desired result, Dr. Dubos maintains that there can be no question of regarding science and the humanities as “two cultures.” The very power of science makes each technical problem also a problem in ethics, and the long-term consequences of every scientific undertaking must be considered. In Goya’s words, “the dreams of reason can produce monsters” – unless, as Dr. Dubos argues, they are supplemented by direct observation of the world outside the study and the laboratory.

The Economics of Enlargement: Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy

Author: Ed. Stefano Manzocchi
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

In this volume, well-known scholars examine the challenges facing the EU at the start of the Eastern enlargement, whose first wave should be decided at the end of 2002 and implementation in 2004-2006.

The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime

Author: Ed. Sandra Braman
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

There is a struggle over governance of the global information network among national governments and international organizations, corporations and NGOs, elites and civil society. The outcome will determine how we communicate, the extent of our civil liberties and human rights, the profitability of e-commerce, and the richness of cultural expression. This collection looks at the processes by which the global information policy regime is being formed - themselves in conflict - as a foundation for understanding its emergent features.

The Emerging European Union

Author: David M. Wood and Birol A. Yesilada
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Praised for its writing style, organization, and attention to historical detail, this thoroughly updated new edition presents readers with a comprehensive analysis of the history, framework, and agenda of the European Union. Raising a variety of important issues, the book focuses on the uniqueness of the European Union as an organization and helps readers to critically consider its future. For those interested in European politics.

The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe

Author: Eds. Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of ethnopolitics in Europe. It details the dynamics of the political mobilization of ethnic groups across the continent and its consequences for domestic and international politics. Written by recognized experts in the field and following a clear structure, this is an essential reference work for any student of contemporary Europe, allowing for systematic cross-national and cross-community comparisons. It also serves as a unique data source on the continent's politically mobilized ethnic groups. The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe is the first work of its kind that systematically and rigorously examines the politics of ethnicity throughout the continent as a whole. Rather than indulge in a tour of Europe designed to unearth as many diverse population groups as possible, the Encyclopaedia is focused and serves as a unique data source on the continent's politically mobilized ethnic groups. In order to facilitate easy access, the various regions of Europe are assessed and then the nature of the politics of ethnicity is analyzed on a country-by-country basis. The combination of incisive entries, maps, tables and easy-to-use country guides makes this an invaluable reference book for both academics and practitioners.

The European Parliament

Author: David Judge and David Earnshaw
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This broad-ranging text examines the political dynamic of the European Parliament within the developing European Union and sets it in the broader context of comparative legislative analysis. To this end the authors analyze the roles performed by the European Parliament as a "legislature;" its part in the EU's decision making process; and its contribution to crucial debates about democracy, legitimacy and the "parliamentarization" of the European Union.

The European Policy of the German Social Democrats: Interpreting a Changing World

Author: James Sloam
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book examines the EU policy of the German Social Democrats (SPD) after German unification, following their rise to power in 1998 and their record in office under Chancellor Schröder. The study deals with policy formation in the SPD through an analysis of the opportunity structures for policy-making in the EU, Germany and the party itself.

The European Union and Enlargement: The Case of Cyprus

Author: George Christou
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Given the current unrest in the Middle East, this book evaluates the ability of the European Union through enlargement to prevent a potential conflict developing between key actors in the near-eastern Mediterranean region; namely Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. Cyprus and the Cyprus issue will become increasingly important in the next few years given the completion of accession negotiations, and the signing of the Accession Treaty in April 2003 between Cyprus and the European Union. Therefore the book seeks to illuminate the limitations and constraints on the EU policy towards Cyprus, but also the potential "positive impact" that the EU might have on the Cyprus issue and east Mediterranean regional stability in the short, medium and long term, through inclusion of both Cyprus and Turkey as enlargement candidates.

The European Union: Dilemmas of Regional Integration

Author: James A Caporaso
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Challenges and Dilemmas of European Union is a readable, informative volume for students and instructors of introductory and intermediate courses in international relations and comparative politics.

Challenges and Dilemmas of European Union is a readable, informative volume for students and instructors of introductory and intermediate courses in international relations and comparative politics. Since the daily activities of the European Union cut across the comparative/IR distinction, the book will prove useful in both courses.

Caporaso is careful to begin with a detailed chapter that provides readers with important, historical, background information. He then deals with prevalent dilemmas such as the struggle between sovereign states and the thick networks provided by international institutions and international economic interdependencies, the external impact of the European Union, the political changes that have occurred due to developments in economic integration, changes in the relations between employers and workers, and changes in the nature of social democracy, or the welfare state. Caporaso also includes a discussion of the implications of the aforementioned dilemmas by providing alternative scenarios, rather than by making formidable predictions.

The European Union: How Does it Work?

Author: Eds. Elizabeth Bomberg and Alexander Stubb
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This short introductory text de-mystifies the European Union's structures and operation. Blending scholarly expertise and practitioners' experience, the authors introduce and analyse the EU's key actors, processes and developments. The book's overall aim is to provide an accessible, lively introduction to how the EU works and why it matters.

The Europeanization of British Environmental Policy: A Departmental Perspective

Author: Andrew Jordan
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Almost all aspects of modern politics have been deeply Europeanized, yet we know surprisingly little about how the EU affects the inner workings of national government. This book conceptualizes the profound Europeanization of British environmental government and policy both as a lagged response to European integration and as an important determinant of Britain's contribution to that process. By combining political theories of the EU with new empirical research, Andrew Jordan offers a genuinely fresh perspective on the evolution of modern European governance.

The German Polity

Author: David P. Conradt
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Updated through the 1999-2000 CDU party finance scandal, the Seventh Edition of this classic book offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to modern German politics. The book emphasizes the structural and attitudinal changes that have taken place over the past half-century, as well as the policy problems facing the unified political system. Germany's expanding international role, its increasing integration into a unifying Europe and the problems associated with the return to Berlin are carefully described and analyzed. For those interested in modern German politics.

The Global Competitiveness Report, 2004-2005

Author: Eds. Michael E. Porter, Klaus Schwab, Xavier Sala-I-Martin, et al.
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

The World Economic Forum's annual Global Competitiveness Report evaluates the potential for sustained economic growth of over 100 economies and ranks them accordingly. Since it first release in 1979, the Report has become the most authoritative and comprehensive study of its type.

The 2004-2005 Report Contains:
*Detailed country competitiveness provides of 104 economies
*Data tables for survey and hard data variable ranking profiled economies
*Complementary global rankings: the Growth Competitiveness Index (GCI) and the Business Competitiveness Index (BCI), measuring growth and productivity respectively
*Exclusive Data from the Executive Onion Survey, with over 8,700 responses from business leaders worldwide.

Produced in collaboration with a distinguished group of international scholars and a global network of over 100 leading national research institutes and business organizations, the Report also showcases the latest thinking and research on issues of immediate relevance for business leaders and policy-makers.

The Iliad

Author: Homer
Format: Book
Country of origin: Greece
Description:

In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.

The Multinational Enterprise, EU Enlargement and Central Europe: The Effects of Regulatory Convergence

Author: Yusaf H. Akbar
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

As the role of the multinational enterprise (MNE) in the economic development of countries grows, a focus on how MNEs influence the process of regulatory and legislative structures has developed among scholars of international political economy. Yusaf H. Akbar draws a conceptual link between the market strategies of MNEs and the convergence of regulatory systems internationally. Focusing on empirical evidence from Central Europe and industry-specific case studies, Akbar uses the example of the successful implementation of EU laws in Hungary as it bids to join the EU to demonstrate the profound impact of MNE strategies.

The New Mandarins: How British Foreign Policy Works

Author: John Dickie
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Not since Anthony Eden's Suez War of 1956 has Britain's foreign policy provoked such intense controversy. But how are British foreign policy decisions taken? How does British diplomacy actually work? For generations the Foreign Office operated as an elitist, secretive institution resisting intrusion and change. Now this book reveals the revolution which transformed the Foreign Office. John Dickie describes for the first time how the new mandarins are tested, selected, trained and promoted in Britain's Diplomatic Service. His unrivalled knowledge has enabled him to illuminate the structures of foreign policy making in London, the relationships between career diplomats and the Foreign Secretary, and the workings of the backroom experts connected to shadowy, powerful figures in other capitals. Dickie discloses much that was not previously known, such as the operations of the Anglo-American Intelligence network; the distrust of Britain's European partners; the "brain trust" of academics who provide intellectual rationale for policies; the ways in which foreign policy is affected from the outside through M.P.s, think-tanks, campaigning non-government-organizations and the media.

The Odyssey

Author: Homer
Format: Book
Country of origin: Greece
Description:

Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. The Noonday Press is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work.Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.

Of the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition.

The Pastoral Poems (The Ecologues)

Author: Virgil
Format: Book
Country of origin: Italy
Description:

The Roman poet Virgil adapted pastoral into Latin with his highly influential Eclogues. Virgil introduces two very important uses of pastoral, the contrast between urban and rural lifestyles and political allegory most notably in Eclogues 1 and 4 respectively. In doing so, Virgil presents a more idealized portrayal of the lives of shepherds while still employing the traditional pastoral conventions of Theocritus.

The Political Economy of the Monetary Union

Author: Malcolm Levitt and Christopher Lord
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

The Political Economy of Monetary Union provides a systematic assessment of the inextricably linked politics and economics of monetary union. The authors explain clearly what monetary union is and its history as both concept and reality. They analyze the evolution of thinking and policy on the single currency in the European Union up to and from the Maastricht model, through decisions on membership and establishment of the Central Bank, to the introduction of the European Monetary Union. They then proceed to assess the organizational and policy implications of the European Monetary Union and its significance within the general processes of European integration. The book represents a unique partnership between a practicing city advisor whose previous work from 1989 onwards influenced official thinking on the concept of a single currency, the need for a clearly defined and phased transition scenario, and an unambiguous legal framework, in collaboration with an acknowledged academic expert on the political and institutional context and structures within which EMU has evolved. The result is a synthesis of economic and political analysis which provides a broad ranging overview informed by telling detail based on direct observation. While drawing on a considerable body of technical and academic research, it provides an intelligible and objective guide to EMU for students and public and private sector practitioners.

The Politics of Exclusion: Institutions and Immigration Policy in Contemporary Germany

Author: Simon Green
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

The Politics of Exclusion provides a new analytical perspective on immigration in Germany, tracing the country's immigration and citizenship policy since the Second World War. The book argues that institutional politics are central to understanding why Germany's policy structures have experienced only incremental change over the past twenty years, and have remained comparatively restrictive.

The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World

Author: Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

Amateur psychologist, soothsayer, patriot-these are some of the roles adopted by journalists in covering political news, according to Jamieson and Waldman (Annenberg Public Policy Ctr.). By forcing the news into "frames" that correspond to these roles, reporters determine which elements of a story to play up and which to ignore. To illustrate this disturbing phenomenon, the authors cite numerous recent examples, from media complicity in spreading campaign fabrications to the influence of journalists on the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. The only appropriate role for the news media to adopt, the authors maintain, is that of "custodian of fact." Too often, they argue, reporters simply analyze the strategies used by opposing sides rather than sorting out the facts behind the issues. While acknowledging that the truth can be elusive, the authors cite a few exemplary cases of journalistic integrity and fact finding. This important book, which demonstrates that media distortion is far too complex and insidious to be explained by mere liberal or conservative bias, belongs in all journalism collections.

The Price of the Euro

Author: Ed. Jonas Ljungberg
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This volume presents a critical examination of the EMU from different perspectives. It includes essays on the political economy of currency unions, on the Growth and Stability pact, the European Central Bank, an evaluation of the first four years of the EMU, and the costs and benefits for Sweden as well as for Britain of adopting the euro.

The Social Construction of Europe

Author: Eds. Dr Thomas Christiansen, Knud Erik Jorgensen, and Dr Antje Wiener
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book is the first to systematically introduce and apply a social constructivist perspective to the study of European integration. Social constructivism is carefully located in terms of its philosophical and methodological origins. The wider debates and contribution of constructivist approaches to international relations are reviewed, and the insights that might then be afforded to European studies fully explored.

The State of the European Union: Deepening and Widening

Author: Eds. Pierre-Henri Laurent and Marc Maresceau
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

The struggle between those who seek a more integrated, and even federal, Europe and those proposing a looser confederation was once again highlighted at the 1996-1997 Intergovernmental Conference, and reflected in the IGC's decisions. This fourth volume in the European Community Studies Association's biennial series examines the divisions within the EU in the key areas of the common foreign and security policy, European monetary union, enlargement and structural reform.

The United Nations: An Introduction

Author: Sven Bernhard Gareis and Johannes Varwick
Format: Book
Country of origin: Germany
Description:

This major new text provides a systematic introduction to the main areas of activity of the United Nations today and to its organization and evolution as well as an evaluation of its likely role and prospects for reform in the twenty-first century.

Transforming the European Nation-State

Author: Professor Kjell Goldmann
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

This book introduces and maps the complex interaction between internationalization, nation-state and democracy to provide a new basis for understanding political change in contemporary Europe. The book introduces the concept of internationalization, of the internationalization process; assesses the impact and implications for nation-states, national identities and political cultures; and addresses the problem of making internationalized democracy work at national and European levels. Throughout the text, theoretical ideas and concepts are accessibly introduced and illustrated with a wide range of empirical examples from across Europe.

Transport Policy in the European Union

Author: Handley Stevens
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Transport policy was regarded sufficiently important to warrant its own title in the Treaty of Rome as an obvious and essential complement to the freedom of movement of persons, goods, services and capital. This book explores why European transport policies, caught in a complex web of practical, political and institutional pressures, were so slow to develop until driven forward with the internal market, and why any comprehensive and coherent policy may still prove elusive.

Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America

Author: Andrei S. Markovits
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

No survey can capture the breadth and depth of the anti-Americanism that has swept Europe in recent years. From ultraconservative Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of disdain for America. For the first time, anti-Americanism has become a European lingua franca.

In this sweeping and provocative look at the history of European aversion to America, Andrei Markovits argues that understanding the ubiquity of anti-Americanism since September 11, 2001, requires an appreciation of such sentiments among European elites going back at least to July 4, 1776.

While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe, Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward things American embrace aspects of everyday life--such as sports, language, work, education, media, health, and law--that remain far from the purview of the Bush administration's policies. Aggravating Europeans' antipathies toward America is their alleged helplessness in the face of an Americanization that they view as inexorably befalling them.

More troubling, Markovits argues, is that this anti-Americanism has cultivated a new strain of anti-Semitism. Above all, he shows that while Europeans are far apart in terms of their everyday lives and shared experiences, their not being American provides them with a powerful common identity--one that elites have already begun to harness in their quest to construct a unified Europe to rival America.

Understanding Public Opinion

Author: Eds. Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox
Format: Book
Country of origin: USA
Description:

In this highly anticipated revision, Understanding Public Opinion captures the diversity in public opinion research with 12 fully-updated essays, including 10 new to this edition. In straightforward prose, contributors highlight the many approaches that social scientists use to explore public opinion while exposing readers to innovative research. Covering such topics as how issues of race and media surrounding Hurricane Katrina affected public attitudes and the rise and fall of public support for George W. Bush, Understanding Public Opinion expands on important ideas that basic textbooks only cover briefly. It is the ideal supplement for any public opinion course.

We are the Romani People

Author: Ian F. Hancock
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

The author, who is himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their health, food, culture and society. He offers candid frank advice on rejecting prejudices and stereotypes and getting to know Roma as individuals. He describes the development of Roma identity and politics, gives short biographies of prominent Roma in many different walks of life, describes the Romani language and illustrates it with proverbs providing an insight into Roma thought and belief. It is extensively illustrated and provides a rare inside view into the life and society of the Roma people. This book is published in association with OSI, New York, a charitable foundation whose aims include supporting equality of opportunity for the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe.

West European Politics

Author: Eds. Patricia Hogwood and Geoffrey K. Roberts
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

A perfect companion to European Politics Today, written by the same authors, this book presents past events, prominent personalities, important dates, organizations, and electoral information in an accessible, easy-to-read format. It is split into five sections for ease of use: a dictionary of significant political events, a chronology of major events in Europe since 1945, a biographical dictionary, a dictionary of political organizations, and electoral data. In addition to being a comprehensive reference tool, this book will provide a sound historical background to the development of Western European politics.

Wie viel Einigung braucht Europa?

Author: Hans Arnold
Format: Book
Country of origin: Germany
Description:

Aus realpolitischer Sicht zeigt der fruhere Spitzendiplomat Hans Arnold nicht nur die viel diskutierten Moglichkeiten, sondern auch die haufig ubersehenen Grenzen der Europapolitik auf. Er analysiert mit undiplomatischer Deutlichkeit die Zukunft des Euros, der europaischen Auben- und Sicherheitspolitik und der europaisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, aber auch den Fall Turkei und weitere aktueele Probleme.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Book
Country of origin: Great Britain
Description:

Penguin Putnam shows true strength of Will by gathering all the titles in its Pelican Shakespeare line into a single, beautiful volume.