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![Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective]()
Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Jonathan Bradshaw, Aksel Hatland
This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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![Generational Shockwaves and the Implications for Higher Education]()
Generational Shockwaves and the Implications for Higher Education
Edited by Donald E. Heller, Madeleine B. d’ Ambrosio
This volume, part of the TIAA-CREF Institute Series on Higher Education, is based on a national conference convened by the Institute in November 2007. The generational issues that were the focus of the conference raise both risks and opp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Shadow Economy, Corruption and Governance]()
The Shadow Economy, Corruption and Governance
Edited by Michael Pickhardt, Edward Shinnick
This book contributes to the current debates on the shadow economy and related issues of tax evasion and corruption. The approach taken here is one that will develop a better understanding of these related issues, which are increasingly ... -
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![The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries]()
The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
Edited by Benjamin Coriat
The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it asse...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regulatory Impact Assessment
Edited by Colin Kirkpatrick, David Parker
Better state regulation is a key component of economic reform. This is the first book to comprehensively explore international experience in the use of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), which involves assessing the potential benefits a...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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International Terrorism and Threats to Security
Edited by Ronald J. Burke, Cary Cooper
This original collection examines the managerial and organizational implications of international terrorism and threats to security. When Islamic terrorists flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center on 9/11, it changed much of ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Trade and Health Protection
Tracey Epps
This book examines and critiques the WTO’s Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement), asking whether it strikes an appropriate balance between conflicting domestic health protection and trade lib...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Peace in Northeast Asia
Thomas J. Schoenbaum
This book takes an in-depth look at Japan’s long-festering territorial and maritime disputes with its three neighbors – China, South Korea and the Russian Federation. Japan has established friendly relations with all three former adversa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Peace Movements and Pacifism after September 11]()
Peace Movements and Pacifism after September 11
Edited by Shin Chiba, Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Noted international scholars from a range of disciplines present in this book Japanese and East Asian perspectives on the changed prospects for international peace post September 11. Because East Asia has not been preoccupied with the on...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Governance and Law
Edited by Hanneke van Schooten, Jonathan Verschuuren
Around the world, the role of national regulation is often hotly debated. This book takes as its starting point the fact that legislatures and regulators are criticized for overregulation and for producing poor-quality regulation which i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment
Edited by Christoph Beat Graber, Mira Burri-Nenova
In the face of increasing globalisation, and a collision between global communication systems and local traditions, this book offers innovative trans-disciplinary analyses of the value of traditional cultural expressions (TCE) and sugges...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Leadership Dilemma in Modern Democracy
Kenneth P. Ruscio
It is impossible to imagine effective democracies without effective leaders. Yet leaders are often seen as the problem democratic governance is designed to solve, not the solution. Through a careful but lively critique of some of the cla...
