The history of reading

Eds. Shafquat Towheed, Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey. "The History of Reading" offers an engaging, accessible overview from the rise of literacy through to the current trend of 'book clubs'. Divided into seven sections, each with a useful introduction, this Reader: summarises the main debates and ...

Ending terrorism

lessons for defeating al-Qaeda

Terrorism, like war, never ends; but individual terrorist campaigns and the groups that perpetuate them always do. Why? This Adelphi Paper comparatively examines the waning days of terrorist groups, to understand crucial points where a critical mass of factors developed and led toward their demise ...

Premodern trade in world history

Trade and commerce are among the oldest, most pervasive, and most important of human activities, serving as engines for change in many other human endeavors. This far-reaching study examines the key theme of trading in world history, from the earliest signs of trade until the ...

Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers

The United States and her allies have found themselves plunged into #a war over [humanity#s] future social and political organization# with criminal challengers to the nation-state form. These new wars are currently being fought globally with Al Qaeda, in Iraq with shifting coalitions of ...

International negotiation in the twenty-first century

Never have international relations between nations been so complex as in the current political climate. In this contemporary world, international negotiation has become a combination of traditional diplomacy and the modern framework of conferences, multi-party institutions and organizations such as the European Union. While this ...

Strategy and history

essays on theory and practice

"Debating Strategy" comprises a selection of Professor Gray's key contributions to strategic debate over the past thirty years. These essays have been selected both because they had significant messages for contemporary controversies, "and" because they have some continuing relevance for today and the future ...

Campaign contributions and legislative voting

a new approach

This book studies the current paradox within the voting literature on campaign contributions and legislative voting behavior. Table of Contents: 1 Interest groups and policy making 2 The effects of contributions on the representative process 3 John Doolittle and the California trial lawyers association 4 ...

Globalizing roman culture

unity, diversity and empire

The moral Law

groundwork of the metaphysic of morals

Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's "The Moral Law". In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamental principle 'morality' that governs human action. In strikingly fresh ...

International sanctions

between words and wars in the global system

The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in ...

Cohesion and discipline in legislatures

political parties, party leadership, parliamentary committees and governance

The existence of noticeable 'unified' parties is central to the theory and practice of democracy in general, and to parliamentary democracy in particular. However, legislative studies scholars have good reason to cease treating parties as monolithic, unitary actors, for they evidently are not. The first ...

The fall of the roman Republic

Revised and updated to include the latest research in the field, this second edition of a popular history text examines how the Roman republic was destabilised by the unplanned growth of the Roman empire. Central discussion points include: - the government of the republic - how certain ...

Religion, democracy and democratization

A new exploration of the troubled relationship between religion and democracy, focusing in on two key questions: how has religion engaged with the democratization processes that have taken place over the last thirty years? and how can it contribute towards democracy in the future? These ...