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  • Feudal Society and Its Culture

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Victor Rutenburg ...
    Translated by Barry Jones ...
    One of the more ambitious books Progress ever sent abroad, and one of the least polemical: a collaborative world history of the Middle Ages by a group of scholars from Moscow and Leningrad, edited by the medievalist Victor Rutenburg.Its subject is not a country or a century but a whole epoch taken globally - Western Europe and Byzantium, Russia, the Arab and Iranian lands, North Africa, Ethiopia, ... Read more

    $6.80 USD

  • Socialist Internationalism

    Theory and Practice of International Relations of a New Type - With a New Critical Introduction

    by S. Anghelov ...
    Translated by Barry Jones ...
    Series Book 211 - The Progress Publishers Library
    Not a monograph but a treaty in book form.It carries no single author. An editorial board of eleven represents seven countries - Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the USSR - under the general editorship of S. Anghelov of Bulgaria, who also wrote the introduction, with some thirty contributors listed section by section: Butenko and Novopashin ... Read more

    $5.05 USD

  • A Modern History, 1640-1870

    With a New Critical Introduction

    Edited by Ye. Yurovskaya ...
    Series Book 279 - The Progress Publishers Library
    A university textbook of modern European and world history covering the two centuries the Soviet syllabus treated as the age of bourgeois revolution: from the English revolution of 1640 to the eve of the Paris Commune.Its span takes in the English civil war, the Enlightenment, the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic wars and the Restoration, industrialisation and the rise of the ... Read more

    $3.60 USD

  • The Penalty Is Death

    state power, law, and justice

    Edited by Barry Jones ...
    An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty Is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria — the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital punishment had been abolished as the penalty for murder in only 30 nations, although there was a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Shock of Recognition

    The books and music that have inspired me

    by Barry Jones ...
    'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, to encourage the pursuit of an abundant life of reading and listening.Following the publication ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What Is to Be Done

    political engagement and saving the planet

    by Barry Jones ...
    A follow-up to the author’s prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society.When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by Deng Xiaoping and Bill Gates; was published in China, Japan, South Korea, and Sweden; and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy

    Edited by R. J. Barry Jones ...
    This three volume Encyclopedia offers the first comprehensive and authoritative survey of the rapidly developing field of international political economy. Its entries cover the major theoretical issues and analytical approaches within the field. The set also provides detailed discussion of the contributions of key individuals and surveys a wide range of empirical conditions and developments within ... Read more

    $860.00 USD

  • Childhood Disability in a Multicultural Society

    by Barry Jones ...
    People from different cultural backgrounds prefer adhering to their own religious beliefs which could restrict treatment options leading to the detriment of health, especially if it involves the health of a disabled child.This comprehensive but concise work highlights the problems faced in managing the care of disabled children from different cultural backgrounds. It examines the problems inherent ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Moscow Still Ain't The Place It Used To Be

    by Barry Jones ...
    MOSCOW 1991 to 1996. Following the collapse of Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, Norman ‘Nobby’ Jackson, Moscow-based failed business consultant and amateur Classicist turned private detective, again joins forces with his old sparring partner Colonel Lev Alexandrovitch Shcheglov, head of Moscow’s CID (see ‘Nobby’s’ previous adventures in ‘Moscow Ain’t Such A Bad Place’), to disentangle a Byzantine plot ... Read more

    $3.49 USD

  • Moscow Ain't Such A Bad Place

    by Barry Jones ...
    MOSCOW 1987: With Gorbachev’s Soviet Union in a state of flux and uncertainty, Londoner Norman ‘Nobby’ Robert Jackson — amateur Classicist, fluent Russian-speaker, business consultant and blackmarketeer living comfortably in Moscow with two mistresses — is approached by a fellow British businessman to locate the ‘Apsheron icon’. All is not what it seems, however. Next day ‘Nobby’ discovers the man ... Read more

    $3.69 USD

  • A Thinking Reed

    by Barry Jones ...
    From quiz kid to Australian Minister for Science, from frustrated school teacher to National President of the ALP, from the suburbs of Melbourne to UNESCO in Paris, Barry Jones has had a prodigious public life.Barry Jones first came to public prominence as Pick-a-Box quiz champion, and from then on he has embraced a myriad of passions and causes. A Thinking Reed spans his remarkable career, from a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    What Is to Be Done

    Political Engagement and Saving the Planet

    by Barry Jones ...
    Narrated by Grant Cartwright ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since—especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital age—and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions.Jones sees climate change as the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook