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  • Getting India Back on Track

    An Action Agenda for Reform

    Edited by Ashley J. Tellis, Bibek Debroy, Reece Trevor ...
    India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.Getting India Back on Track broadly coincides with the 2014 Indian elections to spur a public debate about the program that the next government should pursue ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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    A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s

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    Series Book 1 - Memoirs of Dublin
    "Not for the faint of heart, Long's story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to one girl's unbreakable spirit."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewWhen Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her ... Read more

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  • The ASEAN Miracle

    A Catalyst for Peace

    by Kishore Mahbubani, Jeffery Sng ...
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle. In an era of growing cultural pessimism, there is a pervasive belief that different civilizations cannot function together. Yet the ten countries of ASEAN are a thriving counter-example of coexistence. Here, more than 625 million people live together in peace.In 1967, leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and ... Read more

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  • My Friend the Fanatic

    Travels with a Radical Islamist

    by Sadanand Dhume ...
    A nation once synonymous with tolerance, Indonesia, the fourth-most populated country in the world and its most populous Muslim country, now finds itself in the midst of a profound shift toward radical Islam. Sadanand Dhume, a Princeton-educated Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an interest in economic development, travels across Indonesia to find out how a society goes from ... Read more

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  • Stumbling Giant

    The Threats to China's Future

    by Timothy Beardson ...
    "A thoughtful reconsideration of China's actual place in the new world order, based on reality rather than fanciful speculation." —Kirkus ReviewsCan anything prevent China surpassing the United States and becoming the world's top superpower? While predictions that China's rise to global supremacy is a near-certainty have resulted in this belief becoming almost conventional wisdom, this book boldly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tumultuous Decade

    Empire, Society, and Diplomacy in 1930s Japan

    by Tosh Minohara, Masato Kimura ...
    Series series Japan and Global Society
    The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs. The Great Depression affected the economic and social circumstances of the world’s major powers, contributing to armed conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. This volume focuses exclusively on Japan, which witnessed a flurry of progressive activities in this period, activities which served both domestic and ... Read more

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  • Safeguarding Adults and the Law

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the ... Read more

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  • Within Our Reach

    by Lisbeth Schorr ...
    In this solidly researched book, the authors demonstrate that the knowledge and techniques exist to decrease the incidence of welfare dependency, poor single-parent families and alienated, uneducated youth. In addition to providing a detailed account of the problem, they describe twenty-four programs that have proved successful in changing the lives of seriously disadvantaged children. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella

    Deterrence After the Cold War

    by Terence Roehrig ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    For close to sixty years, the United States has maintained alliances with Japan and South Korea that have included a nuclear umbrella, guaranteeing their security as part of a strategy of extended deterrence. Yet questions about the credibility of deterrence commitments have always been an issue, especially when nuclear weapons are concerned. Would the United States truly be willing to use these ... Read more

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  • Social Development And Social Policy: International Experiences And China's Reform

    by Dongtao Qi, Lijun Yang ...
    Social policy reforms driven by profound social changes have been a popular and pressing topic worldwide in recent years in both policy and academic circles. In this book, prominent social policy scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia discuss the history of social policies, compare different social development models, and analyze the challenges facing these economies' social policy reforms. ... Read more

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  • A Localized Culture of Welfare

    Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village

    by Kwok-shing Chan ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and the early 2000s.This ethnographic study demonstrates that kinship, particularly agnatic kinship, has ... Read more

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  • Active Ageing

    Perspectives from Europe on a vaunted topic

    Edited by María Luisa Gómez Jiménez, Jonathan Parker ...
    Authors from across Europe consider the diverse theoretical and conceptual issues in understanding ageing in late modern society with an emphasis on active ageing. Integrated approaches are emphasised, without privilege one theoretical conception above others. The examples used will act as examples of positive contributions to ageing, even when physical and cognitive frailty looms large ... Read more

    $25.69 USD