Maya Tudor 
Promise of Power [PDF ebook] 
The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan

A fascinating comparative study of how the agricultural experience of the Soviet Bloc has shaped and sometimes hindered development in the rest of the communist world, this book examines the agrarian …

Nowadays, rights are frequently ascribed to groups distinguished by their nationality, culture, religion or language. Rights are also commonly ascribed to institutionalised groups, such as states, bu …

Humankind has always sought out innovative and new ways of waging war, establishing new forms of warfare. Set against a background of global strategic instability this process of innovation has, over …

The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with major …

 »Dalton has succeeded in expressing general economic concepts in simple language » The Economist. The 1971 edition of this famous textbook includes recent material to the general survey on the theor …

This title was first published in 2001: Under the name of the ‘polder model’, the Dutch model of democracy has received favourable attention from journalists, administrators and political leaders. Th …

This book gives a complex description and discussion of today’s populist attacks against the European Union (EU) following the financial crisis of 2008, which opened the floodgates of dissatisfaction …

Is a unique, cross-disciplinary assessment of fairness and equity issues in the context of global climate change – a crucial dimension in current international negotiations – written by a collection …

Books on gaullism – or, more precisely, books on General de Gaulle – are not uncommon. Originally published in English in 1971, this claimed to be the first book of this sort on gaullism as a politic …

 » The countryside ought to be for everyone, and this beautiful, thoughtful companion can help us all start to forge paths into the forgotten corners of our green, pleasant and often inaccessible lan …