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• Affluenza
  There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James travelled around the world to t...
• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• The Regulatory Craft
  The Regulatory Craft tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our timethe reform of regulatory and enforcement practice. Malcolm K. Sparrow shows how the vogue prescriptions for reform (centered on concepts of customer service and process improvement) fail to take account of the dis...
• Godless
  If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law. Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in t...
• Innovation and Independence
  The NZ Reserve Bank is now internationally renowned for its strong mandate to eliminate inflation, having been the first reserve or central bank in the world to adopt the 'inflation targeting' approach to monetary policy. The Bank also, of course, maintains the integrity of the currency preserves t...
• Reforming Australia
  Participants in the debate, at the conference and in The Australian's pages, included Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane, Treasurer Peter Costello, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, Prime Minister John Howard, Opposition Leader Mark Latham, ACTU Secretary Greg Combet, Sex Discrimination Commissioner ...
• Undue Influence
  A critical look at over 80 years of conflict, collusion, and corruption between financiers and politicians Undue Influence paints a vivid portrait of the dealings between the few, in this case members of Congress, the banking community, and the Fed, and sheds light on how radical new deregulatory m...
• America Beyond Capitalism
  Be prepared for a mind-opening experience. - The Christian Century. Highly readable excellent for students...A tonic and eye-opener for anyone who wants a politics that works. - Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. America Beyond Capitalism com...
• China
  What China's transformation means for business, markets and the world order "Here is a book on China that places corporations center stage. Story paints the broad canvas of China's transformation in all its dimensions, while providing sound advice to senior management. Here is corporate strategy on...
• The Economics of War
  With the costs of war dominating our economic news and discussions, Paul Poast's new text is a needed, relevant and thought-provoking new offering. Written in an extremely accessible manner, the book is an interesting addition to a course at any level. The book's low price makes it a perfect comple...
• Citizen Participation and Resource Allocation
  Not all citizens seek to extract a free lunch from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to gather the insights of an representative and informed citizenry in sophisticated and reliable form. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation explor...
• Latin America Transformed
  Praise for the first edition: 'Accomplishes its task to provide readers with a broad multi-disciplinary view on globalization's many impacts on Latin America ...the organization of the collection is logical and thoughtful, and the structural perspectives offered are convincing and powerful. I recom...
• Privacy Lost
  While other books in the field focus on specific aspects of privacy or how to avoid invasions, David H. Holtzman - a master technologist, internet pioneer, security analyst, and former military codebreaker - presents a comprehensive insider's expose of the world of invasive technology, who's using ...
• Deliver Us from Evil
  We have all seen press and television pictures of winding lines of refugees in Africa or on mountain passes in Europe and felt that 'something must be done'. In this urgent new book William Shawcross reveals what lies behind decisions by the 'international community' to intervene in a situation on ...
• Middle East
  The Middle East beckons you. With 8 key languages in this first ever phrasebook to the region, let no barriers - language or culture - get in your way. Find your way to the qahwa (cofee house) for a sheesha (water pipe), and have a chat with some of the world's most hospitable people. Immerse yours...
• Bureaucracy and Race
  Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native ...
• 895 Days That Changed the World
  An in-depth exploration of world-changing events and the man who controlled them. In this comprehensive examination of Gerald Ford's Presidency, Graeme Mount suggests that the 38th President of the USA handled events that have significantly changed the world. In the 895 days of Ford's term in offic...
• City Making
  American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. City residents traveling through these neighborhoods move from feeling at home to feeling like tourists to feeling so out of place they fear for their security. As Ger...
• Global Corruption Report 2007 2007
  Judicial corruption blocks access to justice, hampers economic development, erodes human rights and undermines trust in the institutions of justice. This important book brings together scholars, judges and civil society activists from around the world to examine how, why and where corruption mars j...
• Arming America
  Michael A. Bellesiles's Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything we've previously been taught about America's history with guns. Painstakingly examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of America's gun-toting revolutionary citizens. Beginning with...
• What Happened
  With unprecedented candour, one of George W Bush's closest aides takes readers behind the scenes of the Bush presidency, and what exactly happened to take it off course.Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained s...
• America Alone
  This book explores how George W. Bush's election, and the fear and confusion of September 11th combined to allow a small group of radical intellectuals to seize the reins of US national security policy. It shows how, at this 'inflection point' in US history an inexperienced president was persuaded ...
• Armed Madhouse
  'Razor sharp research ...shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots' - Metro, Books of the Year. 'Bill Hicks with a press pass' - The List. Award-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mor...
• The Fall of the House of Bush
  The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States -- the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq. How did this happen? Bush's fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago, and until now this story has never been fully told. From...
• It's Getting Ugly Out There
  'Very little of my backstory qualifies as Hallmark Card material, but it may help you to make sense of the way I see and interpret what's going on around me' - Jack Cafferty. For the millions who watch the "Cafferty File" on CNN's "The Situation Room", Jack Cafferty stands for common sense - the mu...
• Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy
  The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracycivilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers...
• Bush's Brain
  The New York Times Bestseller Praise for Bushs Brain Love him or hate him, Karl Rove is one of the most brilliant and successful political consultants of all time. In this riveting account, Wayne Slater and Jim Moore tell how he got there. Paul Begala, CNNs Crossfire If you want to understand the P...
• Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics
  Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between know...
• Contemporary Politics in the Middle East
  The second edition of this dynamic textbook has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East for those coming to the subject for the first time. Purposefully employing a clear thematic structure and including a wide range of case...
• Democracy After Pinochet
  This book explores how democracy has developed in Chile since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. It brings together an examination of international influences on the country's political development with empirically based analyses of Chilean political institutions and change. Chapters one...
• Shinto and the State, 1868-1988
  Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of government sponsorship of a religion as in Ja...
• New Moon Rising
  This book looks at the inside deliberations that led to President George W Bush's space exploration initiative. The author team has been granted unprecedented access to senior policy makers as the plan was assembled during 2003 and 2004. Sietzen and Cowing will give exclusive details on the meeting...
• Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control
  Simon Chapman is one of the world's leading advocates for tobacco control, having won the coveted Luther Terry and WHO medals. His experience straddles 30 years of activism, highly original research and analysis, having run advocacy training on every continent and editing the British Medical Journa...
• Modern Transport Geography
  This book should be in the library of every transportation researcher. Ronald Sheck Intermodal and guideway research program director, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of Florida There is no escape from transport. By sea, air, road or rail, we rely on transport to connect indivi...
• In the Shadow of Just Wars
  In this book, international experts and members of the MSF analyse the way these issues have crystallized over the five years spanning the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. The authors make the case for a renewed commitment to an old idea: a humanitarianism that defies the poli...
• Freedom from Oil
  'When David Sandalow writes about energy and the environment, we should all pay close attention' - Al Gore. This title offers bipartisan solutions for a crisis that every US President has faced since the 1970s. "I plan to deliver my first address from the Oval Office two weeks from today. The topic...
• Getting Away with Murder
  The reality is that women leave all the time. Often they give up their homes, friends, family, and jobs, all in an attempt to be safe and far from their abusers. And most of the time, leaving doesn't protect them or make them safe. There are millions of women from many different social, racial, ...
• A Public Life
  Sir Zelman was Vice-Chancellor of two universities, including the University of Queensland during times of turbulent student protest, and was appointed Governor-General of Australia in 1977.An outstanding scholar and constitutional lawyer, Sir Zelman Cowen was professor and Dean of Melbourne Univer...
• The Howard Government
  An analysis in which the author dissects the current and recent attempts to 'repackage' the Australian nation. Contemporary Australia has been the subject of attempts by politicians, intellectuals and ideologues to create recipes for the transformation and redemption of the nation....
• The Treasury in Public Policymaking
  The Treasury is at the centre of management in British central government. It is essential to the economy of the UK and it is still, in many respects, the central department in Whitehall. Richard A. Chapman both clarifies and consolidates existing knowledge about the development of the Treasury's r...
• Giving Kids the Business
  The commercialization of public education is upon us. With much fanfare and plenty of controversy, plans to cash in on our public schools are popping up all over the country. Educator and award-winning commentator Alex Molnar has written the first book to both document the commercial invasion of pu...
• The White Man's Burden
  We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this aid? Why after 50 years and $2.3 trillion are th...
• Against the Grain
  "FREEZE IS THE COLDEST NEW AUTHOR ON THE COME-UP." -Nikki Turner Love him or hate him, Arkadian "Kay" Frost has made his mark on the streets of Baltimore as the leader of a close-knit group of friends: Mike, the ladies' man; Tank, the funny guy with a short fuse; Apache, the wild one with a...
• State- Society Relations in Nigeria
  State - Society Relations in Nigeria explores the problematics of democratic consolidation, conflicts and reforms in Nigeria's contemporary political history. It analyses the, history, structures and dynamics of low intensity conflicts, the neo-liberal economic and political reforms, the war agains...
• Guatemala After the Peace Accords
  One of the longest and seemingly most intractable civil wars in Latin America was brought to an end by the signing of the Peace Accords between the Guatemalan government and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) in December 1996. The essays in this volume evaluate progress made in ...
• Rogue Regime
  What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two millio...
• Daydream Believers
  America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enable...
• Freedom Next Time
  John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include "Heroes and Hidden Voices", have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark times'. In "Freedom Next Time", he looks at fiv...
• Linguistic Culture and Language Policy
  The language policies and rules that nations draw up dictate which form of language will be taught in schools and used as the official tongue of the nation. The focus of this book is to look at language policy in three very different nations and to examine how their policies are grounded in each of...
• Politics, Taxation and the Rule of Law
  The essays in this book treat the relationships among politics, taxation, and the rule of law. A central tenet of democratic ideology is that taxation is something that we choose to do to ourselves, rather than being something that is imposed on us by some ruler. The basic ideology of the American ...
• Serious and Unstable Condition
  The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term care, and many frequently used medical procedures have never been fully evaluated. The goals of con...
• The Prince's New Clothes
  Computer-assisted Reporting is revolutionising Australian journalism. Unfortunately, few working journalists are equipped to use these new techniques. However, some tertiary journalism students are already using CAR to enhance traditional reporting m...
• US Government and Politics
  Focusing on the latest developments, this book explores whether the US political system lives up to its promise to provide freedom and equality of opportunity for all. Starting with the Constitutional Convention, which drew up the framework of the political system, the book examines mechanisms desi...
• Getting Rich First
  The peasant revolutionary turned lifestyle guru, the former Shaolin monk working on a Shanghai building site, the once-conservative father running a gay hotline - and the teenagers who just want to dress up as their favourite Japanese cartoon characters. Welcome to the new China, a nation in motion...
• Global Europe, Social Europe
  This book makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over the future of Europe in the wake of the demise of the Constitution. Since 1989 much about the European Union has changed, including the very definition of 'Europe' itself. The EU has enlarged to 25 countries and the divisio...
• Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
  The detention system established by the Bush Administration at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba is like no other in our nation's history. Joseph Margulies traces the development of this detention policy from its ill-conceived creation in 2002 as "the ideal interrogation chamber" to its pre...
• The Globalization and Development Reader
  The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the success of From Modernization to Globalization, published by the editors in 2000 and used around the world. It provides an up-to-date primer and key reference for students, scholars, and developm...
• Iraq
  The removal of the regime of Saddam Hussein and the reconstruction of the Iraqi state were critical components of US foreign policy towards the Middle East in the aftermath of 9/11. It was hoped that Iraq, free from the oppression of Saddam's tyranny, would be transformed into a beacon of democracy...
• Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa
  America's war on terrorism has thrown political Islam in Africa into the international spotlight. This book examines the social and political manifestations of Islamism in North-East Africa, including the Nile Valley and the Horn. Militant Islamists were a powerful force in the region in the 1990's...
• Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads
  The future of foreign policy in Japan is highly uncertain. The post-World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation is frustrated by the lack of diplomatic transparency and resentful of prolonged economic ...
• The Life and Soul of the Party
  Out of office and all at sea, the federal ALP has spent the past five years facing up to the causes of its electoral failure and the lessons for the future. But despite the soul-searching, it's not clear that Labor has come up with a convincing case for its return to government. - Journalist Brett ...
• Misstating the State of the Union
  Misstating the State of the Union reveals a simple truth that the media too often obscures: By every objective measure, the Clinton presidency was far better for America than the Bush presidency. Yet an army of conservative pundits have conspired to lie to the public about both the Clinton and Bush...
• New World of Welfare
  Congress must reauthorize the sweeping 1996 welfare reform legislation by October 1, 2002. A number of issues that were prominent in the 1995-96 battle over welfare reform are likely to resurface in the debate over reauthorization. Among those issues are the five-year time limit, provisions to redu...
• The New Turkey
  Updated since the decision to begin Turkey's admission to the European Union. Turkey is a country in a state of flux, swept along by an extraordinary process of change. In the last few years, a series of far-reaching political and economic reforms has swept away much of the old order which ruled th...
• Over to You, Mr Brown
  Anthony Gidden's The Third Way had a far-reaching impact upon the evolution of New Labour in the UK, and upon left of centre policies in many other countries too. Today, nearly a decade later, Labour stands again at a decisive point in its history. A change of leadership can help reinvigorate the p...
• Political Leadership in New Zealand
  A comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the role and influence of political leadership in New Zealand, Political Leadership in New Zealand discusses this topical issue from a variety of valuable perspectives. More than simple studies of various leaders, chapters cover leadership and national identi...
• Politics and Society in the Developing World
  In a world seemingly surfing a wave of unprecedented affluence, it is sobering to be reminded that only thirty out of nearly two hundred countries can really be classified as advanced industrialized countries. Eighty per cent of the world's population lives in the developing world. This popular, co...
• Progressive Foreign Policy
  In May 1997, the then UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, famously said that foreign policy should have 'an ethical dimension', and that the Labour Government would 'put human rights at the heart of foreign policy'. Although not described in these terms, these assertions were an attempt to articulate...
• Federal, State and Local Government
  There are three levels of government in Australia. The federal government governs the nation of Australia, the state and territory governments govern the states and territories, and the local government governs the local areas. Find out about the responsibil- ities of each level, and how they fit t...
• Yes, Premier
  This look at Labor leadership focuses on the big names of state and territory Labor politics: Carr, Beattie, Bracks, Rann, Gallop, Martin, Stanhope and Bacon/Lennon. Includes a chapter on each state or territory, and in each case focuses on the leader who has led their party to power....
• Australia's Government
  This comprehensive resource focuses on Australia's history, culture, environment and people. Each book in the series features maps, illustrations, photographs, fact files, timelines and resource lists for further information. Ages 9-12....
• Foundations of Australian Politics
  Provides an overview of the substantive features of the Australian political system so that students can better understand the impact of political processes on their field of study....
• Coming to the Party
  Mark Latham's passionate attack in The Latham Diaries on many aspects of the Australian Labor Party, especially what he called its 'poisonous and opportunistic culture', generated fierce debate, both outside and inside the Party. Nevertheless, Labor holds power in eight of Australia's nine governme...
• Howard's Agenda
  The Howard government's agenda is of vital interest to all Australians on the eve of the GST. Contributions to this book are from leading political scientists and commentators. Also included are contours and implications of the 1998 election campaign. Issues canvassed include: the campaign perspect...
• A Win and a Prayer
  A different kind of post-election book, focusing not on the well-publicised issues and events in the campaign, but on the revealing incidents and the issues that don't get the attention they deserve. A unique group of journalists, academics and novelists will report on six key events in the electio...
• Australia's Prime Ministers
  It tells of long-time survivors Bob Menzies, Billy Hughes, Joe Lyons, Malcolm Fraser, and Bob Hawke of three timers Alfred Deakin and Andrew Fisher of short-timers Earle Page, Frank Forde, and John McEwen. It tells of the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, and of the man who did do much to bring about tha...
• The Engine Room of Government: the Queensland Premier's Department 1859-2001
  For 140 years the Premier's Department and its predecessors have been at the heart of the government of Queensland. Its activities may often have been invisible, its influence unrecognisable and its officials anonymous, but the department has nevertheless had a substantial impact on the state. A li...
• The Global Class War
  Acclaim for The Global Class War: You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ord...
• Metrogreen
  In metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city residents have taken unprecedented measures to protect their open land, and a growing movement seeks not only to preserve these lands but to link them i...
• Takeover
  In 1789, the Founders devised a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of presidents. But in the 1970s and 80s, a faction of Republicans, outraged by the weakening of the presidency after Watergate and Vietnam, abandoned the traditional conservative suspicion of concen...
• The Terror Presidency Law and Judgement
  A central player's account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America. Jack Goldsmith's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush what he could and could not do...legally. Goldsmith took the job in October 2003 and began to review th...
• State of Denial: Pt. 3
  Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year.'' This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated optimist...
• Addicted to War
  Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits...
• Bush at War
  An account based on interviews with top officials surveys the first eighteen months of the Bush administration to consider how the president and his advisors are responding to wartime circumstances and a faltering economy....
• The United States and the Great Powers
  The idea that world politics can be understood in terms of a US dominated unipolarity became generally accepted during the 1990s. Following the September 11 attacks, however, US foreign policy took an imperial turn and many began to question the form, style and substance of US leadership at the sta...
• America Unbound
  A splendidly illuminating book. - The New York Times. Like it or not, George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions once imposed on its freedom of act...
• Fear's Empire
  This hard-hitting but pragmatic critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy exposes the folly of its agenda of preventive war, its support of dictatorship and its imposition of democracy on vanquished enemies. The fear of terrorism instilled in Americans after September 11, [Benjamin Barbe...
• The Presidency in a Separated System
  Popular interpretations of American government tend to center on the presidency. Successes and failures of government are often attributed to presidents themselves. But, though the White House stands as a powerful symbol of government, the United States has a separated system intentionally designed...
• The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: 1929-1962 v. 2
  For the most part, the senators of this period are now little-known, but at the time they asserted a marked individuality, as the caricatures on the endpapers imply. At this period of history, party discipline did not suppress individual character. As the Clerk of the Senate, Harry Evans, writes in...
• The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics 2002
  Who was the first African-American senator? Who was the first woman to cast a vote in the New World? Have any gays or lesbians held state-wide office? Was 2000 a good year for women and minority office seekers? The answers to these questions are here in The Almanac of Women and Minorities in Americ...
• Memo to the President Elect
  The next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America's core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven years. In Memo to the President Elect, former secretary of state and bestselling author Madeleine Albrigh...
• Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006
  The first comprehensive study of the development of the central institution of government over the first century of its life. Based on the author's detailed archival research and 30 years experience writing about central government in Australia, it provides an understanding of both the history and ...
• Presidential Power
  Recent American presidents have exploited the power of the presidency more fully than their predecessors - and with greater consequences than the framers of the Constitution anticipated. This book, in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger's great work "The Imperial Presidency" (1973), explores how Am...
• Speaking for Australia
  Parliament lies at the heart of Australian life, from irrigation c channels to immigration quotas, from wars to women's rights, the concerns of the nation are reflected in the speeches of it's representitives. This book is a fascinating record of a c...
• The Christian Right in American Politics
  From the first rumblings of the Moral Majority over twenty years ago, the Christian Right has been marshalling its forces and maneuvering its troops in an effort to re-shape the landscape of American politics. It has fascinated social scientists and journalists as the first right-wing social moveme...
• The Great Father
  This is Francis Paul Prucha's magnum opus. It is a great work...This study will ...[be] a standard by which other studies of American Indian affairs will be judged. American Indian history needed this book, has long awaited it, and rejoices at its publication.-American Indian Culture and Research J...
• Happy Days and Wonder Years
  In the 21st century, why do we keep talking about the fifties and sixties? The stark contrast between these decades, their concurrence with the childhood and youth of the baby boomers, and the emergence of television and rock and roll help to explain their symbolic power. While the fifties are depi...
• Full Spectrum Disorder
  Stan Goff combines a first-person account of military manoeuvres with a radical interpretation of American foreign policy. Drawing on his Delta Force and Army Ranger experiences. He depicts the new American Empire as over-reliant on technology, ignorant of the lessons of history and backward in the...
• Chasing the Flame
  Sergio Vieira de Mello - a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder - was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post - World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the b...
• Beyond the New Paternalism
  The century of labouring man has come to an end, and yet governments continue to link social entitlements to the performance of labour. This book argues that the era of market regulation has ended in an era of fiscal regulation: new social and economic insecurities have spread around the world, boo...