Social Sciences and Education

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015The term peace process is now widely used to describe attempts to manage and resolve conflict. As the n...

This up-to-date analysis of the Supreme Court’s landmark rulings on civil rights and liberties is a discussion of the facts, legal issues, and cons...

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not ca...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described conti...

Britain has been a significant voice in global politics in the last two decades and its impact on world events far outweighs its material resources...

Featuring a variety of updates and revisions, Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, presents an accessible and original overview ...

"The Baghdad Bulletin was essential reading in the first few months after the end of the war. ... I am only sorry that I cannot read it anymore. Da...

The G8 runs what South African president Thabo Mbeki and others describe as 'global apartheid'. ... He -- and everyone else -- should read this sup...

Architects of World History presents an innovative collection of original essays by leading scholars associated with World History, exploring throu...

The text aims to uncover the roots of the United States' near perpetual involvement in war since the beginning of WWI in 1914. Using alliance polit...

As the world s only superpower, America s foreign policy inevitably has a major impact Ð be it positive or negative – on contemporary international...

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, ...

The eighth edition of the hugely successful American Civilization offers students the perfect background and introductory information on contempora...

This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that ‘su...

A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English...

This history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of historical accounts have focused on the regular arm...

Providing a different approach to the history of India than previously advocated, this textbook argues that there was constant interaction between ...

A Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the...

Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the in...

The latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas ...

A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, soc...

Will The Middle East Implode? by Mohammed Ayoob, 8126547332, 9788126547333, Wiley India

The fifth edition of this bestselling textbook offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to International relations and has been fully updat...

The fourth edition of this well-established and popular text has been fully updated to take account of developments in the field of International R...

A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Written by an international team of ...

Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the ...

First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. I...

In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jam...

The Mughals of India explores the grandest and longest lasting empire in Indian history. This innovative book examines the Mughal presence in India...

This book considers the constitutional position of the judiciary and its role in shaping the individual's relations with the state.

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing...

The arena of global politics is a fast-changing and fascinating one, encompassing as it does the accelerating processes of globalisation, the ever-...

One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books, The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style, ye...

Lively, shrewd, bursting with reforming ideas, and refreshingly informed by a vast knowledge of current diplomatic practice in Asia and Africa as w...

Working after the war, Hayek's writing was very much against the tide of mainstream Keynesian economic thought. But in the 1970s and 1980s - the er...

There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his...

About the Book: The Birth of The Modern World 1780 - 1914 : Global Connections And Comparisons This book is going to revolutionize how we think abo...

In 1993, Derrida opened a conference organized around the question 'Whither Marxism?’, and it is his plenary address that forms the basis of this b...

This book examines the Ghandian precepts of satyagraha or non-violent protest and non-violence and the evolution of these precepts in the context o...

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and ot...

Few books about world politics merit the description of `path-breaking.' Rules for World is one of them. States matter, but so do their creations, ...

India's growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. Now available in pa...

In recent years there has been a transformation in the management of the public sector across many parts of world, The rigid, bureaucratic form of ...

This major textbook offers both an introduction to and key readings in twenty core political concepts. It blends original essays that survey debate...