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The Metacolonial State: Pakistan, Critical Ontology, and the Biopolitical Horizons of Political Islam (Antipode Book Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

'An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implications of their thought for a radical analysis of the ontological politics of Islam and Pakistan. Whether writing about the 'Ulama and Deoband schools, blasphemy laws, the military, beards, or the...

The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students Edition 1.

Gale, 2003

ARBA : "This heavily illustrated four-volume set is a derivative student edition based upon the more comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Renaissance issued in 1999 under the direction of the same editor...Individual entries are quite readable and are provided with marginal definitions of works that may be unfamiliar to the...

Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies (Elgar Original Reference)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

Undoubtedly, the rapid transformation of a band of four Northeast Asian economies (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) since the mid-1960s has been unprecedented in economic history. Their experience has surpassed the earlier experience of Japan’s transformation into an industrial economy, and that of the former USSR. Although...

Information and the History of Philosophy (Rewriting the History of Philosophy)

Routledge, 2021

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now information’s philosophical history has been largely overlooked.

Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical...

Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome

Springer, 2009

Wilfried Martens - Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome Foreword by Angela Merkel

Wilfried Martens has devoted his entire life to politics: as student leader, youth activist, President of the Flemish Christian Democrats, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European People's Party and European statesman. In his autobiography...

Governing the Euro Area in Good Times and Bad

Oxford University Press, 2011

Can the euro area survive without a more centralized economic policy? What lessons can be drawn from Economic and Monetary Union about new modes of policy-making in the European Union? Have euro area members spoken with one voice on the international stage and what does this mean for the European Union's ambitions to be a global actor in...

Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change

FT Press, 2005

Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. Unfortunately, most managers know far more about developing strategy than about executing it -- and overcoming the difficult political and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. In this book, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence Hrebiniak offers the first...

Reinventing Liberalism: The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920-1947) (Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought)

Springer, 2020

In April 1947, a group of right-leaning intellectuals met in the Swiss Alps for a ten-day conference with the aim of establishing a permanent organization. Named “an army of fighters for freedom” by Friedrich Hayek, they would at times use “neoliberalism” as a description of the philosophy they were...

Leading in Inter-Organizational Networks: Towards a Reflexive Practice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area. Theoretically conceptualizing and empirically describing the practice of reflexive leadership in inter-organisational networks, it explores how member organisations approach reflexive...

The Welfare State and the Democratic Citizen: How Social Policies Shape Political Equality (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book examines the ways in which the welfare state impacts levels and distributions of political participation and democratic support in Western democracies. Going beyond the traditional contextual accounts of political behaviour, which primarily focus on political institutions or the socio-economic climate, this book looks...

Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization

McGraw-Hill, 2004

In the early 1980s, when Buckman Laboratories was scrambling to meet the rapidly changing needs of its customers, CEO Robert Buckman realized than an organization positioned for the future would have to be organized around knowledge—creating it, sharing it, and applying it—rather than around traditional corporate hierarchies and...

Six Sizzling Markets: How to Profit from Investing in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea, and Mexico

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Praise for Six Sizzling Markets

"Everyone knows that the globe is being changed by globalization, but what does it mean for the ordinary citizen or investor? Pran Tiku offers a clear and informative account of the opportunities that exist in six of the major new global economies. The book sizzles with...

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