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1. A Dictionary of

Continental Philosophy

2. Where Good Ideas Come

From

3. The 3rd Alternative 4. Awaken the Giant Within

5. An Introduction to Islamic

Philosophy

6. Islamic Theology 7. Diversity and Pluralism in

Islam

8. Islamic Thought in the

Twentieth Century

9. The Concise

Encyclopaedia of Islam

10. The Heirs of the Prophet

Muhammad

11. We are a Muslim, Please 12. Asian Islam in the 21st

Century

13. Innovation in Islam 14. Apocalypse in Islam 15. The Ismailis 16. Manufacturing Consent

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17. Rethinking Islam in the

Contemporary World

18. Armed Militias of South

Asia

19. 13 December 20. Jews and Power

21. The Divided Self 22. Wars, Guns and Votes 23. Understanding Power 24. Political Communication

25. Cases in Comparative

Politics

26. Essentials of

Comparative Politics

27. How to Win a Cosmic

War

28. Awakening Islam

29. Political Islam Observed 30. Nationalism 31. What We Say Goes 32. The Pakistan-US

Conundrum

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33. New World Disorder 34. Race of a Lifetime 35. From Oslo to Iraq and the

Road Map

36. Deterring Democracy

37. Reset Middle East 38. The Age of Deception 39. Imperial Ambitions 40. International Politics

41. Interventions 42. A World of Trouble 43. The Wealth of Nations 44. Hoodwinked

45. Boomerang 46. Islamic Finance in the

Global Economy

47. I Can Make You Rich 48. Islam and the Myth of

Confrontation

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49. Confessions of an

Economic Hit Man

50. 100 Years of Permanent

Revolution

51. The Enlargement of the

European Union

52. Googled

53. In the Shadow of Shari'ah 54. The Atomic Bazaar 55. The Black Banners 56. The Secret History of Al-

Qa’ida

57. Understanding Al Qaeda 58. One click 59. Understanding Global

Trade

60. The Shadow World

61. An Introduction to

Language and Linguistics

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1

Title: A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy

Author/Editor: Protevi, John ed.

Imprint: Yale University Press, 2006

Subject: Dictionary-Philosophy

Location: R100.03 P946 - [available at main campus]

With over 450 definitions and articles by an international team of specialists, this comprehensive dictionary covers the thinkers, topics, and technical terms associated with the many intersecting fields known as continental philosophy. Special care has been taken to explain complex ideas, methods, and figures. Entries strive for clarity and concision, offering helpful definitions and sober, reliable accounts of key concepts. Professionals, students, and general readers alike will find the dictionary an invaluable reference tool and a treasured addition to the library shelf.

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Title: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Seven Patterns of Innovation

Author/Editor: Johnson, Steven

Imprint: Penguin Books, 2011

Subject: Creative thinking

Location: 153.35 J637 - [available at main campus]

Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? In "Where Good Ideas Come From", Steven Johnson, one of our most innovative popular thinkers, explores the secrets of inspiration. He identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of great ideas, from the cultivation of hunches to the importance of connectivity and how best to make use of new technologies. Most exhilarating is his conclusion: with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. By recognizing where and how patterns of creativity occur - whether within a school, a software platform or a social movement - he shows how we can make more of our ideas good ones.

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Title: The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems

Author/Editor: Covey, Stephen R.

Imprint: Simon & Schuster, 2011

Subject: Interpersonal conflict

Location: 158 C838 - [available at main campus]

This book presents a new and practical, but incredibly effective and eye-opening, way to reach resolution through using the 'Third Alternative'. The Third Alternative moves beyond your way or my way to a higher and better way - one that allows both parties to emerge from debate or even heated conflict in a far better place than either had envisioned. With the Third Alternative, nobody has to give up anything, and everyone wins. To a world of escalating strife and contention, Third Alternative thinkers like those Covey profiles in this innovative and practical book, bring creative solutions, peace and healing. Through key examples and stories from his work as a consultant, Covey will demonstrate that Third Alternative thinking is the supreme opportunity of our times. Readers will learn how to create new and better results instead of escalating conflict, as well as how to build strong relationships with diverse individuals based on an attitude of winning together.

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Title:

Awaken the Giant Within: How to take immediate control of your mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny,

Author/Editor: Robbins, Anthony

Imprint: Pocket Books, 2001

Subject: Success-Psychological aspects

Location: 158.1 R53 - [available at main campus]

Are you in charge of your life? Or are you being swept away by things that are seemingly out of your control? In AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN, Anthony Robbins, the bestselling author of UNLIMITED POWER, shows the reader how to take immediate control of their mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny. This volume shows readers how to take immediate control of their mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny. It is a fascinating presentation of cutting-edge findings and insights across a broad spectrum of issues.

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Title: An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy

Author/Editor: Campanini, Massimo

Imprint: Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Subject: Islamic philosophy

Location: 181.07 C151 - [available at main campus]

This broad, comprehensive, and yet concise introduction presents a reading of Islamic philosophy as it evolved in the Middle Ages, investigating how Islamic philosophers thought and what they thought about. The book is divided into two parts: the first part explores the epistemological foundations of Islamic philosophy and discusses the most important and penetrating interpretative paradigms proposed by the philosophers; the second part describes some of their major themes. Each chapter is organised chronologically and geographically, providing the reader with a lucid profile of the evolution of Islamic philosophical thought, with reference to specific themes within the broader framework of Islamic history. Translations from primary sources allow the philosophers to speak for themselves throughout.

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Title: Islamic Theology: Traditionalism and Rationalism

Author/Editor: Abrahamov, Binyamin


Subject: Islamic philosophy, Islam-Doctrines

Location: 181.07 A82 - [available at main campus]

The principal theological struggle in Islam has taken place between traditionalists and rationalists. Assessing materials from the third to sixteenth century, Binyamin Abrahamov focuses on the foundations of both sides of the struggle, the arguments used against each other, and the compromises reached. This is a groundbreaking study by a renowned scholar and writer.

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Title: Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims

Author/Editor: Hirji, Zulfikar ed.

Imprint: I. B. Tauris, 2010

Subject: Religious pluralism-Islam

Location: 201.5 H52 - [available at main campus]

For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. This divergence encompasses such matters as authority; ritual practice; political power; law and governance; civic life; and the form and content of individual and communal expressions of their faith. Over the centuries Muslims have regularly debated these issues amongst themselves. However, despite the remarkable diversity of the Islamic tradition, and the plurality of understandings about Islam, Muslims are regularly and erroneously portrayed as internally homogeneous and dogmatic. This important book challenges such propositions by examining the ways in which matters of common concern to Muslims have been discussed by them and examined.

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Title: Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century

Author/Editor: Taji-Farouki, Suha ed.


Subject: Islam-20th

Century

Location: 297 T11 - [available at main campus]

It explores key themes in modern Islamic thinking, including the social origins and ideological underpinnings of the late 19th- early 20th-century Islamic reformist project, nationalism in the Muslim world, Islamist attitudes towards democracy, Muslim perceptions and constructions of the West, and aspects of Muslim thinking on Christians and Jews. It examines these themes in terms of the historical, political and social conditions of the Muslim world, and its ongoing interactions with the West. An excellent source for students of modern and contemporary Islam, politics and international relations, and the modern history of Islamic societies, this book is essential reading for all professionals dealing with the Muslim world, whether in the media, in governmental and non-governmental agencies, or as politicians and diplomats.

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Title: The Concise Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed.

Author/Editor: Glasse, Cyril

Imprint: Stacey International, 2008

Subject: Islam-Dictionaries

Location: R297.03 G46 - [available at main campus]

The acclaimed Concise Encyclopaedia of Islam comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history and culture of the Islamic world in a single, scholarly volume. Now extensively updated, The Concise Encyclopaedia of Islam contains all aspects of the religion, from its rituals, sects and prayers to its political movements, social institutions and spiritual and political leaders; from the art and architecture of Islam, to its history and ethnography, from its nations and states to its languages, science and major centres of learning. This unique single-volume work, now consisting of over 1,400 entries, has been fully revised and contains a wide range of new entries covering the contemporary Islamic scene, including a substantial entry on the Taliban, plus information on many other organisations and movements which bear upon the crisis that has lately descended upon the world. Successive editions have won worldwide acclaim for their research, clarity and graceful style.

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Title: The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism

Author/Editor: Rogerson, Barnaby

Imprint: Abacus, 2010

Subject: Islam-Muhammad Prophet


The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha.

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Title: We are a Muslim, Please

Author/Editor: Malik, Zaiba

Imprint: Windmill Books, 2011

Subject: Muslim women

Location: 297.092 M29 - [available at main campus]

For Zaiba Malik, growing up in Bradford in the '70s and '80s certainly has its moments - staying up all night during Ramadan with her father; watching mad Mr Aziz searching for his goat during Eid; dancing along to Top of the Pops (so long as no-one's watching). And, of course, there's her mother - whether she's writing another ingratiating letter to the Queen or repeatedly referring to Tom Jones as 'Thumb Jone'. But Zaiba's story is also one of anxiety and seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Growing up she is constantly torn between two identities: 'British' and 'Muslim'. Alienated at school and confused at home, the racism she encounters as a child mirrors the horrors she experiences at the hands of Bangladeshi interrogators as a journalist years later. "We Are A Muslim, Please" is a stirring and enchanting memoir. We see, through Zaiba's childhood eyes, the poignancy of growing up in a world whose prejudices, contradictions and ambiguities are at once distressing and utterly captivating.

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Title: Asian Islam in the 21st Century

Author/Editor: Eposito, John L. ed.

Imprint: Oxford University Press, 2008

Subject: Islam-Asia-21st

Century

Location: 297.095 E61 - [available at main campus]

The studies collected in this book look at the changes happening both in Muslim majority countries and in societies where Muslims are a minority. Experiences of democratization - successful and unsuccessful - are examined. The rise of radical militant movements is analyzed, and placed in historical perspective and in the broader context of mainstream Islamic ideals.Among the contributors are such prominent scholars as Fred von der Mehden, Vali Nasr, Hakan Yavuz, and John Voll. This book will serve as the successor to Esposito's influential 1987 collection, Islam in Asia.

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Title: Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions

Author/Editor: Kamrava, Mehran ed.

Imprint: University of California Press, 2011

Subject: Islam-21st

Century, Islamic fundamentalism

Location: 297.2 K11 - [available at main campus]

Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? Why have the opponents of innovation found their message so resonant with ordinary Muslims? Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume offers in-depth analyses of the history, causes, consequences, and obstacles to innovation in Islam. Focusing on the ways and means through which the teachings of Islam have been produced and perpetuated over time, the contributors investigate such areas as the arts and letters, jurisprudence, personal status, hermeneutics and epistemology, and Muslims' perceptions of the self in the modern world. Innovation in Islam illuminates a debate that extends beyond semantics into everyday politics and society--and one that has ramifications around the world.

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Title: Apocalypse in Islam

Author/Editor: Filiu, Jean-Pierre

Imprint: University of California Press, 2011

Subject: Islam and politics, Jihad

Location: 297.23 F476 - [available at main campus]

This is an eye-opening exploration of a troubling phenomenon: the fast-growing belief in Muslim countries that the end of the world is at hand--and with it the "Great Battle," prophesied by both Sunni and Shi`i tradition, which many believers expect will begin in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands. Jean-Pierre Filiu uncovers the role of apocalypse in Islam over the centuries, and highlights its extraordinary resurgence in recent decades. Identifying 1979 as a decisive year in the rise of contemporary millenarian speculation, he stresses the ease with which subsequent events in the Middle East have been incorporated into the intellectual universe of apocalyptic propagandists. Filiu also shows how Christian and Jewish visions of the Final Judgment have stimulated alarmist reaction in Islamic lands, both in the past and today, and examines the widespread fear of Christian Zionist domination as an impetus to jihad.

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Title: The Ismailis: Their History and Doctrines, 2nd ed.

Author/Editor: Daftary, Farhad

Imprint: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Subject: Ismailites-Doctrines

Location: 297.82 D11 - [available at main campus]

The Isma'ilis represent the second largest Shii Muslim community after the Twelvers, and are today scattered throughout more than twenty-five countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. The second edition of this authoritative book traces the history and doctrinal development of the Isma'ilis from their origins in the formative period of Islam to the present day, a period of more than twelve centuries. All the major phases of Isma'ili history are covered, including the pre-Fatimid period, the Fatimid 'golden age', the Tayyibi-Mustali period and the history of the Nizari Isma'ilis of Persia and Syria before the Mongol invasions. The final part traces the history of the modern Isma'ilis, particularly the socio-economic progress of the Nizari communities. The new edition is a thorough revision and incorporates new material, an expanded bibliography and new illustrations. It will be invaluable reading for students of Islamic and Middle Eastern history.

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Title: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Author/Editor: Herman, Edward S.

Imprint: Vintage Books, 1994

Subject: Mass media-Political aspects


Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. They reveal how issues are framed and topics chosen, and contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections, a free press, and governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and genocide under Pol Pot. What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way.

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Title: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World

Author/Editor: Ernst, Carl W.


Subject: Islam-Essence, genius, nature


Recipient of the 2004 Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural Achievement in the Humanities An introduction to Islam, today the faith of more than a billion people, set in the context of world history and of religious studies. Carl Ernst brings together Islamic religious thought and lived experience to examine traditional spirituality and the contentious issues confronting Muslims today. His approach is balanced - both sympathetic and critical. Besides providing a guide to the fundamental aspects of Islam - its sacred sources, ethical systems and spiritual practices - the author encourages the reader to reflect on these topics.

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Title: Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists

Author/Editor: Gayer, Laurent ed.

Imprint: Hurst & Company, 2009

Subject: Political violence-South Asia

Location: 303.6 G255 - [available at main campus]

There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over the past ten years. These conflicts often involve armed paramilitary militias or insurgents of one sort or other, and it is their ideology, sociology and strategies that the contributors to this book investigate. Whether based on ideological motives - such as the Maoists and Naxalites in Nepal and India - or invested with a fundamentalist religious mission - the Hindu nationalist Bajrang Dal in India, the Sunni SSP in Pakistan, or Islamist militias in Bangladesh - all these movements use violence to exercise social control, challenge the authority of the state and impose their own particular worldview. Although they seek also to undermine the state, depriving it of the monopoly on legitimate violence that it supposedly holds, governments are equally adept at exploiting them to make them serve their own ends. For the authorities, these movements can be useful tools for their pursuit of both moral and social order.

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Title: 13 December: A Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament

Author/Editor: Roy, Arundhati


Subject: Terrorism-India


On 18 December 2001. The Indian Parliament was Attacked by five-Some Say Six-Heavily Armed men five Years Later. We Still do not Know Who was behind the attack nor the Identity of the attackers both the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court have noted that the Police Violated Legal Safeguards Fabricated Evidence and Extracted False Confessions. Yet one Man Mohammad Afzal has been Sentenced to Death by Hanging to Satisfy the Collective Conscience of Society. This Reader brings together Fifteen Essays by Lawyers Academics Journalists and writers Who Looked Closely at the Available Facts and Raise Serious Questions about the Investigations and the Trial. They show how there is Hardly a Single Piece of Evidence that Stands up to Scrutiny and Emphasize the Urgent need for an Impartial Transparent Inquiry into the Parliament Attack and its Aftermath.

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20

Title: Jews and Power

Author/Editor: Wisse, Ruth R.

Imprint: Schocken Books, 2007

Subject: Jews-Politics and government

Location: 305.89 W763 - [available at main campus]

Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews could pursue their religious mission on a purely moral plain. Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets. Although she sees hope in the State of Israel, Wisse questions the way the strategies of the Diaspora continue to drive the Jewish state, echoing Abba Eban's observation that Israel was the only nation to win a war and then sue for peace.

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Title: The Divided Self: Israel and the Jewish Psyche Today,

Author/Editor: Goldberg, David J.


Subject: Jews-Identity

Location: 305.8924 G563 - [available at main campus]

Rabbi David Goldberg, one of today’s most respected and outspoken Jewish leaders in the English-speaking world, here grapples with the dilemmas of contemporary Jewishness with characteristic candour, and sketches the emerging faultlines in the Jewish sense of identity. He offers up a completely fresh reading of Jewish history, arguing that the narrative of relentless woe and suffering, popularized by nineteenth-century writers such as George Eliot, was based on a highly selective reading of the past. Goldberg retraces the history of the Jews, and rejects the mythology of eternal victimhood. Instead, he focuses on the survival strategies that have been pursued throughout the centuries. He contrasts the pragmatic flexibility of the Jewish Diaspora with the military assertiveness of modern Israel.

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Title: Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

Author/Editor: Collier, Paul


Subject: Democracy, Power (Political Science)


The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. For them, the peaceful democracy taken for granted in the West seems an impossible pipe-dream. But solutions do exist - it is up to us to achieve them. Award-winning academic Paul Collier's vision for the future of the developing world is eye-opening, provocative and refreshingly unequivocal.

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Title: Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

Author/Editor: Mitchell, Peter R.

Imprint: Vintage Books

Subject: Political issues

Location: 320 C454 - [available at main campus]

In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions - published here for the first time - Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and social inequalities at home, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as US foreign and domestic policy, "Understanding Power" is definitive Chomsky.

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Title: Political Communication

Author/Editor: Foster, Steven


Subject: Communication in politics


This guides introduces political communication in the United Kingdom and the Unites States, handling the relationship between the media and political parties, especially the effect the media has had on the policies and internal power structures of parties and other organizations; media influence on the electorate; the conduct of democratic politics; and the constitutional significance of media politics. The volume opens with a detailed analysis of political communication today and its impact on parties, pressure groups, and government. It then places media politics within a constitutional context, addressing open government and freedom of expression, freedom of information, privacy, human rights, and the manipulatation of the media by government.

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Title: Cases in Comparative Politics, 3rd ed.

Author/Editor: O'Neil, Patrick H.

Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Subject: Comparative government-Case studies

Location: 320.3 O2 - [available at main campus]

Cases in Comparative Politics, Third Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, India, Iran, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Nigeria. This casebook applies the conceptual framework developed in the text across countries with a consistent organization that facilitates comparison and aids understanding.

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Title: Essentials of Comparative Politics, 3rd ed.

Author/Editor: O'Neil, Patrick H.

Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Subject: Comparative government


The most complete, flexible, and affordable Comparative Politics package on the market. Essentials of Comparative Politics introduces students to the concepts that political scientists use to study and compare political systems and the particulars of specific political systems. The text is available with a corresponding casebook of 14 country studies and a reader—the three components can be used individually or in any combination. The Third Edition has been revised and updated to include the most current and relevant examples; it includes a robust suite of emedia resources for students and instructors. The Comparative Politics package provides maximum value to students—the textbook/casebook/reader package is priced comparably to most standalone country studies textbooks.

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Title: How to Win a Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religions

Author/Editor: Aslan, Reza

Imprint: Arrow Books, 2010

Subject: War and terrorism, 2001, 2009


Why do they hate us? An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world? "How to Win a Cosmic War" lays out, for the first time, a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly termed Jihadism. Contrasting twenty-first-century religious extremism across Christianity, Judaism and Islam with its historical antecedents, Aslan demonstrates that while modern Jihadis may have legitimate social grievances - the suffering of the Palestinians, American support for Arab dictators, the presence of foreign troops in Muslim lands, to name a few - they have no real goals or actual agenda. So, what do the Jihadists want? Aslan's answer is: nothing. The Jihadists have no earthly agenda; they are fighting a metaphysical conflict, a theological war.

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Title: Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

Author/Editor: Lacroix, Stephane

Imprint: Harvard University Press, 2011

Subject: Religion and politics-Saudi Arabia

Location: 320.5 L11 - [available at main campus]

Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stephane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas.

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Title: Political Islam Observed

Author/Editor: Volpi, Frederic

Imprint: Hurst and Company, 2010

Subject: Islam and world politics

Location: 320.557 V888 - [available at main campus]

This book offers a framework for understanding the interaction between the academic disciplines 'observing' contemporary political Islam and the individuals and communities being 'observed' practising it. Volpi investigates how different disciplinary approaches in the social sciences explain and understand their 'Islamic' subject matter, revealing how political Islam is a phenomenon that each academic discipline analyses using its own dominant paradigms. He offers a multidisciplinary account of political Islam based on the insights provided by postorientalism, international studies, sociology of religion, democratisation studies, multiculturalism studies, security studies, and globalisation studies. His book outlines the areas of convergence and the synergies between these approaches and highlights the gaps and misunderstanding that still exist between parallel narratives on Islamism.

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Title: Nationalism: Theories and Cases

Author/Editor: Harris, Erika


Subject: Nationalism


This introduction to the ideological foundations of nationalism traces a range of theories back to their historical roots, situating them within the context of contemporary world politics. This allows students to reconsider these theories in light of current political developments, such as the increased role of non-state actors, politics beyond the state, regional integration, and transnational movements and diasporas. The inclusion of numerous case studies demonstrates the application of theories in practice.

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Title: What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World

Author/Editor: Chomsky, Noam


Subject: Foreign relations-2001, World politics-1989-

Location: 327.730 C454 - [available at both campuses]

In this new collection of conversations, "What We Say Goes" explores the most immediate and urgent concerns confronting America. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.

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Title: The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and the People: the Struggle for Control

Author/Editor: Samad, Yunas


Subject: International relations

Location: 320.95491 S41 - [available at main campus]

Yunas Samad's trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan features five main players: the people, the army, the Islamists, the politicians and the Americans. His book explains how a series of alliances borne of political and strategic expediency between the US and the military, between these parties and the Afghan mujahidin, and between various Pakistani politicians and some or all of the above - have continually undermined the state to the extent that its very existence is now in jeopardy. Much of the country is now under the de facto control of an indigenous, 'Pakistani', Taliban, whose writ is extending to Swat, Punjab and Sind along with its traditional bastion in the North West Frontier. Yet even in this parlous situation Pakistan's military and intelligence apparatus continue to be obsessed with waging a proxy war against India, whether in Kashmir or Afghanistan, at the expense of their own state's stability, while some elements now, paradoxically, see American influence in Afghanistan as a greater threat to Pakistan than the traditional foe across its eastern border.

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Title: New World Disorder: The UN after the Cold War: an Insider's view

Author/Editor: Hannay, David


Subject: Political culture-Communist culture


The end of the Cold War triggered a historic shift in world politics, and nowhere was this more keenly felt than in the United Nations. This is an insider's account of that turbulent period. Lord Hannay, who, as Britain's representative to the UN, sat in the Security Council from the time of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait until the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia (1990-1995), gives a first hand view of events as they unfolded. Just weeks after George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev's historic handshake, the UN was being asked to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, to wind up a string of Third World proxy wars, and to find a solution to the challenges of environmental degradation and climate change.

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Title: Race of a Lifetime

Author/Editor: Heilemann, John


Subject: Political campaign-United States


This is the runaway number one bestseller. This is the book that set Washington ablaze. This is the new non-fiction classic. Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. Obama's triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant, crazy, unique political campaign. "Race of a Lifetime" is the gripping inside story of those thrilling months, from the collapsing House of Clinton to the erratic John McCain and the bewildering Sarah Palin. Brimming with exclusive revelations, this compulsively readable book lays bare the characters of the candidates, warts and all, and charts the true path to the White House. It's a tour de force: the shocking, funny, and definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.

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Title: From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays

Author/Editor: Said, Edward W.


Subject: Foreign relations-Israel, Oslo


n his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, London’s Al-Hayat, and the London Review of Books, take us from the Oslo Accords through the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, and present information and perspectives too rarely visible in America. Said is unyielding in his call for truth and justice. He insists on truth about Israel's role as occupier and its treatment of the Palestinians. He pleads for new avenues of communication between progressive elements in Israel and Palestine. And he is equally forceful in his condemnation of Arab failures and the need for real leadership in the Arab world.

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Title: Deterring Democracy



Subject: United States-Foreign relations-1989-1993


A devastating analysis of America's political actions (as opposed to its rhetoric) before, during and after the Cold War. Using secret National Security Council planning documents and taking post-war Europe and Central America as paradigms, the author examines America's aggressive colonialist policy. It draws alarming connections between its repression of information inside the U S and its aggressive empire-building abroad.

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Title: Reset Middle East: Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Iran

Author/Editor: Kinzer, Stephen


Subject: International relations-Middle East

Location: 327.73056 K627 - [available at main campus]

Peace and democracy in the Middle East have been the aim of world leaders for generations, yet the US, UK or their closest allies in the region have been behind nearly every war in the Middle East in the last century. How did the West get everything so wrong? In this concise and readable book Stephen Kinzer takes the reader on a tour of modern Middle Eastern history, highlighting the errors, alliances and betrayals all acted out for what was shortsightedly seen as being in the interest of Western states. His insight and historical knowledge culminate in the startling conclusion that the US has allied with the wrong Middle Eastern states. Rather than Israel and Saudi Arabia, America's natural allies- according to Kinzer's controversial but closely reasoned analysis- should be Iran and Turkey.

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Title: The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times

Author/Editor: Elbaradei, Mohamed

Imprint: Bloomsbury, 2011

Subject: Nuclear arms-Control


When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which Dr. ElBaradei stepped - featuring Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, Muammar al-Gaddafi's Libya, and the Islamic Republic of Iran - gave ample opportunity for high-stakes and high-profile decision-making. But no one could have predicted that ElBaradei would be 'the man in the middle' of so many nuclear conflicts over so sustained a period of time. And after he and the IAEA were jointly awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, his role as middle-man only gained intensity. In "The Age of Deception", Dr. ElBaradei gives us his account from the centre of the nuclear fray. Readers will sit at the dinner table with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, listening as they bleakly predict the coming war.

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Title: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post 9/11 World


Imprint: Metropolitan Books, 2005

Subject: Imperialism, World politics-1995-2005


A collection of previously unpublished interviews presents the critical thoughts of the noted scholar, activist, and author of Hegemony and Survival on American foreign policy in the increasingly unstable global community following September 11th, sharing his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, preemptive strikes against rogue states, prospects of the second Bush administration, and the threat to international peace.

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Title: International Politics: An Introductory Guide

Author/Editor: Blair, Alasdair


Subject: International politics

Location: 327.01 B573 - [available at main campus]

This accessible introduction blends key facts and terms with strong analytical commentary. It focuses on the period following the Second World War, covering issues from the beginning of the cold war to the present day and paying particular attention to contemporary events. The world's trouble spots are covered in detail, from the end of communist domination in Eastern Europe to the post-September 11 world and the threat posed by international terrorism.

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Title: Interventions



Subject: International relations-Iraq war, 2003


At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible and urgent essays, Chomsky cogently examines the burning issues of our post-9/11 world, covering the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is an essential collection, from a vital and authoritative perspective.

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Title:

A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East-from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Author/Editor: Tyler, Patrick

Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009

Subject: Middle East-Foreign relations-United States

Location: 327.73 T971 - [available at main campus]

Tyler draws on newly opened presidential archives to dramatize the approach to the Middle East across U.S. presidencies from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. The author shows how each president has managed to undo the policies of his predecessor, often fomenting anger against America.

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Title: The Wealth of Nations

Author/Editor: Smith, Adam

Imprint: Everyman's Library, 1991

Subject: Economics


A book about economics which provides a comprehensive analysis of industrial economies. It offers an exposition of Smith's two great liberal principles of self-interest and natural liberty. This edition includes books one to four and an introduction to Smith's economic theories.

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Title:

Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded-and What We Need to Do to Remake Them

Author/Editor: Perkins, John

Imprint: Broadway Books, 2009

Subject: Economic history-21st

Century

Location: 330.9 P41 - [available at main campus]

Here, Perkins pulls back the curtain on the real cause of the current global financial meltdown. He shows how we've been hoodwinked by the CEOs who run the corporatocracy--those few corporations that control the vast amounts of capital, land, and resources around the globe--and the politicians they manipulate. These corporate fat cats, Perkins explains, have sold us all on what he calls predatory capitalism, a misguided form of geopolitics and capitalism that encourages a widespread exploitation of the many to benefit a small number of the already very wealthy. Their arrogance, gluttony, and mismanagement have brought us to this perilous edge. The solution is "not" a "return to normal."

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Title: Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour

Author/Editor: Lewis, Michael

Imprint: Allen Lane, 2011

Subject: Economic history, Global financial crisis


Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in "The Big Short", Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? "Boomerang" is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack.

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Title: Islamic Finance in the Global Economy

Author/Editor: Warde, Ibrahim


Subject: Islamic finance

Location: 332.01 W21 - [available at main campus]

Islamic finance is growing at an astonishing rate and is now a $1,200 billion industry, with operations in over 100 countries. This book explains the paradox of a system rooted in the medieval era thriving in the global economy. Coverage is exhaustively comprehensive, defining Islamic finance in its broadest sense to include banks, mutual funds, securities firms and insurance (or takaful) companies. The author places Islamic finance in the context of the global political and economic system and covers a wide variety of issues such as the underlying principles of Islamic finance, the range of Islamic financial products, and country differences. He also discusses a number of economic, political, regulatory and religious concerns and challenges. This second edition has been completely revised and updated to take into account the great changes and developments in the field in recent times.

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Title: I Can Make You Rich

Author/Editor: McKenna, Paul

Imprint: Bantam Press, 2008

Subject: Finance, Personal-Psychological aspects

Location: 332.02401 M11 - [available at main campus]

Are you ready to become rich? If you've ever wondered why it is that some people find it easy to make money while others struggle, it's not because they are more intelligent, work harder or have better luck - it's simply because they think and act differently. Do you want to make more money? Do you want to improve the quality of your life? Do you believe you can be rich? What if it was easier than you think? Over the past decade, Paul McKenna PhD has made a unique study of the mindset of people rich not only in money but also in happiness and quality of life. In this groundbreaking new book, he makes use of proven psychological techniques to help you install that same rich mind-set inside yourself.

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Title: Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East

Author/Editor: Halliday, Fred


Subject: Islamic countries-Politics and government


The collapse of communism and the rise of militant Islamic movements in the Middle East, raised the specter of a future dominated by the conflict between Islam and the West. September 11 has only branded that notion onto the world’s consciousness. In this up-to-date edition of Halliday's classic text, he sets out to reject these interpretations. Considering the sources of Islamic militancy and analyzing the confrontational rhetoric of both Islamic and anti-Muslim demagogues, he provides an alternative, critical but cautious, reassessment.

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Title: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author/Editor: Perkins, John

Imprint: Ebury Press, 2005

Subject: Islamic countries-Politics and government

Location: 332.042092 P41 - [available at main campus]

ECONOMIC HIT MEN are highly paid professionals who cheat countries round the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. 'JOHN PERKINS should know - he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince poorer countries to accept enormous development loans - and to make sure that such projects were contracted to U.S companies. Once these countries were saddled with huge debts, the American government would request their pound of flesh in favours, including access to natural resources, military co-operation and political support.

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Title: 100 Years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects

Author/Editor: Dundin, Bill ed.

Imprint: Pluto Press, 2006

Subject: Revolution and socialism-History

Location: 335.43 D91 - [available at main campus]

Leading Marxist thinkers re-evaluate Trotsky's key theories -- an ideal introduction for students.

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Title: The Enlargement of the European Union: A Guide for the Entrepreneur

Author/Editor: Lejeune, Ine

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Subject: European Union countries-Commercial policy, Europe, Eastern-Commercial policy


The Enlargement of the European Union: A Guide for the Entrepreneur is a practical reference book for business and financial investors looking at changes and opportunities arising from the expansion of Europe. It provides coverage of all the important issues for business and financial communities, setting out a framework for senior management to checklist their own situations and take advantage of a market that contains 450 million customers.

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Title: Googled: The end of the world as we know it

Author/Editor: Auletta, Ken

Imprint: Virgin Books, 2010

Subject: Google, Internet industry-United States


"Googled" is candid, authoritative and based on extensive research, including in-house at Google HQ where Ken Auletta had unprecedented access. He conducted over 150 interviews at Google with the company's founders and executives and also interviewed those in the media who are struggling to keep their heads above water. Crucially, "Googled" is not just a history or reportage: it's forward-looking. Auletta reveals how the media industry is being disrupted and redefined and shows how and why the worlds of 'new' and 'old' media often communicate as if residents of different planets. "Googled" is already being hailed as the definitive work on Google and is a crucial roadmap to how media business may be done in the future.

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Title: In the Shadow of Shari'ah: Islam, Islamic Law, and Democracy in Pakistan

Author/Editor: Nelson, Matthew J.


Subject: Islamic law-Pakistan, Inheritance and succession-Pakistan

Location: 346.54 N331 - [available at main campus]

Recent events in Pakistan, and more widely in the Islamic world, have sparked an unprecedented level of interest in the relationship between Islam and democracy. Studies of Islamic law (Shari'ah) lie at the heart of this trend, but carefully researched studies of Islamic law as it actually unfolds 'on the ground' remain extremely rare. This book promises to fill that gap, using a detailed study of Islamic laws in Pakistan to show exactly how the relationship between Islam, Islamic law and democracy is understood and, potentially, transformed in different cultural contexts.

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Title: The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor

Author/Editor: Langewiesche, William

Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

Subject: Nuclear weapons, Nuclear proliferation


In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations find ways of acquiring the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity have soared to frightening heights. Even more disturbing is the likelihood of such weapons being manufactured and deployed by guerrilla non-state terrorists. Langewiesche also recounts the recent history of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist at the forefront of nuclear development and trade in the Middle East who masterminded the theft and sale of centrifuge designs that helped to build Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and who single-handedly peddled nuclear plans to North Korea, Iran, and other potentially hostile countries.

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Title: The Black Banners: Inside the hunt for al-Qaeda

Author/Editor: Soufan, Ali H.

Imprint: Allen Lane, 2011

Subject: War on terrorism


'If you see the Black Banners coming, then go to them, even if you have to crawl' Prophet MuhammadAli Soufan was for years the FBI's lead agent in the war against Al Qaeda, as well as its most effective interrogator. On September 11th 2001, he was handed a secret file that could have prevented the attacks, and he has prevented many others by gaining important confessions from Al Qaeda terrorists - without ever laying so much as a hand on them. He is also not afraid to critique the US government's approach to combating terrorism. In The Black Banners he takes us into hideouts, planning meetings, and interrogation rooms. He explains why the pervasive use of torture is not helping in the War on Terror, and how a more enlightened approach to intelligence is not only possible, but better. This is a gripping and important book that gives us a ringside seat in Bin Laden's lair.

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Title: The Secret History of Al-Qa'ida

Author/Editor: Atwan, Abdel Bari

Imprint: Abacus, 2007

Subject: Terrorism-Religious aspects-Islam


A leading expert on al-Qa'ida, the author examines key aspects of jihad, whose reinterpretation lies at the basis of the ideology behind the proliferation of human bombs, and explains why al-Qa-ida remains the single greatest threat to American globalisation at this time.

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Title: Understanding Al Qaeda: Changing War and Global Politics

Author/Editor: Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould

Imprint: Pluto Press, 2011

Subject: Terrorism. Religious aspects, Islam


This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way. Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda's creation almost twenty years ago, and sketching its global mutation, Mohamedou explains that there is a cogent strategy to Al Qaeda's actions. He shows that the 'war on terror' is failing, only serving to recruit more terrorists to Al Qaeda's cause. He also puts forward a case for how the international community can best respond.

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Title: One click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

Author/Editor: Brandt, Richard L.

Imprint: Portfolio Penguin, 2011

Subject: Electronic commerce, Amazon.com (Firm)

Location: 381.45 B733 - [available at main campus]

Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy that customers won't think twice. It can be summed up by that button on every page: 'Buy now with one click'. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it hinges on Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique character and ruthless business sense have driven Amazon relentlessly forward. Through interviews with Amazon employees and competitors, "One Click" charts Bezos' rise from computer nerd to world-changing entrepreneur. It reveals how he makes decisions and where he will take Amazon next. Amazon is a case study in how to reinvent an entire industry. It is one that anyone in business ignores at their peril.

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Title: Understanding Global Trade

Author/Editor: Helpman, Elhanan

Imprint: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011

Subject: International trade

Location: 382 H34 - [available at main campus]

Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it contains no equations, it is almost mathematical in its elegance, precision, and power of expression. Understanding Global Trade provides a thorough explanation of what shapes the international organization of production and distribution and the resulting trade flows. It reviews the evolution of knowledge in this field from Adam Smith to today as a process of theoretical modeling, accumulation of new empirical data, and then revision of analytical frameworks in response to evidence and changing circumstances. It explains the sources of comparative advantage and how they lead countries to specialize in making products which they then sell to other countries.

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Title: The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

Author/Editor: Feinstein, Andrew

Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, 2011

Subject: Arms-Trade


Here is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Pulling back the curtain on this secretive world, Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups.

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Title: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Author/Editor: Fasold, Ralph ed.

Imprint: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Subject: Language and languages, Linguistics

Location: 401 F26 - [available at main campus]

This accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge the text offers a clear introduction to the traditional topics of structural linguistics (theories of sound, form, meaning, and language change), and in addition provides full coverage of contextual linguistics, including separate chapters on discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language. There are also up-to-date separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, child language acquisition, and second-language learning. The breadth of the textbook makes it ideal for introductory courses on language and linguistics offered by departments of English, sociology, anthropology, and communications, as well as by linguistics departments.

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