Changes in Statehood
This study of international relations is often cut off from the study of domestic affairs, but this insulation of the international from the domestic is wrong. International forces profoundly influence the core structures of sovereign statehood, i...
Challenging the Aid Paradigm
Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western,¿especially Chinese,¿aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.
Interactive Political Leadership
Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the...
The Materiality of Learning
The field of educational research lacks a methodology for the study of learning that does not begin with humans, their aims, and their interests. The Materiality of Learning seeks to overcome this human-centered mentality by developing a novel spa...
A Brief History of the Paradox
Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresist...
Sustainable Network
This thought-provoking book demonstrates how we can tackle challenges, ranging from energy conservation to economic and social innovation, using the global network - not just the Web and the Internet, but also the private domains of thousands of c...
Challenging the Aid Paradigm
Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western,¿especially Chinese,¿aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.
Business Development
This textbook answers the basic questions:¿"What is¿business development?"¿ "What does the business developer do?" and "What characterises good, structured, effective business development?"¿ Distinguishing business de...
Making of Urban Japan
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed careful...
Seeing Dark Things
If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses ...
Improvising Teacher
The Improvising Teacher offers a radical reconceptualization of improvisation as a fundamental element of teacher expertise. Drawing on theories of improvisation and expertise alongside empirical research, the book argues that teacher expertise is...
History of Energy
In this seminal book, Bent Sørensen views human society as driven by the quest for, and control of, energy. From allowing our prehistoric ancestors to survive harsh northern European winters to more recent global energy security and climate concer...
Nothing
An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an em...
Decision-Making in the White House
Faced with divided advisers, limited options, contradictory evidence, and the profound global consequences of their choices, how do presidents reach a decision in a time of crisis? As a speechwriter and close adviser to John F. Kennedy, Ted Sorens...
Vagueness and Contradiction
Did Buddha become a fat man in one second? Is there a tallest short giraffe? Epistemicists answer 'Yes!' They believe that any predicate that divides things divides them sharply. They solve the ancient sorites paradox by picturing vagueness as a k...
Lie
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Crush
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Forever of Ella and Micha
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Ella and Micha have been through tragedy, heartbreak, and love. When they are with each other, anything seems possible. But now they are thousands of miles apart . . . Ella continues going to school...
Sorensen's Guide to Powerboats, 2/E
The first book ever to revealwhat boat builders pay thousands ofdollars to learn: the secrets of ownersatisfaction What makes a boat owner happy? Eric Sorensenand J. D. Power & Associates answer that questionin detail in this revised ed...
Probability of Violet and Luke
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Destined to be together? Or has fate conspired to tear them apart . . . Luke Price and Violet Hayes have been through a lot together, but ever since they discovered a cruel connection from the past,...
Certainty of Violet and Luke
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Is loving someone enough to guarantee a Happy Ever After? Violet Hayes's life is a mess. Haunted by the past, she constantly feels on the verge of losing it. When some unexpected news comes her way,...
Secret of Ella and Micha
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR The girl he thinks he loves needs to disappear. I don't want tonight to be irreversible, so I pull away, breathing him in one last time. Ella and Micha have been best friends since childhood, until ...
Ever After of Ella and Micha
From number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Ella and Micha and The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden comes a story of change, hope, and unbreakable vows. The day Ella has waited for is just around the corner. It's the day she...
Breaking Nova
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Nova Reed used to have dreams of becoming a famous drummer, of marrying her true love. But all of that was taken away in an instant. Now she's getting by as best she can, though sometimes that means...
Saving Quinton
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Nova Reed can't forget him -- Quinton Carter, the boy with the honey-brown eyes who made her realise she deserved more than an empty life. His pain was so similar to her own. But Nova has been comin...
Seeing Dark Things
If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses ...
Ruin Me
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