Product Description: The study of British politics has been reinvigorated in recent years as a generation of new scholars seeks to build-upon a distinct disciplinary heritage while also exploring new empirical territory, and finds much support and encouragement from previous generations in forging new grounds in relation to theory and methods...read more

Product Description: An authoritative evaluation of the long-term legacy of New Labour.The first book-length retrospective assessment of New Labour in government which ranges across academic commentary and political debateFeatures brand-new essays from political figures associated with the Labour party, senior commentators and leading academics, all reflecting upon key policy areas and themes in relation to the New Labour administrationsIncludes a Foreword from Baron Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour Party; an edited conversation regarding the prospects for social democracy between Baroness Shirley Williams, leading Lib Dem politician, and Tony Wright (former Labour MP); and fresh evaluations of the Labour government’s record and failings from the Shadow Minister John Denham MPRaises highly topical and important questions about the purpose and future of the Labour Party, and is designed to stimulate debate about the political challenges facing the centre-left in Britai...read more

Product Description: Political Ideologies provides an extensive collection of extracts from the texts of major intellectuals, politicians, and writers who represent some of the most important ideological traditions in modern politics. The first volume to provide such an extensive range of texts and to cover both established and newer political ideologies, it illustrates the complex evolution of ideological traditions in various national settings and highlights how these traditions developed...read more

Product Description: This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly if we also wish to raise ethical questions about the changing political and institutional practices of transnational governance...read more

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive and critical assessment of the ways in which Anglo-American political theorists have responded to the emergence of a politics of identity in democratic society. It examines the merits and weaknesses of the ideas associated with the major schools and thinkers in contemporary philosophical liberalism...read more

Product Description: Protagonists in the heated debate about British decline here set out their current views and respond to critics. The second half of the book builds on these chapters by systematically examining key themes and issues. Contributors include: Corelli Barnett, Former Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge, and Fellow of Churchill College (1977-1995); Sir Samuel Brittan, Former Principal Economics Commentator, Financial Times (1966) and Assistant Editor (1978); Jonathan Clark, Former Fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge (1977-) and of All Souls College, Oxford (from 1986); Robert Eccleshall, Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Belfast; Marie-Therese Fay, Research officer with the Cost of the Troubles Study; Andrew Gamble, Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, Open University; Will Hutton, Editor, The Observer; David Marquand Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of the nation-states. Planning Sustainability argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics.

Product Description: Michael Kenny is a sculptor and a painter, a prolific draughtsman and a print-maker. His early sculptures are dramatic, dealing with the isolation and loneliness of the individual. In more recent years, he has worked mainly in stone in a quest for a sculpture that is simple in form and rich in meaning...read more

Product Description: Michael Kenny is a sculptor and a painter, a prolific draughtsman and a print-maker. His early sculptures are dramatic, dealing with the isolation and loneliness of the individual. In more recent years, he has worked mainly in stone in a quest for a sculpture that is simple in form and rich in meaning...read more

Product Description: In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting periods in the intellectual history of the left in Britain...read more

Product Description: This is a guide to the vast amount of literature on the history of political thought which has appeared in English since 1945. The editors provide an annotation of the content of many entries and, where appropriate, indicate their significance, controversial nature and readability...read more