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Fantastic Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric LifeDONALD R. PROTHEROIn Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the paleontologist’s journey. He details the best places to look for fossils, the art of how to find them, and how to classify the major types. Prothero provides expert wisdom about typical fossils that an average person can hope to collect and how to hunt fossils responsibly and ethically. He also explores the lessons that common and rarer discoveries offer about paleontology and its history, as well as what fossils tell us about past climates and present climate change. Captivating illustrations by the paleoartist Mary Persis Williams bring to life hundreds of important specimens. 364 illustrations.

Hbk | 336pp | 9780231195782 | 2020.01 Columbia University Press | A$72 | NZ$86 229x152mm | USA

Powerful B2B Content: Using Brand Journalism to Create Compelling and Authentic StorytellingGAY FLASHMANPowerful B2B Content helps readers understand the importance of a brand narrative and explains how successful organizations can create brand journalism content that has influence and impact. Using the rigor of journalistic practices and constructing content that is developed and crafted with a journalist’s sensibility, B2B companies will ensure that stories are engaging and eye-catching, develop trust and attract the attention of the right audiences. Building on many years’ experience in award-winning newsrooms, Gay Flashman explains what makes a great story, describes what audiences want to hear and shows the most effective way to deliver it.

Pbk | 288pp | 9781789660999 | 2020.01 Kogan Page | A$52.99 | NZ$63 234x156mm | UK

The Savvy Investor’s Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls, Frauds, and ScamsH. KENT BAKER, JOHN R. NOFSINGER AND VESA PUTTONENThe Savvy Investor’s Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls, Frauds and Scams explores the common pitfalls that investors face. Highlighting important issues when investing especially in common stocks and mutual funds, they explore the psychological biases of investors that can cause you to be your own worst enemy. Finally, they look at frauds and scams, and how to protect yourself from dishonest people wanting to profit at your expense. If you feel unprepared to face the risks of investing, Baker, Nofsinger, and Puttonen provide this essential guide to arming yourself against devastation on your path to becoming a savvy investor.The Savvy Investor’s Guide Series.

Pbk | 222pp | 9781789735628 | 2020.01 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$44.99 | NZ$53.99 198x129mm | UK

Smarter Decision-Making: Avoiding Poor Decisions through Effective ListeningLOUIS J. PEPEAvoiding poor decisions in any facet of life starts by truly listening for the meaning in the messages we receive. In today’s fast paced business environment, executives, managers and supervisors alike need to master the skill of effective listening to engage in smarter decision making. Smarter Decision-Making demonstrates the power of applied listening through focus, meaning and understanding context. The second part of the book gives depth to the importance of meaning. These practical insights are invaluable to any leader intent on achieving success and growth in their career.

Pbk | 100pp | 9781475854558 | 2020.01 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers A$39.99 | NZ$48.99 | 229x152mm | USA

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BUSINESSAustralian Franchising Code of Conduct: A Critical Analysis with Current Case LawPETER BUBERISThe Franchising Code of Conduct (the Code) is a mandatory obligation for all systems operating in Australia, and takes a comprehensive approach to disclosure, relationship laws and dispute issues. Expert author and practitioner Peter Buberis takes a critical view of this regulatory framework, evaluating the threads that make up the Code that directs the franchising industry in Australia. Peter Buberis has practiced in International and National Franchising for some 30 years. He has taught in International Franchising at the University of Adelaide and is an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of New South Wales.

Hbk | 206pp | 9781839091681 | 2020.01 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$128 | NZ$153 229x152mm | UK

DEVELOPMENTGender and Water Sanitation and HygieneCAROLINE SWEETMANAt birth and death, and each day in between, individual human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Inadequate WASH provision both results from and causes continuing poverty, and serves to reinforce gender and other inequalities. Women and girls experience WASH needs differently from men, both as individuals, and as societies’ carers. This book highlights the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women’s empowerment.Working in Gender & Development Series.

Pbk | 188pp | 9781788530835 | 2019.10 Practical Action Publishing | A$47.99 | NZ$56.99 234x156mm | UK

ECONOMICS AND FINANCEAlgorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Implications for the Future of the WorkplaceGAVIN BROWN AND RICHARD WHITTLEThe convergence of Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the current world of work. This book investigates the effects of this on the worker, the organisation and the economy, by considering a future where the traditional power relationships between workers and firms no longer apply. Using the term “Bitwork” to define this future world of work, the book proposes the idea of the Bitworker who is highly flexible, holds multiple roles, and has multiple incomes. The book’s recommendations provide a useful survival guide for researchers, practitioners and policy makers.The Future of Work Series.


The Financial Services Guide to Fintech: Driving Banking Innovation Through Effective PartnershipsDEVIE MOHANWritten by an experienced fintech advisor and influencer, The Financial Services Guide to Fintech explains the fundamental concepts of this exciting space and the key segments to have emerged, including regtech, robo-advisory, blockchain and personal finance management. It looks at the successes and failures of bank-fintech collaboration, focusing on technologies and start-ups that are highly relevant to banks’ product and business areas such as cash management, compliance and tax. With international coverage of key markets in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the U.S., The Financial Services Guide to Fintech offers practical guidance and uses cases and business models for banks and financial services firms to use when working with fintech companies.

Pbk | 248pp | 9780749486372 | 2020.01 Kogan Page | A$74 | NZ$89 234x156mm | UK

ENGINEERINGTrusted Data: A New Framework for Identity and Data Sharing 2edTHOMAS HARDJONO, DAVID L. SHRIER AND ALEX PENTLANDTrusted Data describes a data architecture that places humans and their societal values at the center of the discussion. By involving people from all parts of the ecosystem of information, this new approach allows us to realize the benefits of data-driven algorithmic decision making while minimizing the risks and unintended consequences. It proposes a software architecture and legal framework for an Internet of Trusted Data that provides safe, secure access for everyone and protects against bias, unfairness, and other unintended effects. This approach addresses issues of data privacy, security, ownership, and trust by allowing insights to be extracted from data held by different people, companies, or governments without collecting, holding, or revealing the underlying data. 51 black and white illustrations.MIT Connection Science and Engineering Series.

Pbk | 400pp | 9780262043212 | 2019.10 The MIT Press | A$64 | NZ$79 203x137mm | USA

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ENVIRONMENTThe Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological RiftJOHN BELLAMY FOSTER AND BRETT CLARKIn the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism’s relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery system, leading to an irreparable rift in the metabolism between humanity and nature. In the twenty-first century, these classical insights into capitalism’s degradation of the earth have become the basis of extraordinary advances in critical theory and practice associated with contemporary ecosocialism. In The Robbery of Nature, the authors, working within this historical tradition, examine capitalism’s plundering of nature via commodity production, and how it has led to the current anthropogenic rift in the Earth System.

Pbk | 416pp | 9781583678398 | 2020.01 Monthly Review Press | A$62 | NZ$75 229x152mm | USA

Australian Wetland Cultures: Swamps and the Environmental CrisisJOHN CHARLES RYAN AND LI CHENAmong the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society through the idea of wetland cultures. The broad historical and cultural range of the book spans pre-settlement indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European colonization, and contemporary Australian engagements with wetland habitats.Environment and Society Series.John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England. Li Chen is researcher and writer for environmental conservation and community development NGOs in Perth.

Hbk | 286pp | 9781498599948 | 2020.01 Lexington Books | A$149.99 | NZ$179.99 229x152mm | USA

HIGHER EDUCATIONAcademia Next: The Futures of Higher EducationBRYAN ALEXANDERThe outlook for the future of colleges and universities is uncertain. Financial stresses, changing student populations, and rapidly developing technologies all pose significant challenges to the nation’s colleges and universities. In Academia Next, futurist and higher education expert Bryan Alexander addresses these evolving trends to better understand higher education’s next generation. An unusually multifaceted approach to American higher education that views institutions as complex organisms, Academia Next offers a fresh perspective on the emerging colleges and universities of today and tomorrow.

Hbk | 352pp | 9781421436425 | 2020.01 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$82 | NZ$99 229x152mm | USA

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSThe Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism Versus Liberal NationalismMANSOOR MOADDELMuch of the Middle East and North Africa still appear to be in a transitional period set in motion by the 2011 Arab uprisings, and the political trajectory of the region remains difficult to grasp. In The Clash of Values, Mansoor Moaddel provides groundbreaking empirical data to demonstrate how the collision between Islamic fundamentalism and liberal nationalism explains the region’s present and will determine its future.Analyzing data from over 60,000 face-to-face interviews of nationally representative samples of people in seven countries—Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey—Moaddel reveals the depth and breadth of the conflict of values. 30 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 336pp | 9780231193832 | 2020.01 Columbia University Press | A$72 | NZ$86 235x156mm | USA

LAWFreedom of Speech in Practice: Controversial Applications of Law and TheoryANTHONY GRAYThis book considers the application of free speech principles in controversial contexts discussing United States law and equivalent law in Europe, Canada and Australia. Anthony Gray examines the extent to which speech of public sector employees is and should be protected. He tackles the difficult question of hate speech and the degree to which regulation of it has been permitted, and should be permitted. The growing controversy of speech in a university setting is discussed along with the roles campuses play in fostering intellectual debate which democracies depend on. Lastly, Gray looks at free speech issues at stake in the exponential growth of online activity.Anthony Gray is professor of law at the University of Southern Queensland.


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MANAGEMENTCareers: Thinking, Strategising and PrototypingANN M. BREWERConsidering career development in the current and future work landscape, this book explores a leading-edge framework for careers, drawing on design thinking to apply career planning to a wide range of individual contexts. Using a design thinking framework, Ann M. Brewer presents compelling evidence of the need for career strategising to assist all workers in achieving their career aspirations and goals. This hands-on approach addresses the emotional and cognitive investment of career thinking and planning from an early career stage to a late career stage perspective, while the key emphasis on prototyping provides an opportunity to change the way careers are created. The Future of Work Series.Ann M. Brewer is a Professor of Behavioural Science and Dean of the University of Newcastle, Sydney.


Critical Capabilities and Competencies for Knowledge OrganizationsALEXEIS GARCIA-PEREZ, JUAN GABRIEL CEGARRA-NAVARRO, DENISE BEDFORD, MARGO THOMAS AND SUSAN WAKABAYASHIHow can knowledge management professionals position themselves for greatest success? In this practical guide, the expert authors demonstrate how professionals can map knowledge resources to support business critical capabilities, and increase the impact of knowledge management projects. They also explain how to avoid investing in resources with low value, and how to develop strategies and action plans for different types of resources. Working Methods for Knowledge Management Series.

Pbk | 272pp | 9781789737707 | 2019.11 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$84 | NZ$102 198x129mm | UK

The Culture of Women in Tech: An Unsuitable Job for a WomanMARIANN HARDEYThis book offers a critical analysis of the contemporary and global tech culture and exposes the gender bias of masculine tech ideology and stereotypes. Mariann Hardey examines the rise of entrepreneurial work and leadership, the contemporary urban setting of global tech work, and specifically women’s place in tech clusters. The book engages with attempts by women to establish and then sustain their professional status and long-term careers, despite predatory social media trolling and inappropriate sexualized behaviour. Emerald Points Series.


Designing and Tracking Knowledge Management MetricsALEXEIS GARCIA-PEREZ, FARAH GHERISS AND DENISE BEDFORDKnowledge management metrics are one of the weakest areas of practice in the field. Overwhelmingly, the literature that exists focuses on case studies and incidents of metrics, rather than approaching the concept holistically. Addressing this lack, the expert authors come together to supply a fundamental discussion of measurement cultures and philosophy, types of metrics, and how to use metrics to grow an organization. They offer a guide for knowledge management professionals to report on progress against goals and targets in terms that are understandable and comparable to their organizational peers, enabling professionals from across businesses to communicate with metrics and engage in wider discussion about the process of achieving organizational visions. Working Methods for Knowledge Management Series.


Digital HR Strategy: How to Design and Implement a Digital Strategy to Drive PerformanceSOUMYASANTO SENDigital HR Strategy is crucial reading for all HR practitioners needing to understand and leverage the opportunities technology is generating in the new world of work but are unsure where to start. Digital HR Strategy covers everything from how HR teams can build the company cultures and structures needed to realize the benefits of technology, how to use people data to improve employee experience, invest in appropriate solutions for wellbeing and talent management challenges and how to recruit, upskill and reskill a workforce with the knowledge and expertise they need to succeed in a changing business environment. This book also contains specific advice on how HR professionals can adopt the attitude and mindset needed for HR strategy to succeed in the digital age.


Evidence-Informed Learning Design: Creating Training to Improve PerformanceMIRJAM NEELEN AND PAUL A. KIRSCHNERPacked with tips, tools and examples Evidence-Informed Learning Design enables L&D and training professionals to save both time and money by ensuring that efforts are focused on designing learning that’s proven to be effective. Covering techniques like interleaving and explaining the importance of cognitive load, this book will ensure L&D professionals are fully equipped with the knowledge they need to decide how best to test, measure and reinforce learning in both online, offline and face-to-face scenarios.


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The New Strategist: Shape your Organization and Stay Ahead of ChangeGUNTER MULLER-STEWENSAs organizations face an unprecedented rate of change, how should the role of the strategist adapt to address new challenges? Based on original research and consulting projects from the Institute of Management and Strategy, University of St. Gallen, The New Strategist is a practical guide which explains how to execute strategy, not just think about the theory. It examines day-to-day strategy work, explores the competences required by strategic leaders, and maps out the strategist’s tools of the trade, including processes, initiatives and discourse.


Systems for Manufacturing Excellence: Generating Reliable and Efficient Service OperationsNICK RICH AND MOHAMED AFY SHARARAHSystems for Manufacturing Excellence looks at how people and technology work effectively together to generate high performance manufacturing and service operations. Not everyone is a Toyota but that does not mean we cannot learn from such businesses. The book presents a logic, variety of approaches and methods that underpin the different models of high performance used by ‘world class’ businesses. The authors use examples from their training with Toyota, work with Tesco, and many world class manufacturing businesses that form their research agenda. The book will help teams run each part of their production process for effectiveness and efficiency, with a high level of discipline that supports excellence in performance.


The Ten Commandments of Lean Six Sigma: A Guide for PractitionersJIJU ANTONY, VIJAYA SUNDER M., CHAD LAUX AND ELIZABETH CUDNEYLean Six Sigma is a powerful methodology that reduces waste and variation in an organization and ultimately minimizes operating costs, optimizes productivity, and maximizes customer satisfaction. The success stories speak for themselves, but not all LSS stories have a happy ending, and a large body of scholarly research shows why. What is needed now is a set of accessible general guidelines for organizations seeking to implement and sustain such a powerful, but at times perilous, continuous improvement strategy. The Ten Commandments of Lean Six Sigma provides just that, offering guidance from the perspective of practitioners, researchers and academics who have been involved in training, teaching, researching and consulting on various topics of quality and continuous improvement such as Lean, Six Sigma and LSS.

Pbk | 150pp | 9781789736908 | 2019.11 Emerald Publishing Limited A$36.99 | NZ$43.99 | 216x138mm | UK

Translating Knowledge Management Visions into StrategiesMONIQUE CERUTI, ANGEL WILLIAMS AND DENISE BEDFORDThere is a critical point of failure for every knowledge management effort: when the strategy is isolated from the organization, and when there is no vision anchoring the strategy.In the four sections of this book, expert authors Monique Ceruti, Angel Williams and Denise Bedford guide readers through the building blocks of turning knowledge management visions into strategies. They enable professionals to demonstrate their value to the organization’s strategic future, as well as empowering readers to take a lead in developing a future vision, and to help establish a foundation for a 21st century knowledge organization. Working Methods for Knowledge Management Series.


The Neurodiverse Workplace: An Employer’s Guide to Managing and Working with Neurodivergent Employees, Clients and CustomersVICTORIA HONEYBOURNEEstimates suggest that up to 20% of employees, customers and clients might have a neurodivergent condition - such as dyslexia, autism, Asperger’s, ADHD or dyspraxia - yet these individuals often struggle to gain and maintain employment, despite being very capable. This practical, authoritative business guide will help managers and employers support neurodiverse staff, and gives advice on how to ensure workplaces are neurofriendly. The book demonstrates that neurodiversity is a natural aspect of human variation to be expected and accepted, rather than a deficit to be accommodated.This book is an ideal resource for all employers wanting to support and empower people with specific needs to help create a more inclusive workplace, benefiting both neurodiverse individuals and the companies employing them.

Pbk | 176pp | 9781787750333 | 2019.12 Jessica Kingsley Publishers A$37.99 | NZ$44.99 | 229x152mm | UK

POLITICAL SCIENCEMachiavelli’s Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed VICKIE B. SULLIVANMachiavelli’s ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes elements of both understandings arrayed in a wholly new way. In this illuminating study, Sullivan shows Machiavelli’s thought to be a highly original response to what he understood to be the crisis of his times.

Pbk | 252pp | 9781501747847 | 2020.01 Northern Illinois University Press A$51.99 | NZ$62 | 216x140mm | USA


Energy, Economics, and Ethics: The Promise and Peril of a Global Energy TransitionKENNETH MARTENS FRIESENWe are in the midst of an enormous global energy transition happening before our eyes. Alternative energy forms including solar, wind, water, and bio-fuels are challenging the established energy sources that have fuelled the industrial era for the past century. As we look to this century’s energy future an examination of the past is important to understand how these choices will be made. What political, economic, and ethical lessons can be learned from how coal, oil, and natural gas became the power of the 20th century? Are those lessons instrumental in determining future decisions about emerging alternative energy choices? The opportunities and the risks involved in making, or not making these choices are enormous.

Pbk | 176pp | 9781786606594 | 2020.01 Rowman & Littlefield International A$68.99 | NZ$82.99 | 229x152mm | USA

Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern PhilosophyWAYNE CRISTAUDOEver since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in the names drawn upon by the community. In this critical history of modern philosophy, Cristaudo develops the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the ‘way of ideas’ to its own detriment. Its ever-shifting dominant ideas contribute to capturing and imprisoning rather than expanding our thinking.Political Theory for Today Series.Wayne Cristaudo is professor of political science at Charles Darwin University.


Memory, Identity, and Commemorations of World War II: Anniversary Politics in Asia PacificDAQING YANG AND MIKE MOCHIZUKIWhy do some governments and societies attach great significance to a particular anniversary year whereas others seem less inclined to do so? What motivates the orchestration of elaborate commemorative activities in some countries? What are they supposed to accomplish, for both domestic and international audience? In what ways do commemorations in Asia Pacific fit into the global memory culture of war commemoration? In what ways are these commemorations intertwined with current international politics? This book presents the first large-scale analysis of how countries in the Asia Pacific and beyond commemorated the seventieth anniversaries of the end of World War II.

Pbk | 220pp | 9781498567718 | 2019.11 Lexington Books | A$62.99 | NZ$75.99 229x152mm | USA

The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about ItJULIA CAGEOne person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power to decide elections. But it’s hardly news that, in reality, political outcomes are heavily determined by the logic of one dollar, one vote. We take the political power of money for granted. But does it have to be this way? In The Price of Democracy, Julia Cagé combines economic and historical analysis with political theory to show how profoundly systems in North America and Europe, from think tanks and the media to election campaigns, are shaped by money. She proposes fundamental reforms to bring democracy back into line with its egalitarian promise. 72 illustrations.

Hbk | 416pp | 9780674987289 | 2020.02 Harvard University Press | A$74 | NZ$90 235x156mm | UK

People and Land: Decolonizing Theologies JIONE HAVEAEmpires rise and expand by taking lands and resources and by enslaving the bodies and minds of people. Even in this modern era, the territories, geographies, and peoples of a number of lands continue to be divided, occupied, harvested, and marketed. The legacy of slavery and the scapegoating of people persists in many lands, and religious institutions have been co-opted to own land, to gather people, to define proper behavior, to mete out salvation, and to be silent. The contributors to People and Land, writing from under the shadows of various empires—from and in between Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Oceania—refuse to be silent. This book is a protest against the claims of political and religious empires over land, people, earth, minds, and the future.Jione Havea is research fellow with Trinity Theological College and the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology (PaCT) of Charles Sturt University.

Hbk | 230pp | 9781978703605 | 2019.11 Fortress Academic | A$148.99 | NZ$176.99 229x152mm | USA

Permanent Citizens’ Assemblies: A New Model for Public DeliberationLARRY PATRIQUINFor a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments. Governments everywhere are not listening to their citizens’ concerns on matters of fundamental importance. As a result, ordinary men and women of all political persuasions are demanding transformations, not just to government policies, but to the methods of governance themselves. They realize that in the periods between general elections, they have great difficulty having their voices heard, because they have no formal role in constructing political agendas. This book focuses on one way to address this problem, by establishing a continual dialogue between individuals and their governments, hence forcing politicians to constantly pay attention to “the people.”Policy Impacts Series.

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The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency: Find, Fix, FightMILES KITTS

This book focuses on how to understand the relationship between the use of force and the outcomes of such use. Specifically, there is debate as to how to evaluate counterinsurgency conflicts, and what prescriptions flow from that evaluation. The Neo-Classicist school emphasises prescriptions which are either directly from, or inspired by, Cold War counterinsurgency efforts undertaken by anti-communist states. The Revisionist school focuses on how best to evaluate the political dimensions of such conflicts. This book finds that a third approach, Reflective-Action, a conceptual debate that is exposited in three cases.

Miles Kitts is tutor of political science and international relations at the University of Queensland.


Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism LAURIE M. JOHNSONThis original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides’s history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes’s philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides’s.

Pbk | 276pp | 9781501747809 | 2020.01 Northern Illinois University Press A$51.99 | NZ$62 | 229x152mm | USA

Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing StatesERIN METZ MCDONNELLCorruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries, however some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states have instead a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity.

Pbk | 248pp | 9780691197364 | 2020.02 Princeton University Press | A$59.99 | NZ$73 235x156mm | USA

Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in AfghanistanROMAIN MALEJACQDrawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen.

Hbk | 264pp | 9781501746420 | 2020.01 Cornell University Press | A$78 | NZ$94 229x152mm | USA

PUBLIC POLICYUneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesJENNIFER CLARKThe city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while saving money. They will be more of everything that a twenty-first century urban planner, citizen, and elected official wants: more efficient, more sustainable, and more inclusive. Is this true? In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark considers the potential of these emerging technologies as well as their capacity to exacerbate existing inequalities and even produce new ones.

Pbk | 320pp | 9780231184977 | 2020.01 Columbia University Press | A$62 | NZ$75 216x140mm | USA

RESEARCHMentoring to Empower ResearchersSAM HOPKINS, SUSAN A. BROOKS AND ALISON YEUNGThis book provides guidance on how to set up mentorship programmes in your institutions, and the skills of an effective mentor, including: mentorship for transition points; skills development needed for publication, funding application and networking; mentorship for performing supervision duties. This is a practical and easy-to-use guide that draws on the editors’ extensive experience, and an invaluable tool for practitioners, career advisors and academics working in research and skills development.Success in Research Series.

Pbk | 184pp | 9781526465115 | 2020.01 SAGE Publications Ltd | A$63 | NZ$76 234x156mm | UK

Qualitative Research Methods 2edMONIQUE HENNINK, INGE HUTTER AND AJAY BAILEYPractical and straightforward, this book is a multidisciplinary introduction to the process of planning, conducting and analysing qualitative research, from selecting appropriate methods to publishing your findings. Built around the authors’ Qualitative Research Cycle – consisting of the design, data collection and analytic cycles – this pragmatic guide clearly demonstrates the steps you need to take to ensure your research is rigorous and robust. Drawing on decades of experience teaching workshops, the book is packed with techniques and tools to help you turn theory and method into research practice.


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Your Research Project: Designing, Planning, and Getting Started 4edNICHOLAS WALLIMANWith a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives you the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for your research project. The new edition of this bestselling book will help you: explain research theory within the context of your own project; curate, structure, and format your literature review; anticipate the challenges of social media and web-based research; apply ‘how to’ tips quickly to your own research planning and design; monitor your progress in the field with checklists; develop writing habits to use as a springboard for dissertations, reports, and articles; and build a foundation of practical, general research skills like time management, organisation, and critical thinking to carry you beyond your project.DISCOUNT ON THIS BOOK IS 33%.


SCIENCELove is the Drug: The Chemical Future of Our RelationshipsBRIAN D. EARP AND JULIAN SAVULESCUWhat if there were a pill for love? Or an anti-love drug, designed to help us break up? This controversial and timely new book argues that recent medical advances have brought chemical control of our romantic lives well within our grasp. Substances affecting love and relationships, whether prescribed by doctors or even illicitly administered, are not some far-off speculation - indeed our most intimate connections are already being influenced by pills we take for other purposes, such as antidepressants. Will relationships be the same in the future? Will we still marry? It may be up to you to decide whether you want a chemical romance.

Hbk | 280pp | 9781526145413 | 2020.01 Manchester University Press | A$52.99 | NZ$63 234x156mm | UK

STUDY AIDSStand Up and Be Heard: Taking the Fear Out of Public Speaking at UniversityROB GRIEVEPublic speaking is an integral skill not only in study but in life, yet giving presentations, oral assessments, or even talking in groups is a terrifying prospect for many students. This book is filled with tips and tricks cultivated through Rob Grieve’s experience in running public speaking workshops at university. Taking the fear out of public speaking at university, he teaches you how to develop your public speaking skills and build your confidence; so whether you’re giving a presentation or just talking with friends you can face the situation without fearStudent Success Series.

Pbk | 192pp | 9781526463616 | 2020.01 SAGE Publications Ltd | A$41.99 | NZ$49.99 210x148mm | UK

Writing EthnographicallyPAUL ANTHONY ATKINSONThis original and authoritative exploration of ethnographic writing comes from one of the world’s leading academics in the field, Paul Atkinson. The third book in his seminal quartet on ethnographic research, it provides thoughtful, reflective guidance on a crucial skill that is often difficult to master. Informed throughout by extracts from Paul’s own writing, this book explores and examines a broad range of types and genres of ethnographic writing, from fieldnotes and ‘confessions’, to conventional ‘realist’ writing and more. Whilst highlighting the possibilities and implications of ethnographic text, this valuable resource will help those conducting ethnographic research select and adopt the most appropriate approach for their study.


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