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Can There Be Reform without Democracy?Drawing on interviews with Putin, other leading figures, and ordinary Russians,        Andrew Jack, former Moscow Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, describes how the        former KGB official emerged from the shadows of the Soviet secret police and lowly        government jobs to become the most powerful...

Musicians Battle for the Survival of New OrleansPacked with indelible portraits of individual artists and informed by John Swenson's encyclopedic knowledge of the city's unique and varied music scene, New Atlantis is a stirring chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the culture that gives New Orleans its grace and magic. The book follows some...

With engaging new contributions from the major figures in the fields of public administration, public management, and public policy The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy is a key point of reference for anyone working in American politics today....

The Macedonian Question-the struggle over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities-is one of the most intractable issues in Balkan history. Dimitris Livanios explores the British dimension to the problem, from the outbreak of the Second World War to the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split....

Elliott's groundbreaking 1995 book,  Music Matters: A New Philosophy in Music Education, introduced the praxial theory of music education which argues for a socially and artistically grounded concept of music and music education, challenging the field's traditional "e;absolutist"e; foundations. Praxial Music Education collects the responses...