Palgrave Macmillan

A homeless waif roams the villages of 14th-century England, sleeping in dung heaps and begging for scraps. A girl with no future and no hope, whose only name is Brat. But then Brat meets Jane the Midwife, the important-looking lady with the starched wimple who badly needs a helper. ...

Foreword by Alex J. Pollock, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, USA. He was President and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago from 1991 to 2004 and is the author of Boom and Bust (2011). A must read for anyone seeking protection against the forces of economic destruction unleashed by the Federal Reserve. ...

Islamophobia is the name given to the virulent anti-Islamic prejudice that has been hyped by the news media and seized upon by cynical politicians. Five essays by six specialists on Islam in America provide important insights into Islamophobia as a conflict over American identity during a time of crisis. The authors clarify the way that differences...

Look behind the headlines of the global economy and see how it really works--from migrant workers to banking CEOs. Part travel guide, part owner's manual, this is an absorbing, accessible, and essential road map for every citizen of the global economy in the 21st century....

Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by the advocates of global civil society,...

This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk and how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems and subjective lenses of perception to pressure governments to insure against risk....