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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “leo granberg”
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  • The Other Russia

    Local experience and societal change

    by Leo Granberg, Ann-Mari Sätre ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Most recent research seeks to explain contemporary changes in Russia by analysing the decisions of Russian leaders, oligarchs and politicians based in Moscow. This book examines another Russia, one of ordinary people changing their environment and taking opportunities to provoke societal changes in small towns and the countryside. Russia is a resource-rich society and the country’s strategy and ... Read more

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  • Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development

    Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

    by Leo Granberg, Kjell Andersson ...
    Series series Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
    The LEADER programme, initiated in 1991, aims to improve the development potential of rural areas in the European Union by drawing on local initiatives and skills. Highlighting this unique policy approach, this book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER’s achievements and restrictions at the local level in a comparative way in order to discuss its merits and problems. What makes LEADER ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Europe's Green Ring

    by Leo Granberg, Imre Kovách ...
    Series series Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
    Around the fringe of Europe lies a green ring of countries which have followed different pathways into modernity from the industrial core of the continent and have, until recently, been characterized by a strong agrarian presence in their politics, economy and culture. This book brings together case studies from both the post-socialist countries and EU member states which make up the green ring to ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Metropolitan Ruralities

    by Terry Marsden ...
    Series Book 23 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of living among an urban, academically educated middle class, an actual instance of which is the interest ... Read more

    $206.69 CAD

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    Foundations of Political Economies

    by Leo McCann ...
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    $100.79 CAD

  • The Party

    The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

    by Richard McGregor ...
    "A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China's secretive rulers." —The Economist"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard ... Read more

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  • Inventing the Future

    Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

    by Nick SRNICEK, Alex Williams ...
    This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism)Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Counter-Revolution

    Liberal Europe in Retreat

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in Europe today. It examines the counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt letters to the late ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Economist: State Capitalism

    The Visible Hand

    by The Economist Publications (PUK Rights) ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.As Western liberalist capitalism flounders in the wake of global recession, state backed companies are slowly taking over.The ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • SOS

    Alternatives to Capitalism

    by Richard Swift ...
    Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist.In this fully updated new edition Richard Swift examines the past shortcomings and present health of not one ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Public Administration

    Key Issues Challenging Practitioners

    by Michael Anthony Tarallo ...
    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... Read more

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  • Anti-Capitalism

    by Ezequiel Adamovsky ...
    Translated by Marie Trigona ...
    In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical ... Read more

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