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  • Jimmy Carter and China

    Multilateral Competition in the Global Cold War

    by Sheng Peng ...
    Series series A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
    In the late 1970s, with relations between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China strained, the Carter administration saw an opening. The United States and its allies embarked on military and dual-use technology transfers to China as a counterweight to the USSR, transforming rapprochement into full-blown cooperation. Carter’s decision to pivot away from the United States’s traditional ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism

    The Rise and Fall of the Concept of “Socialist Market”

    by Dr. János Mátyás Kovács, Dr. Pencho D. Penchev, Dr. Sheng Peng, Julius Horváth, Hans-Jürgen Wagener, Dr. Piotr Korys, Valentin Cojanu, Oleg Ananyin, Denis Melnik, Jože Mencinger0, Maciej Tyminski1 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of the Concept of "Socialist Market" focuses on the concept of “socialist market,: a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward. Encouraged by the success of non-capitalist mixed economies, market reformers (also called 'market socialists') offered the communist ruling ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation

    Edited by Rosamund Johnston, Jannis Panagiotidis, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Anna Calori, Thuc Linh Nguyễn Vũ, Sheng Peng, Anastassiya Schacht, Philipp Ther ...
    This cutting-edge collection of essays analyzes the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a pivot to explore longer-term processes of economic, social, political, and cultural transformation linked to the rise of neoliberalism and globalization since the 1970s and enduring until now ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Mechanics And Architectural Design - Proceedings Of 2016 International Conference

    by Shi-hong Zhang, Peng-sheng Wei ...
    The 2016 International Conference on Mechanics and Architectural Design (MAD2016) were held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 14 - 15 May 2016. The main objective of this conference is to provide a platform for researchers, academics and industrial professionals to present their research findings in the fields of Architecture, Mechanical and Civil Engineering.This proceedings consists of 90 articles ... Read more

    $173.99 CAD

  • Exchange Behavior in Selling and Sales Management

    by Peng Sheng ...
    Exchange Behavior in Selling and Sales Management presents a pragmatic and easy-to-implement framework for the successful operation of selling and sales management. Focused specifically on the value-exchange behavior of buyers and sellers, the book is composed of eight fundamental building blocks, which provide:* A revolutionary framework to describe the dynamics of consumer and organizational ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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    A Critical Introduction

    by Elliott Liu ...
    Series series Revolutionary Pocketbooks
    The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and ... Read more

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  • Markets in the Name of Socialism

    The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism

    by Johanna Bockman ...
    The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical criticisms of the state. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital

    by Macat Team ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Left in China

    A Political Cartography

    by Ralf Ruckus ...
    'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred ElfstromTracing the fascinating history of left-wing, subversive and oppositional forces in China over the last 70 years, Ralf Ruckus pulls back the curtain on Chinese politics.He looks at the interconnected ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Communism Did Not Collapse

    Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe

    Edited by Martin K. Dimitrov ...
    This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in 1989–91, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Globalization in State Socialist East Central Europe

    Looking Beyond Dominant Narratives

    by Béla Tomka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access Palgrave Pivot explores four major aspects of globalization: foreign trade, capital and information flows, and the movement of people. The book examines how the state socialist countries of East Central Europe fit into the general trend of globalization after WWII. It focuses on three specific countries in the region: Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. The study also considers ... Read more

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  • Ukrainian Migration to the European Union

    Lessons from Migration Studies

    Edited by Olena Fedyuk, Marta Kindler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together research findings from a variety of disciplines in this integrated study of the migration of Ukrainian nationals to the EU. It contextualizes and historicizes this migration against the background of the series of crises experienced by Ukraine and the wider region over the last thirty or so years, from the dissolution of the USSR, through EU border changes, to the failed ... Read more

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