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This is an up-to-the-minute revised edition of a text which, since its publication in 1990, has been extremely influential. The great changes of the p...
Of the Cards
BOOK SUMMARY Inspired by a true story, Jim Austin is a professional card counter that takes on the casinos in the game of blackjack. Haunted by his ow...
Regional Discontinuities and Geopolitics
This book explains the historical and philosophical understanding of Eurasia and its current relevance to the formation of the Eurasian Union. It cons...
Prophet for a New Age
New Age writer of the popular Aquarian Conspiracy Marilyn Ferguson observed that many of the leading lights of the New Age movement claim Teilhard as ...
It is now well over a hundred years since the birth of Lenin. If his writings are to have the relevance for contemporary political action, it is neces...
Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites
There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users...
A Journey Through the Italian South
Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon. It describes in painful detail the daily accommodatio...
A new view of the economy as an evolving, complex system has been pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute over the last ten years, This volume is a collec...
Introduces techniques for building applications that integrate large databases with web interfaces. Using a three-tier architecture, the book focuses ...
From Social Democracy to State Capitalisms
The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, th...
This book offers an extended analysis of writers and theatre companies in Britain since 1995, and explores them alongside recent cultural, social and ...
Industrial Society and the Socialist State
In this major new work, David Lane provides a wide-ranging re-evaluation of socialism as an ideology and a political movement. He addresses the nature...
The year 2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union. This may be an appropriate time to evaluate the adoption by previously s...
Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power
As one of the first investigative journalists to publicly question Berlusconi's fitness for government, Economist writer David Lane helped sparked an ...
Before beginning the study of the social system I have chosen to call 'state socialism', it is necessary to define the term and to describe the societ...
First dictated in Urdu at the request of David Lane, this is the controversial autobiography of the late sage, Baba Faqir Chand, a well regarded Maste...
A Guide to Practice in Psychology
The Modern Scientist-Practitioner argues for a radical rethink of how we understand the science-practice relationship and the notion of the scientist-...
The Making and Breaking of State Socialist Society, and What Followed
David Lane outlines succinctly yet comprehensively the development and transformation of state socialism. While focussing on Russia and the countries ...
A Laboratory Manual
Few technical manuals have become standards in biomedicine. Antibodies: A Laboratory Manual, by Ed Harlow and David Lane, has had that status for a de...
Full Employment And The Labour Process In The Ussr
This book seeks to discover the extent to which the claimโthe provision of regular paid labour and a permanent occupation for all who are able to wo...
Some Estimates for OECD Countries
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An accessible book covering the momentous changes that have occurred, and are still occurring, since the fall of the USSR in 1989. Contributions from ...
Identification, Biology and Distribution
Hawkmoths are large charismatic insects with highly variable and colourful larvae. Some species are specialised in their habitat preferences, but othe...
This study shows that the aggregate demand for M1 in the group of countries participating in the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetar...
A Study of the Penitentiary System
Introduction to immunochemistry for molecular biologists and other nonspecialists. Spiral....
Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers
The Other End of the Needle demonstrates that tattooing is more complex than simply the tattoos that people wear. Using qualitative data and an access...
The First Five Years : Extract from a Speech by David Lane, Chairman, Commission for Racial Equality, to the Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service, Leicester, Sunday 28th March 1982
Towards a Political Sociology of State Socialism
The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union โ where the goals and valu...
The Untold Story of Paul Twitchell and Eckankar
Ruling Elites from Gorbachev to Yeltsin
Crucial to the understanding of breakdown and transition are analyses of changes within the internal relations of national elites. In this text the au...
A Modern Dramatization
St. Paul writes in the New Testament that 'our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but...against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.' ...
This is an English translation of Guru Nanak's famous Sri Japji Sahib which was originally written in Gurmukhi script. This is rightly regarded as one...
"Soviet Society under Perestroika" is a stimulating and up-to-date account of the recent upheavals in Soviet society that will fascinate and inform st...