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The Special Relationship delves into the fascinating story behind gridiron football's arrival in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles how the sport became popular in Britain, from the first match at Crystal Palace in 1910 to the modern International Series. It also tells the unique stories of each British player who has competed in the NFL.
After Brexit brings together Gamble's most influential writings on British politics and political economy from the last 40 years, reflecting on issues that animate British politics, from the decline of the economy and reshaping the welfare state to the transformation of political parties and devolution to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The Western Ideology brings together for the first time Andrew Gamble's writings on political ideas and ideologies, which illustrate the main themes of his writing in intellectual history and the history of ideas, including economic liberalism and neoliberalism, and critiques from both social democratic and conservative perspectives.
After a long feast of prosperity in the western world, the crisis in the financial markets has conjured up an old spectre – the spectre of capitalist crisis, which many thought had been finally exorcised. On past experience, a full-blown capitalist crisis would bring with it the threat of slump, collapse, polarisation, conflict, and even war, spreading to all parts of the global economy - hence the great efforts being made to contain the present downturn. This important new book by a leading authority sets the financial crisis of 2007/8 in historical context and assesses its global consequences, how far it might go, and what is to be done.
Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica (Revised Edition) is an extensive sourcebook of information about the most commonly used substances in Chinese herbal medicine. Compiled from leading textbooks in China, this edition presents an in-depth study of 473 medicinal substances. Meticulously illustrated, each herb is identified by its pharmaceutical, botanical and family names, together with its Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English common names. Each entry details the traditional properties, actions and indications, principal combinations, dosage and contraindications of the herb, and contains summaries of abstracts regarding modern pharmacological & clinical research. The book also details the qualities to look for in the appearance of each herb, where it is grown, and when it is harvested. The herbs are conveniently grouped in chapters by function, with chapter summaries that compare and contrast those with similar properties. An introduction describes how to prepare and dispense the herbs. Extensive indices provide easy access and cross references to information throughout the book.
British politics has been crucially shaped by England's role as pioneer of capitalism, by the experience of Empire, and by the particular form of its union with Scotland, Ireland and Wales. With the decline of Empire the attempt to bridge Europe and America has become ever more central to Britain's identity, political economy and ideology. In this major new book, Andrew Gamble assesses the major transformations of British politics under Thatcher and Blair and the stark choices for the future at the start of the 21st century. Winner of the W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize for best book published in political science in 2003.
Čtvrté vydání této učebnice – odborníky nanejvýš příznivě přijaté a i komerčně úspěšné – je čtivým a srozumitelným uvedením do názorových proudů a doktrín, které utvářely světovou politiku a dominovaly jí. Počínaje tradičními ideologiemi 19. století, jako jsou liberalismus, konzervatismus a socialismus a konče tzv. „novými“ ideologiemi jako jsou feminismus, ekologismus a politický islám. Autor objasňuje jak historický vývoj každé z nich, tak jejich vliv na politická hnutí, strany a vlády dnes. Ve své práci představuje myšlenky a hodnoty pro jednotlivé ideologie příznačné a osvětluje konkurující si a leckdy i vzájemně protikladné proudy, ve které tyto myšlenky a hodnoty vyústily. Nové vydání bylo všestranně aktualizováno. Obšírného výkladu se dostalo např. multikulturalismu a neokonzervatismu, které v současnosti hrají významnou roli.
