The Shaping of Foreign Policy

How are foreign policy decisions made? This volume shows the various approaches to answer this question. In their introduction, Jacobson and Zimmerman make clear the goals and techniques of the comparative analysis of foreign policy behavior and, following this, they provide seven basic essays exemplifying, with variations, the principal approaches used to explain foreign policy behavior: the systemic, the environmental, the societal, the governmental, and the idiosyncratic (or psychological). Jan F. Triska and David D. Finley illustrate the systemic approach as applied to Soviet-American relations. Harold and Margaret Sprout then deal with the significance of the physical environment in the study of international politics. Two essays follow--by, respectively, Karl W. Deutsch and Gabriel A. Almond--representing the merger of international and comparative studies in this field. The contribution by Henry A. Kissinger examines the relationship of certain governmental systems to foreign policy behavior. The editors' introduction and selections reflect excitingly and accurately the "state of the art" of comparative foreign policy analysis and place before the reader, in clear and compact form, the continuing dialogue among scholars about one of the most controversial areas in the study of political processes.

Amazing Malaysian: Recipes for Vibrant Malaysian Home Cooking

Musa, Norman

Humor & Entertainment

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Having a baby can be a costly business but Elen Lewis shows how it need not mean financial ruin. Her timely and indispensable book provides practical advice on what’s worth splashing out on and where to cut corners — from pregnancy through to birth and beyond.

The Resourceful Mum's Handbook

Parenting & Relationships

Lewis, Elen

Parenting

Don’t know isosceles from equilateral? Or whether or not you’ve left a participle dangling? This homework primer for grownups, covering math, grammar, history and sciences, is packed with essential facts and theories to help reignite those dormant brain cells.

Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learnt at School...and Promptly Forgot

Foley, E.

Coates, Beth

Puzzles & Games

Maps of My Life

From the author of the No. 1 bestselling Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade, and with full-colour maps throughout, this is one of the funniest autobiographical travel memoirs since Bill Bryson’s Lost Continent.

Browning, Guy

Biographies & Memoirs

The Bumper Book of Nature is a gloriously designed treasure trove of nature activities, ideas and information to inspire the whole family to switch off the TV and computer and get outside, whether you live in the deepest inner city, by the sea or on a farm.

The Bumper Book of Nature

Moss, Stephen

Reference

Gerry Stergiopoulos, better known simply as Gerry, the gay Greek heartthrob from Big Brother is every girl’s ultimate best gay friend. And who knows women better? Drawing on years of experience and meticulous research, Gerry’s inimitable book of advice and dating tips is for women of all ages.

Treat Them Mean and Keep Them Keen: The Essential Dating Rule Book

Stergiopoulos, Gerry

Health, Fitness & Dieting

An extraordinary illustrated guide to the apocalypse, or, the end of the world as we know it. Doomsday. Judgment Day. Day of Reckoning. As the man with the sandwich board says, “The end of the world is nigh!” For as long as mankind has walked this earth, we have lived under the shadow of extinction. Whether it be from an Act of God, a natural disaster, or as the result of a man-made disaster, never before has the threat of annihilation been more pressing than right now, at the beginning of the 21st century. A is for Armageddon is a brilliantly funny, thoroughly factual and stunningly illustrated guide to every feasible disaster scenario — from plague, drought and famine, to animal flatulence, obesity and World War III, from economic collapse and terrorism to ozone depletion and chemical sink — accompanied by a critical timeline for when we might expect to die — now, soon, later, or too late. . . it’s already started. From the author of the bestselling 101 Things to Do Before You Die series, this veritable panoply of impending doom, is a catalogue of disasters that will inform and delight in equal measure. Just don’t read it too close to bedtime!

A Is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters

Horne, Richard

This irresistible miscellany of 100 things, both material and intangible, that make up the average life reveals the untold stories behind the everyday things we take for granted and builds up a fascinating picture of the numbers that make up a human life.

The Average Life of the Average Person: How It All Adds up

Engineering & Transportation

Farrington, Tadg

Engineering

In a small gift edition for the “bloke” market, author Fizzbomb has created likeably unlikeable characters you might meet on the street or in the pub. This gallery of modern manhood includes Mr. Bling, Mr. Upyours, Mr. Shoplifter, Mr. Livid, Mr. Pornstar, and lots more.

The Stick Blokes

Comics & Graphic Novels

FIZZBOMB

Comic Strips

Can I Give Them Back Now?: An A-Z of Parenting the Under-Fives

Simmons, Joanna

Curtis, Jay

Humor

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