This book provides an engaging and intellectually challenging introduction to political ideologies, while at the same time giving an accessible route into the subject for those new to politics. Supported by an outstanding companion website, it has strong claims to be the best undergraduate textbook on ideologies on the market. Dr. Mike Gough, University of East Anglia Introduction to Political

Combining lucid exposition with criticism, the author has given us the introduction to Rawls' work which encompasses his entire career.

Democracy in the time of Mbeki, third in IDASA's democracy index series, is a scorecard of the current state of South African democracy.

A tutorial to LISP, full of examples that explains the essential concepts of Lisp programming, plus an up-to-date summary of ANSI Common Lisp, listing the various operators in the language. This book highlights Lisp features such as automatic memory management, manifest typing, and closures.

A student-focused guide to concepts, such as the state, freedom, equality, justice, democracy, citizenship, difference, victimhood, civil disobedience, and human rights. This book relates political concepts to political realities through effective use of real-world examples. It suitable for students taking an undergraduate course in Politics.

MMS has evolved from the huge popularity of the SMS text service for GSM networks. It is a departure from the transport mechanism used for SMS (which is based on the GSM signalling channels) to the use of IP to transport messages within the MMS network. To this end, MMS has similarities with Internet email and standard IETF protocols.

The author examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, Internet startups and more. He also tells important stories about the kinds of people behind technical innovations, revealing their character and their craft.

Covers a range of traditional and 'new' ideologies. This work is thoughtful, historically grounded and relevant to the world of politics.

Five leading political commentators record and measure the depth and degree of democracy in their area of specialisation, grading South Africa's performance to date. This book produces a profile of South Africa's democracy seven years after the 1994 founding election. The five areas of inquiry are: * Consensus on and participation in government - Steven Friedman * Selection of decision-makers - ..