Most Popular Books by Ian Ward

A structured approach to teaching the skills of solving word problems and understanding the language of mathematics

Games to encourage and reinforce addition, multiplication, subtraction and division

The English Constitution addresses two burning contemporary and complementary questions; one regarding the so-called English ''question'', the changing identities of England and English-ness, and a second regarding the changing shape of the Anglo-British constitution. It is suggested that there are both internal and external pressures that are driving the reformation of our constitutional order. There are internal pressures of decay, even corruption, and popular apathy, and there are external pressures brought to bear by the geopolitical challenges of the new world order and the new Europe. The present ''project'' of constitutional reform inaugurated by the present government is supposed to reflect these pressures. This book challenges this assumption, arguing that a far more radical re-constitution is required, involving: deeper institutional reforms (the most pressing being the abrogation of monarchy, and the established Church); geopolitical reforms to recast the devolutionary settlement and redefine English regionalism; and perhaps most importantly, conceptual reform, reform that will embrace the need to rebalance the constitution and to promote greater accountability and democracy. It is intended that the book will provide a stimulating text for both academics and students; advancing a series of original ideas on a subject of considerable contemporary interest. Along the way it discusses most of the major topics, institutions and debates which are ordinarily addressed in public law courses, and equivalents in non-law disciplines.

My dissertation presents an alternative approach to religious influences in democratic discourse by putting contemporary political theory into dialogue with important developments in critical social thought, the academic study of religion and the philosophy of language. Through critical readings of Jurgen Habermas and John Rawls, I argue that political theorists must break from prevailing conceptions of the public sphere and public reason if they are to understand these influences. My approach instead emphasizes the many different roles religious languages play in sites of democratic action called ''publics.'' This alternative allows us to develop subtler analyses of the normative questions raised by religious difference in democratic discourse, and shifts the locus of normative attention from a secularist concern with religion to a democratic concern with domination.

Provides economics students with a historical perspective of the Soviet economic system from 1917 to the present day. It includes chapters on Stalinism, the Liberman-Kosygin Reform, and the Gorbachev Model. The author is a senior lecturer in economics at Monash University.