Richard W Robison

The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle Class Revolution (New Rich in Asia Series)

This is the first volume intheThe New Rich in Asia serieswhich examines the economic, social and political construction of the 'new rich' in the countries and territories of East and South East Asia, as well as their impact internationally. From a western perspective the rise of the emergent busines...

Microbiology for the Health Sciences (4th Edition)

A complete, clinically oriented overview of basic medical microbiology, this book provides a taxonomic approach to organism presentation, using a pathogen-oriented sequence that provides an understanding of the microbe in its setting regardless of the site of infection. Its comprehensive coverage ...

The Neoliberal Revolution: Forging the Market State (International Political Economy)

The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spread of market economies and how neo-liberal agendas are accommodated or hijacked in collisions with a...

Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series)

Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of...

Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics

Now available in paperback, this Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the major themes that have defined the politics of Southeast Asia. It provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge examination of this important subject. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the theoretical and i...

Indonesia: The Rise of Capital

Studies of Indonesian politics have long focused upon the military and the bureaucracy because it is within these institutions that formal power is located, not the parties, unions, chambers of commerce or corporations. However, such an approach can neglect the powerful influences exerted upon the s...

The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Conflict, Crisis, and Change

This new edition updates its predecessor and uses the Asian economic crisis to indicate how theoretical differences identified in the South-East Asian boom were brought into even sharper relief in the analysis of the crisis and recovery strategies.

Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

The international aid industry's experimentation with political economy analysis is on the road to nowhere, so long as major assumptions remain unchallenged; namely, that development is a public good and reform comes from experts and enlightened reformers working in partnership on new institutions, ...

The West End of the Rainbow: An Unorthodox History Featuring Our 19th Century George W. Bush and the Other Washington

Microbiology for the Health Sciences

Microbiology for the Health Sciences: Study Guide

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part a Introduction

Indonesia: The Rise of Capital

The Political Economy of Southeast-Asia: An Introduction

The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Conflict, Crisis, and Change