Provides case studies, commentary and analysis on the mining sector from international experts in business, across the four…

A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening…

The purpose of this book is to explore the principle and practice of finance and accounting, both in the USA and in the UK,…

Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public…

This collection explores the relationship between new equality regimes and continued societal inequalities, exploring…

Focused on the particular needs of superintendents of districts of fewer than ten thousand students, the chapters teach…

This book argues that there has been a common European Union (EU) foreign policy towards six countries of Eastern Europe -…

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which…

This book advances a new framework for learning to teach, using in-depth case studies to show how learning to teach-in any…

The Literature of Nationalism concerns literature in its broadest sense and the manner in which, in belles lettres, the oral…

Since the end of the Cold War capitalism has become the dominant form of economic and political organization across the…

This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human…

The authors explain why the discovery and development of natural resources is commonly associated with unstable and unequal…

This authoritative text examines the arrangements at the centre of Whitehall for advising the British prime minister and…

Will the flames of war in the Middle East be fanned or quenched by water? This is the central question addressed by this…

Managing Organizations in the United Arab Emirates seeks to familiarize readers with the nature of doing business and…

The book brings together politicians, academics and policy-makers to address recent experience and the way ahead after the…

Violent politics in Northern Ireland has lasted thirty years and cost four thousand lives and billions of pounds. It…

This collection of essays explores the relationship between the Chechens and their Russian conquerors, tracing the growth of…

Micro-econometric analyses cover a wide range of new innovation 'input' and 'output' indicators. Among the robust findings…

This book explores how using small groups in second language classrooms supports language learning. Chappell's experience as…

This is a collection of essays which were published between 1973 and 1985 in the CSE journals "Bulletin of the Conference of…

This book examines how China's decentralization process has affected and will affect the country's macroeconomic performance…

This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his…

Arguing that Latin America must face the challenges of innovation for productivity, and inclusion of the population into…

Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that…

This book draws on case studies of social, economic and political governance policies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to…

Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to the new realism.…

evidence or arguments in support of the Alliance taking on new tasks like peacekeeping and enlarging eastward to include…

This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for…

An interdisciplinary group of scholars from the global North and South critically explore the global deepening of market…

This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on…

Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from…

In Western countries, the theories and practices of citizenship and democracy have come under intense scrutiny. The…

This book provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist international-political…

This work presents a rethinking of Critical Philosophy through the recovery of a larger sense of 'aesthetics' in Kant. This…

This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and…

The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's adjustment policies have compelled many…

In this book, economist Masazumi Wakatabe explains how Japan's economic revitalization can be used to help us understand the…

This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical…

Insights from varied disciplines such as: physics, mythology, psychology, philosophy, statistics, and systems theory to…

This study examines French women's writing and representations of the Occupation in post-'68 France. The author looks at the…

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and…

This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and…

Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's…

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will…

The book investigates why a country facing issues that needed to be tackled nationwide chose to decentralize when it moved…

Through a rhetorical analysis, this book explores how the parties in a coalition government create a united public front…