Land Law

Land Law provides a clear and straightforward introduction to the basic English land law rules enabling the student to gain a firm grounding in the subject. It uses accessible language, tables and diagrams, and stresses a full understanding of a few important cases rather than ...

Developments in the European Union 2

Bringing together specially- commissioned chapters by leading authorities and rigorously edited for coherence and accessibility, this all-new replacement for Developments in the European Union provides state-of-the-art coverage of the EU as it expands and reconstitutes itself in the early Twenty-first-century. Ranging broadly across the economic ...

Europe recast

a history of European Union

European Union enlargement

Since its first enlargement in 1973, expansion has become a way of life for the EU. The current round of enlargement is, however, unprecedented in its scale, in the diversity of applicants, and in the impact on EU structures and policies. This major new text ...

The new regional politics of development

A broad-ranging assessment of the various development strategies being pursued in the various major regions of the world written to a tight editorial remit by leading authorities on each region. Its aim is to map new patterns of development and inequality moving beyond outdated distinctions ...

Political Theory

An introduction.

The global politics of the environment

Debates about the causes and impacts of global environmental degradation go to the heart of economic and political systems and raise fundamental questions about power and inequity in a globalized world. The comprehensively revised 2nd edition of this popular text provides wide-ranging coverage of the ...

States within States

Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era.

Handbook of electoral system choice

The topic of electoral reform is an extremely timely one. The accelerated expansion of the number of new democracies in the world generates increasing demand for advice on the choice of electoral rules; at the same time, a new reformism in well established democracies seeks ...

Economics,planning and housing

This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus is on providing students with a substantive and sophisticated understanding of the relation of the state and market and such key current ...

Russian nationalism ant the politics of soviet literature

the case of Nash Sovremennik 1981-91

Banking reform in India and China

Banking Reform in India and China seeks to explore the ways in which banking reform is conditioned by a variety of institutional mechanisms. To uncover these dynamics, Saez draws primarily from analytical tools developed in modern game theory and institutional economics. He provides a multidimensional ...

Understanding economic growth

Differences in the growth performances of OECD countries during the 1990s revived the debate over the underlying causes of economic growth. This debate prompted the OECD to undertake a number of in-depth studies into this issue. The main theme can be expressed in a simple ...

The arab-israeli conflict

Since 1945, the struggle between Arab and Jew over the same piece of land has been one of the world's most entrenched and bloody conflicts repeatedly defying attempts at a resolution. The second edition of this successful textbook, sets out the basic arguments on ...

History and the Media

From reich to revolution

German history, 1558-1806

This major new study weaves insights from new research into a comprehensive account of German social, political and cultural development across two and a half centuries. Wilson addresses fundamental questions, such as how the apparently fragile structure of the Holy Roman Empire survived the trauma ...

The textura of society

medieval women in the Southern Low countries

This book proposes to examine the historical experience, both secular and religious, of women in Flanders, one of the most economically dynamic regions of medieval Europe. The articles in this collection are written within the framework of the thesis that medieval Flemish women were more ...

Operations management

Operations Management presents Terry Hill's vision of how operations can deliver real competitive advantage for organizations. Drawing on his extensive industrial and consultancy experience, Hill balances the strategic role of the operations manager with day-to-day management tasks, and shows how each step and decision ...

Creating value through international strategic

Everyday, more and more companies embark on international business. Through a collection of articles by leading scholars in International Business this book answers fundamental questions such as: How do companies create value through global strategy? What are the sources of value creation? How do companies ...

Liquidity risk

managing asset and funding risk

Much critical attention has been given in recent years to market and credit risks, which have a significant effect on corporate and financial operations and must be understood and managed with care. While these areas have rightly received considerable scrutiny, another critical dimension of financial ...