The economics of sports broadcasting

Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today's lucrative international market. This new textbook explains the economics underlying the sports broadcasting phenomenon. The specific regulatory culture governing sports broadcasting means that the financial economy of this area has ...

Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media

This collection of original essays addresses a number of questions seeking to increase our understanding of the role of blogs in the contemporary media landscape. It takes a provocative look at how blogs are reshaping culture, media, and politics while offering multiple theoretical perspectives and ...

Charisma and fascism in interwar Europe

Fascism remains a topic that fascinates both academic and general audiences. This is the first book to look systematically at the leaders of fascism and related movements in the inter-war era. It shows how fascist leaders came to personify their movements and why the "Fuhreprinzip ...

The Koreas

"The Koreas" provides a concise and comprehensive look at the radically different ways the two Koreas have dealt with the growing challenges of globalization. Presenting a succinct, historically informed introduction to North and South Korea, Charles K. Armstrong considers the shifting and multiple meanings of ...

Jevon's economics

William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of economics

William Stanley Jevons was one of the founding fathers of modern economic thought, whose work marked a new chapter in its history bridging the gap between classical and neo-classical economics. In this ambitious and incisive work, Bert Mosselmans provides a synthetic approach to Jevons' theory ...

Rosa Luxemburg and the critique of political economy

Table of Contents: 1. General Introduction: Rosa Luxemburg on Capitalist Dynamics, Distribution, and Effective Demand Crises 2. Rosa Luxemburg#s Critique of Marx#s Schemes of Reproduction: A Re-evaluation and a Possible Generalisation 3. Where Does the Money Come From? Rosa Luxemburg and the Marxian ...

The Decline of Ricardians economics

politics and economics in Post-Ricardian theory

The influence of political motivations on the decline of classical economics is an old debate amongst historians of economic thought. It has its roots in Karl Marx's suggestions in "Theories of Surplus Value". This book examines this question from a critical perspective using primary ...

The Firm as an entity

implications for economics, accounting and the Law

The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the narrow boundaries of neoclassical economics to an interdisciplinary approach based on accounting and law as well as economics itself. It represents a first synthesis of the authors ...

The legend of Alexander the Great on greek and roman coins

This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not only Alexander's own ...

European warfare in a global context, 1660-1815

This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is made on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict ...

Archaeological surveying and mapping

recording and depicting the lanscape

This is a comprehensive and practical guide to surveying for archaeologists, with clear instructions in, archaeological mapping, recording field work and detailed case studies from the UK, Europe and the US. Phil Howard provides a user's guide to methods and instruments of surveying to ...

Fifty key jewish thinkers

"Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers" is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt ...

Mathematical finance

Core theory, problems and statistical algorithms

Written in a rigorous yet logical and easy to use style, spanning a range of disciplines, including business, mathematics, finance and economics, this comprehensive textbook offers a systematic, self- sufficient yet concise presentation of the main topics and related parts of Stochastic Analysis and statistical ...

Introduction to medieval Europe 300-1550

Surveying the years between 300 and 1550, this outstanding new textbook brings a long, complex and varied period of European history vividly to life for students, researchers and general readers of this period. Covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the growth of cities, kingship ...

The europeanization of national political parties

power and organizational adaptation

This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the increasing relevance of European governance. "The Europeanization of National Political Parties" is the first empirical study to examine the effects of the European Union on the internal organizational dynamics of national ...

Policy transfer in European Union govern

regulating the utilities

This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities. Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how the nature ...

CISG and the unification of International Trade Law

Pushing the boundaries between domestic and unified laws, this book explores the differences between unification and harmonization. Bruno Zeller provides a critical examination of the Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the advances of international jurisprudence and the role of domestic courts, in ...

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Nietzsche on art

Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. "Nietzsche on Art" introduces and assesses: Neitzsche's life and the background to his writings on art ...

Atlas of Medieval Europe

With over 180 maps, expert commentaries and an extensive bibliography, this second edition of an essential reference guide to medieval Europe brings the complex and colourful history of the Middle Ages to life. The "Atlas of Medieval Europe" covers the period from the fall of ...

The hindu world

"The Hindu World" is the most complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture available today. Written by the world's leading scholars on Hinduism, its twenty-four chapters explore the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious ...