Booms,bubbles and bust in the US stock market

An extremely user-friendly overview of the inner workings with the US stock market. Things have changed a great deal since the heady days of the 1980s and we are now entering an era of profound uncertainty, with most analysts predicting trouble ahead. Indeed, the alarming ...

Principles of environmental eeconomics

Can economic growth be environmentally sustainable? This crucial question goes right to the heart of environmental economics and is a matter of increasing concern globally. The first edition of this popular title was the first introductory textbook in environmental economics that truly attempted to integrate ...

Globalizing human resource management

Globalizing Human Resource Management serves to establish the agenda for global HR as seen through the eyes of HR professionals themselves. The text is a broad, coherent overview of the field of IHRM and a detailed, practical analysis of what is needed to be successful ...

Europe, globalization and sustainable development

This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development. It will interest students and researchers of environmental policy and European politics. INDICE Part ...

Liberation ecologies

environment, development , social movements

At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, Liberation Ecologies elaborates a ...

Tourism in The Caribbean

trends, development, prospects

The Caribbean is one of the premier tourist destinations in the world. Changes in the travel patterns, markets and traveller motivations have brought considerable growth and dramatic change to the region's tourism sector. This book brings together a high calibre team of international researchers ...

Managing change/changing managers

The topic of change management presents students with many challenges. One of the most difficult is making sense of the plethora of guru and hero-manager literature. Managing Change/Changing Managers is an innovative textbook that encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory, presenting a ...

Game theory

a critical text

In recent years game theory has swept through all of the social sciences. Its practitioners have great designs for it, claiming that it offers an opportunity to unify the social sciences and that it it the natural foundation of a rational theory of society. This ...

Global metropolitan

globalizing cities in a capitalist world

Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. The book explores the meaning of the globalizing project in cities ...

World yearbook of education 2004

digital technologies, communities and education

Contemporary spanish politics

New religious movements in the Twenty-First Century

legal, political, and social challenges in global perspective

Turkey

challenges of continuity and change

Japanese modernisation and Mingei Theory

cultural nationalism and oriental orientalism

Social life of early man

The people of Aritama

the cultural personality of a Colombian Mestizo Village

New Europe

imagined spaces

Turkey and european integration

prospects and issues in the post-Helsinki era

Slovenia

The social anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown