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The Ecological Footprint
Andrea Collins, Andrew Flynn
The ecological footprint is one of the most prominent tools used to measure environmental sustainability, and its rise in academic and policy debates since the early 1990s has been remarkable. Drawing upon research and examples from arou...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regulation of the Upstream Petroleum Sector
Edited by Tina Hunter
This discerning and comprehensive work will be a useful entry point for students embarking on study in petroleum law. Academics will find this timely examination to be an indispensible overview of upstream operations. Practitioners will ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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ICT for Transport
Edited by Nikolas Thomopoulos, Mosche Givoni, Piet Rietveld
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are rapidly evolving and taking centre stage in everyday life in the 21st century alongside the increasing importance and value of information. This is particularly evident in the transpor...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Competitive Sports
Edited by Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Késenne, Ruud Koning
The essence of any sports contest is competition. The very unpredictability of a sporting outcome distinguishes it from, say, an opera performance. This volume presents a state of the art overview of the economics of competitive sport al...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Islamic Finance
Hans Visser
This thoroughly updated and revised second edition analyses the ideas behind Islamic finance, the forms Islamic finance has taken in practice and the tension between the two that may occasionally arise. Along with an expanded section on ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Extreme Leadership
Edited by Cristina M. Giannantonio, Amy E. Hurley-Hanson
Much has been written about how leaders and teams function in traditional business settings, but there is comparatively scant literature on the behaviors of leaders and teams facing extreme situations: that is, situations that fall outsi...eBook:Find out more$41.56
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Race, Ethnicity and Welfare States
Edited by Pauli Kettunen, Sonya Michel, Klaus Petersen
In this interdisciplinary volume, leading and emerging scholars examine the relationship between homogeneity and welfare state development. They trace Gunnar Myrdal’s influence on thinking about race in the US and explore current Europea...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Policies in an Age of Austerity
Edited by John Karl Scholz, Hyungypo Moon, Sang-Hyup Lee
Social Policies in an Age of Austerity is the first major publication on the topic, with a particular interest in the United States and the Republic of Korea. The authors of the ten chapters in this book review recent developments in soc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Sustainability of the European Social Model
Edited by Jean-Claude Barbier, Ralf Rogowski, Fabrice Colomb
This book argues that the European Social Model can only be sustained in the current economic crisis if social and employment policies are adequately recognised as integral parts of European economic policy-making. The contributing autho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Comic Art, Creativity and the Law
Marc H. Greenberg
The creation of works of comic art, including graphic novels, comic books, cartoons and comic strips, and political cartoons, is affected, and at times limited, by a diverse array of laws, ranging from copyright law to free speech laws. ...eBook:Find out more$28.76
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Urban Gråsjö, Sofia Wixe
Innovation and entrepreneurship are the prime drivers in the global economy. This scholarly book identifies some of the key forces behind innovation and entrepreneurship at the same time as it closes the gap between science and technolog...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Private Law and Global Supply Chains
Andreas Rühmkorf
This insightful book demonstrates that private law makes a significant contribution to the promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR), but that with certain changes this contribution could be better. Based on the analysis of four...eBook:Find out more$40.00