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Work after Globalization
Guy Standing
In this ground-breaking book, Guy Standing offers a new perspective on work and citizenship, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century.eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Strategic Conflict Management
Peter-J Jost, Utz Weitzel
Whenever a group of individuals comes together and interact in order to reach a common goal, differing individual preferences can lead to conflict. This book focuses on the management of these internal conflicts within business organizat... -
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Obesity, Business and Public Policy
Edited by Zoltán J. Ács, Alan Lyles
The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical commun...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Party Politics and Social Welfare
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Silke van Dyk, Martin Roggenkamp
Christian and Social Democratic parties have been the driving force behind welfare state developments post-WWII. This valuable book investigates whether continued party differences have contributed significantly to the design of social w... -
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Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance
Svetozar Pejovich, Enrico Colombatto
Capitalism has outperformed all other systems and maintained a positive growth rate since it began. Svetozar Pejovich makes the case within this book that a major reason for the success of capitalism lies in the efficiency-friendly incen...eBook:Find out more$41.56
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Unfunding Terror
Jimmy Gurulé
The book begins with a discussion of how shutting down the pipelines of funding is as important as dismantling the terrorist cells themselves. Next, the book covers the various means and methods used by terrorist groups to raise money, a...eBook:Find out more$66.36
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Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts
Edward Christie
The book has been written to meet the requirements of any environmental professional – lawyer, scientist, engineer, planner – who directly, or indirectly, may be involved in development or planning conflicts when the environment is an is...eBook:Find out more$66.36
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Dissent and the Failure of Leadership
Edited by Stephen P. Banks
A timely discussion of dissent as a critical factor that differentiates leadership failures and successes. This book explores the vital but largely unrecognized connections between leadership and dissent. From interdisciplinary perspec...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making
Edited by Clifford S. Russell, Duane D. Baumann
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Managing International Financial Instability
Fabrizio Saccomanni
Recurrent instability has characterized the global financial system since the 1980s, eventually leading to the current global financial crisis. This instability and the resultant disruptions – sovereign debt defaults, exchange rate misal...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Business Relating Business
Ian Wilkinson
Business Relating Business argues that business performance depends on the way a firm is connected to other firms and organisations and not just its own skill and resources. The book synthesises thinking from marketing, management, econo...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Unmasking the Entrepreneur
Campbell Jones, André Spicer
This book asks what lies behind the friendly face of the entrepreneur. It challenges the widespread idea that entrepreneurship is a necessary and good thing, subjecting ‘the entrepreneur’ to critical analysis. Unmasking the Entrepreneur ...