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  • Why Business Ethics Matters Why Business Ethics Matters
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    Why Business Ethics Matters

    This book links game theory to business ethics by applying the classic Four Temperaments approach to a wide range of moral emotions, and offers academics and students of game theory a perspective...
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  • Women At Sea Women At Sea
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    Women At Sea

    From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely...
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  • Healing Cultures Healing Cultures
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    Healing Cultures

    The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What...
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  • Trade Strategy in East Asia Trade Strategy in East Asia
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    Trade Strategy in East Asia

    The study of regionalism is essential as it has become a vital trend with profound regional and global impacts. Japan, Korea and China are regarded as the key actors for such action in East Asia...
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  • The Return of the Theorists The Return of the Theorists
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    The Return of the Theorists

    Contemporary International Relations is as much a conversation between the living and the dead as it is among the living. Its debates are thoroughly rooted in and shaped by the thought of many bygone...
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  • The Companion to Raymond Aron The Companion to Raymond Aron
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    The Companion to Raymond Aron

    This edited collection brings to light the rare virtues and uncommon merits of Raymond Aron, the main figure of French twentieth-century liberalism. The Companion to Raymond Aron is an essential...
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  • The Best of Business Economics The Best of Business Economics
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    The Best of Business Economics

    Since its establishment in 1965, Business Economics has been an essential resource for those who use economics in the workplace. Its consistent intent has been to distinguish itself from academic...
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  • Social Capital in Development Planning Social Capital in Development Planning
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    Social Capital in Development Planning

    The pursuit of sustainable development and smart growth is a main challenge today in countries around the world. Social capital is an asset of their territorial communities. It is also a...
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  • Juvenile Offenders and Guns Juvenile Offenders and Guns
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    Juvenile Offenders and Guns

    Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel. Guns have multiple meanings and serve many purposes...
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  • The "One China" Dilemma The "One China" Dilemma
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    The "One China" Dilemma

    The new developments across the Taiwan Strait have illuminated the dilemma of the 'One China' policy, which could mislead to inconsistent or even contradictory policies, and result in devastating...
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  • Tropical Forests, International Jungle Tropical Forests, International Jungle
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    Tropical Forests, International Jungle

    Marie-Claude Smouts looks at the issue of rain forest depletion and global environmental policies. Beginning with how the issue entered the world stage in the 1980s despite alarms over the issue in...
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  • Grief in Wartime Grief in Wartime
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    Grief in Wartime

    An examination of private narratives of loss in wartime and publicly legitimized forms of grieving. Drawing on sources such as diaries, poetry and weblogs and using gender as an analytic category,...
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  • International Labour Migration International Labour Migration
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    International Labour Migration

    Studies of international labour migration typically assume that foreign labour is a universal feature of wealthy economies. Exploitation of foreign workers can contribute significantly to employers'...
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  • Governing Complex Societies Governing Complex Societies
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    Governing Complex Societies

    Western societies are becoming increasingly complex and challenging to govern, yet the modern state continues to play a central role in governance. This book presents a detailed analysis of the...
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  • Class Formation, Civil Society and the State Class Formation, Civil Society and the State
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    Class Formation, Civil Society and the State

    Rather than a ranking system based on occupational prestige, this book explains social stratification through political events and decisions. Using analyses of Russia, France, the United States and...
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  • Art and the State Art and the State
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    Art and the State

    This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even...
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  • Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau
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    Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau

    This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau...
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  • Poverty, International Migration and Asylum Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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    Poverty, International Migration and Asylum

    This book examines the economic consequences of immigration and asylum migration, it focuses on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration...
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  • Welfare States and the Future Welfare States and the Future
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    Welfare States and the Future

    This volume presents a thought provoking analysis of key welfare state issues engaging policy makers across the globe. It provides a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the state of welfare...
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  • Economic Policy for a Social Europe Economic Policy for a Social Europe
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    Economic Policy for a Social Europe

    This book poses a critique of neoliberal economic polices in the EU and proposals for alternatives. The book argues that the economic weakness of the EU is the result of the very restrictive economic...
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  • Commercialization of Health Care Commercialization of Health Care
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    Commercialization of Health Care

    Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local...
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  • Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia
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    Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia

    There is a feeling that Asia is at a crossroad, and is facing a new crisis. The earlier crisis of 1997/98 showed that effective systems were missing. Afterwards governments, foreign investors and...
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  • Heterosexism in Health and Social Care Heterosexism in Health and Social Care
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    Heterosexism in Health and Social Care

    This interdisciplinary text develops a theory of heterosexism and provides everyday examples from health and social care environments. It engages with current debates, including intersecting...
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  • Re-Visioning Europe Re-Visioning Europe
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    Re-Visioning Europe

    Drawing on ethno-anthropological fieldwork, this book considers issues of identity and belonging in Europe from a consciously emic perspective. The book explores issues such as borders, migration,...
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  • Policing Football Policing Football
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    Policing Football

    This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches. Megan O'Neill not only sheds light on a topic of intense media interest,...
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  • Language Rights Language Rights
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    Language Rights

    Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas...
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  • Work Identity at the End of the Line? Work Identity at the End of the Line?
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    Work Identity at the End of the Line?

    Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization in the mid-1990s. It combines rich interview...
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  • Labour in a Global World Labour in a Global World
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    Labour in a Global World

    This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range...
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  • Identity and Repartnering After Separation Identity and Repartnering After Separation
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    Identity and Repartnering After Separation

    This book examines the lives and repartnering behaviour of former spouses and co-habitees, groups pivotal to recent marital change. Focusing on contemporary Britain, it examines these people's...
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  • Studies in Modern Childhood Studies in Modern Childhood
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    Studies in Modern Childhood

    In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising perspectives and approaches. They demonstrate...
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  • Unfortunate Objects Unfortunate Objects
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    Unfortunate Objects

    This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by...
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  • Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974 Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974
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    Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974

    This book examines the range and complexity of unionist political identities, ideas and beliefs in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom in the mid-twentieth century. It discusses the careers...
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  • Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace
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    Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace

    The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this...
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  • The State of Law in the South Caucasus The State of Law in the South Caucasus
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    The State of Law in the South Caucasus

    This book evaluates the strength of the rule of law in the South Caucasus, a volatile and strategically important region of the former Soviet Union. Contributors - all of whom who have lived and...
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  • The Long March to Capitalism The Long March to Capitalism
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    The Long March to Capitalism

    The author captures the evolution of Indian industrial capitalism by extending the 'models of capitalism' and 'regulation framework'. Using principally the auto industry and anchoring the analysis to...
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