Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Urdu Literary Culture
Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.
Westphalia
The Last Christian Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context.
The Sunna and Shi'a in History
Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Sunni-Shi'i relations have undergone significant transformations in recent decades. In order to understand these developments, the contributors to the present volume demonstrate the complexity of Sunni-Shi'i relations by analyzing political, ideological, and social encounters between the two communities from early Islamic history to the present.
Mary I
Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as queen.
A Monarchy of Letters
Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power.
The French Queen’s Letters
Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.
President Obama and Education Reform
The Personal and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Obama's education agenda. Obama's reforms have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael McShane believe that the Obama-era reforms have led to successful innovation in both the private and public sector.
Quantitative Trading with R
Understanding Mathematical and Computational Tools from a Quant’s Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Quantitative Finance with R offers a winning strategy for devising expertly-crafted and workable trading models using the R open source programming language, providing readers with a step-by-step approach to understanding complex quantitative finance problems and building functional computer code.
Cliques and Capitalism
A Modern Networked Theory of the Firm
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations. Using this approach, she proposes two models: one that is a realistic American version and another that is a futuristic sustainable model. Both are new networked...
International Accounting Harmonization
Adopting Universal Information Methods for a Global Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
International Accounting Harmonization analyzes the differences between national accounting rules and international accounting methods, showing that when firms adopt international accounting standards they achieve significantly higher positive coefficients compared with firms that only take on local accounting strategies.
Global Perspectives on Insurance Today
A Look at National Interest versus Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Many risks face the global insurance industry today, including the aging populations of developed countries, competition from other financial institutions, and both disparate and quickly changing regulatory demands, to name a few. The book s contributors offer their unique perspectives on challenges confronting the insurance industry and how attendant risks can be most effectively managed.
The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Games
A Soviet-American Surrogate War
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states.
Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets
How Psychology Influences Investors and Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Behavioral Finance helps investors understand unusual asset prices and empirical observations originating out of capital markets. At its core, this field of study aids investors in navigating complex psychological trappings in market behavior and making smarter investment decisions. Behavioral Finance...