Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
by W. Nester
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
This book explores humanity's most persistent and tragic problem by answering some crucial questions including: How is military power created and asserted? What are weapons of mass destruction and what is the likelihood of them being used? What are the source, methods, and results of terrorism and counterterrorism?
Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics
Investment Booms and Busts in the World’s Emerging Economic Giant
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Will China eventually be able to eliminate its socialist animal spirits? Highlighting the importance of China's investment booms and busts for both the Chinese and the world economy, Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics describes the origins and evolution of the investment cycle during the command economy period.
The Political Economy of China’s Systemic Transformation
1979 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The future success of China's rapidly growing economy remains uncertain. This book analyzes official documents, data and current writings of recognized academicians investigating China's experience with systemic restructuring.
The Economics of Centralism and Local Autonomy
Fiscal Decentralization in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
A comparative analysis of the process of public sector transition from central planning to market democracy. It is the story of the difficulties and complexities of moving to a system of greater autonomy for the subnational governments of the Czech and Slovak Republics, including the future of fiscal policies after the global recession.
Germany's Energy Transition
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy transition on multiple levels of governance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
In this volume, some of the leading scholars on China's development examine China's responses to the global financial crisis and their implications for China's economy, society, and the international balances of power.
Finding Meaning in Business
Theology, Ethics, and Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Combining creative biblical interpretation, Christian moral reflection, and business expertise, Finding Meaning in Business is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how business leaders, professionals, and students can integrate a sense of calling into their careers and into the business world as a whole.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America. As an interdisciplinary...
Transitioning from the Top
Personal Continuity Planning for the Retiring Family Business Leader
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
How can you move most effectively from the pinnacle of business and leadership success into "post-work" life that energizes you, and leverages your experience and your interests?
This book draws on the experience of several past CEOs to address the important topic of ‘personal continuity’...
Reinstating the Ottomans
Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the establishment of the nation-state.
The Balkan Prospect
Identity, Culture, and Politics in Greece after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities came down, and Greeks had to reorient themselves toward their immediate neighbors and redefine their place within Europe and the new, more fluid global order....
Pivoting
A Coach's Guide to Igniting Substantial Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Change is a necessary, though sometimes challenging part of staying relevant, being engaged and seeking ways to flourish in one’s life. Coaching helps individuals develop coherent strategies for their life and work and to tap into their strengths and inspiration. Often our clients find themselves...
'History Wars' and Reconciliation in Japan and Korea
The Roles of Historians, Artists and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the origins and possible future direction of the Northeast Asia “history wars.” Leading scholars in history, literary studies, and education present the complex issue in a historical context by assessing its political and cultural dimensions,...
Forensic Economics
Assessing Personal Damages in Civil Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation. In federal and state courts in the United States, as well as in other nations, when one party sues another, the suing party is required not only to prove that the...