Cambridge University Press: 13178 books
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s
The Laurel of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of...
by Alastair J. Sinclair, Garston H. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation presents a comprehensive applied approach to the estimation of mineral resources/reserves with particular emphasis on the geological basis of such estimations, the need for and maintenance of a high quality assay data base, the practical use of a comprehensive...
Schrödinger
Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 1992
Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, a great scientist, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Schrödinger, Walter Moore draws upon recollections of Schrödinger's friends, family and colleagues, and on contemporary...
by Lawrence S. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe, and how do they put their beliefs into practice in worship, the family, and society? This down-to-earth...
The Oxford Movement
Europe and the Wider World 1830–1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
The Oxford Movement transformed the nineteenth-century Church of England with a renewed conception of itself as a spiritual body. Initiated in the early 1830s by members of the University of Oxford, it was a response to threats to the established Church posed by British Dissenters, Irish Catholics,...
Corporate Strategy
Tools for Analysis and Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Many companies are not single businesses but a collection of businesses with one or more levels of corporate management. Written for managers, advisors and students aspiring to these roles, this book is a guide to decision-making in the domain of corporate strategy. It arms readers with research-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
This collection of essays has been compiled in honour of Professor Eddy Wymeersch on the occasion of his retirement as professor at Ghent University. His main international academic peers explore developments on the crossroads of company law and financial regulation in Europe and the United States,...
Invasive Species
Risk Assessment and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
With climate change and increasing globalisation of trade and travel, the risks presented by invasive pests and pathogens to natural environments, agriculture and economies have never been greater, and are only increasing with time. Governments world-wide are responding to these increased threats...
by Tim Roughgarden
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Computer science and economics have engaged in a lively interaction over the past fifteen years, resulting in the new field of algorithmic game theory. Many problems that are central to modern computer science, ranging from resource allocation in large networks to online advertising, involve interactions...
The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve
A Return to Jekyll Island
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress...
Commercial Law
Principles and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This innovative textbook examines commercial law and the social and political context in which it develops. Topical examples, such as funding for terrorism, demonstrate this fast-moving field's relevance to today's concerns. This wide-ranging subject is set within a clear structure, with part and...
The Business School in the Twenty-First Century
Emergent Challenges and New Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Questions about the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system continue to stimulate debate amongst deans, educational policy makers and commentators. In this book, three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school...
A Quiet Revolution?
The Rise of Women Managers, Business Owners and Leaders in the Arabian Gulf States
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
An irreversible transformation is taking place in the lives of many thousands of university educated professional women in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Drawing on eight years' participative research and extensive secondary sources, Nick Forster introduces the first...
Fashioning Intellectual Property
Exhibition, Advertising and the Press, 1789–1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Vigorous public debate about intellectual property has a long history. In this assessment of the shifting relationships between the law and the economic, social and cultural sources of creativity and innovation during the long-nineteenth century, Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas examine the 'fashioning'...