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Hardcover. Argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created inequality and lead to economic catastrophe. The author discusses that the rich have confiscated wealth and income from the poor and middle class to a far greater extent than many realize. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCLF; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600461
- ISBN
- 9780230600461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.64
€ 52.64
Paperback. This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements. It describes the WTO's origins, structure, and growing pains as it has had to face challenges from within and without. Num Pages: 239 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; JPSN; KCL; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600218
- ISBN
- 9780230600218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
The WTO Primer: Tracing Trade's Visible Hand through Case Studies
Fulton, Richard, Buterbaugh, Kevin
Hardcover. This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements. It describes the WTO's origins, structure, and growing pains as it has had to face challenges from within and without. Num Pages: 239 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCLT1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600201
- ISBN
- 9780230600201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; KCM; KNSG; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600058
- ISBN
- 9780230600058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. Do you want to acquire the knowledge and skills to give you greater influence in political situations at work? Perhaps you want to make sense of the political behaviour you see around you. Or maybe you want to acquire a set of effective tools to help you work more productively in a political workplace. If so, this book is for you. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJMV2; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230595415
- ISBN
- 9780230595415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In particular, the contributions explore the premises and implications of plausible reasoning when probabilities are non-measurable or unknown, and when the space of possible events is only partially identified. Editor(s): Scazzieri, Roberto. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCK; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594272
- ISBN
- 9780230594272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.00
€ 120.00
Hardcover. In a difficult economic climate it is more important than ever to manage bad behaviour in the workplace and minimize the damage negative and destructive employees can have on an organization. This book looks at the problems companies can face but also shows how to resolve these issues and work towards a positive outcome. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 charts. BIC Classification: KJMV2; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584747
- ISBN
- 9780230584747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.14
€ 79.14
Hardcover. Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584648
- ISBN
- 9780230584648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Hardcover. This book examines the new paradigm of change in technology intensive industries, it provides theoretical and empirical analysis, using non-parametric models of efficiency. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCA; KCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328. 176 pages, 22 black & white tables, 3 figures. This book examines the new paradigm of change in technology intensive industries, it provides theoretical and empirical analysis, using non-parametric models of efficiency. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: KCA; KCG. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 15. Weight: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230581913
- ISBN
- 9780230581913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need. Num Pages: 455 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580992
- ISBN
- 9780230580992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.28
€ 121.28
Hardcover. The projection of authenticity is one of the key pillars of marketing. Research reveals that consumers seek authenticity through the brands they choose. Based on extensive research with consumers and brand managers this book offers seven guiding principles for building brand authenticity. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black & white tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580312
- ISBN
- 9780230580312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.94
€ 170.94
Hardcover. The book offers an inquiry into the construction of employment practices in a multinational company across Western and Eastern Europe. In the complex corporate and host-country influences, social interaction between the firm and local actors is presented as the underlying social mechanism through which work practices are constructed. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJW; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579774
- ISBN
- 9780230579774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. Performance is the key outcome of high morale, and the reason why it should be taken so seriously: with research gathered from some of the world's largest employee opinion databases and best academic centres, the authors lay out the morale-performance connection. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579422
- ISBN
- 9780230579422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84
Hardcover. Car manufacturing epitomizes modern industry, yet the overall perspective has been lost in speculation and self-promotion. Based on six years of research, this book is the first in years to reassess the industry. The result is a paradigm that quantifies the fundamental economies of scale and firm organizational structure. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJV; KNDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579248
- ISBN
- 9780230579248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.35
€ 63.35
Hardcover. An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives. Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CJA; EBA; KJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396. A Multi-perspectived Analysis. Series: Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse. 232 pages, 1 tables, 4 figures. An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: CFG; CJA; EBA; KJP. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 19. Weight: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579118
- ISBN
- 9780230579118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Paperback. Proposing a critical analysis of the new corporate responsibilities in a globalizing world this title offers a conceptual and critical analysis of the new trend towards Corporate Social Responsibility and argues that the legitimacy of the corporation depends on what it can bring to our transition towards sustainable development. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230578128
- ISBN
- 9780230578128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.61
€ 61.61
Hardcover. The credit and banking crisis which hit the western world in 2007/2008 has and will continue to have far-reaching after-effects. At their core are Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and Credit Default Swaos (CDSs), the main themes of this book. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 302 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCX; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230578111
- ISBN
- 9780230578111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.00
€ 120.00
Paperback. This comprehensive study of the rise of multinational corporations from emerging economies explores the basis of their success. Andrea Goldstein argues that the history of multinational business offers valuable lessons for the present and shows how emerging multinationals are embedded in dense political, social and ethnic networks. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; KCM; KCP; KJK; KJVG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577947
- ISBN
- 9780230577947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Hardcover. Susan Gunelius uncovers how a brand about sex survived and thrived despite attacks from every direction, in an increasingly competitive market and jaded consumers. It's the story of brand building, brand value, brand longevity and the ultimate brand champion. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577893
- ISBN
- 9780230577893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577817
- ISBN
- 9780230577817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.15
€ 119.15
The Learning Advantage: Six Practices of Learning-Directed Leadership
Kayes, D. Christopher, Kayes, Anna
Hardcover. Highlighting the best in management learning theory and practices, the authors provide a comprehensive approach to leadership from a learning perspective. This exciting new book, from award-winning authorities on learning, describes how leaders gain the advantage when they cultivate learning in themselves and others. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577541
- ISBN
- 9780230577541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.19
€ 78.19
Hardcover. Successful people and companies do two things at the same time: they are efficient day to day and they see great new opportunities. They use different styles of thinking and management to deliver cash today, and sustainable growth tomorrow. Wearing Two Hats is essential to business: but how and when to wear each one? Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 31 black & white tables, 32 figures. BIC Classification: KJC; KJD; KJK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577503
- ISBN
- 9780230577503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.13
€ 88.13
Hardcover. Motivated by a desire to improve the effectiveness of the development of strategic leaders, this book focuses on the individual charged with shaping strategy and leading change in organizations. It offers a new and insightful model of strategic leader capability, and challenges much of the received wisdom of the leader development industry. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577497
- ISBN
- 9780230577497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. The New Energy Crisis comes from the recent intrusion of climate change issues into energy economics and geopolitics. Global warming reveals that the current evolution of the world energy consumption is on an unsustainable path. This book explores economic and geopolitical tensions and reinforces ways to overcome the crisis. Editor(s): Chevalier, Jean-Marie. Num Pages: 310 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPSL; KCL; RGCP; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577398
- ISBN
- 9780230577398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.69
€ 119.69