A Choice Best Academic book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication, and still follows the original organization ... more »

This is a book for the Single European Market and for the real estate professionals operating within it. The real estate industry is europeanising rapidly in anticipation of the SEM, with potentially even greater European integration under the provisions of the Maastricht Treaty of European Union. more »

Contemporary globalization has transformed and undermined the role of the nation-state, causing it to lose its grip on both the national economy and identity. Mastering Globalization looks at the debates arising from this phenomenon and explores how governments - national, regional, local, global city ... more »

Flexibility and Lifelong Learning have become key aspects of education policy in nation states and bodies such as the European Union and Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development in recent years. They are positioned as necessary for the knowledge economy and social inclusion. The failure to ... more »

This book asks whether foreign aid can help post-communist societies to steer their technological innovation systems in more environmentally sound directions. It examines the legacy of Soviet-type innovation systems, then looks at opportunities for greener innovations in post-communist Poland. more »

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Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalized itself, and created a ... more »

Throughout the 1990s, pictures of Albanian youngsters studying in makeshift classrooms became a symbol of Serbian state repression in Kosovo. The establishment of so-called parallel education in private houses and businesses in Kosovo became part of Albanian resistance to Serbian rule and an important ... more »

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Richard Cantillon, who wrote fifty years before Adam Smith, was the first economist to see the economy as an interrelated whole and the first to give a coherent account of how it works. His only surviving work, the Essai sur la nature du commerce en general, was an astonishing achievement, although it ... more »

Debating the relationship between business and environment, and where this relationship is heading, this book gives voice to the industrial actors in context within industrial sectors or as part of wider institution regimes. more »

Spanning a wide array of topics relating to the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease, this reference collects the latest studies and recommendations from a team of 75 leading authorities on the subject-including the management of subarachnoid hemorrhage, the treatment of acute ischemic ... more »