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Constraints and Driving Forces in Economic Systems
Studies in Honour of János Kornai
The various contributions to this volume have as their central point the forces driving development and the constraints hindering progress in a variety of economic systems and subsystems.
The various contributions to this volume have as their central point the forces driving development and the constraints hindering progress in a variety of economic systems and subsystems.
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Emerging Services Sector and Inclusiveness
Evidence from India
India’s services sector drives GDP and exports, but its failure to create jobs questions its inclusive growth. This book analyzes the sector's role in the Indian economy, examining key issues like employment, trade, and foreign direct investment.
India’s services sector drives GDP and exports, but its failure to create jobs questions its inclusive growth. This book analyzes the sector’s role in the Indian economy, examining key issues like employment, trade, and foreign direct investment.
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Reading Penguin
A Critical Anthology
Penguin Books democratised reading, becoming the most important British publisher of the 20th century. In these essays, scholars examine Penguin's significance, from breaking the Lady Chatterley ban to the iconic art of its covers.
Penguin Books democratised reading, becoming the most important British publisher of the 20th century. In these essays, scholars examine Penguin’s significance, from breaking the Lady Chatterley ban to the iconic art of its covers.
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Gender Power and Mediation
Evaluative Mediation to Challenge the Power of Social Discourses
This book shows how evaluative mediation, rooted in Eastern practices, can provide fair justice for women facing gendered power disparity and family violence. Using verbatim quotes from real sessions, it demonstrates how theories are operationalised in real life.
This book shows how evaluative mediation, rooted in Eastern practices, can provide fair justice for women facing gendered power disparity and family violence. Using verbatim quotes from real sessions, it demonstrates how theories are operationalised in real life.
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Digging the Seam
Popular Cultures of the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike
The 1984–5 Miners’ Strike was a bitter dispute that divided Britain. While its political consequences have been subject to detailed analysis, its impact on popular culture is less mapped. This book explores that legacy in film, music, theatre, and art.
The 1984–5 Miners’ Strike was a bitter dispute that divided Britain. While its political consequences have been subject to detailed analysis, its impact on popular culture is less mapped. This book explores that legacy in film, music, theatre, and art.
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‘Just’ a Fisherman’s Wife
A Post Structural Feminist Exposé of Australian Commercial Fishing Women’s Contributions and Knowledge, ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Crisis’
This book is a unique exposé of women in Australia’s commercial fishing industry. It explores their contributions, barriers, and knowledge in a sector facing crisis, aiming to reduce their marginalisation and enhance industry sustainability.
This book is a unique exposé of women in Australia’s commercial fishing industry. It explores their contributions, barriers, and knowledge in a sector facing crisis, aiming to reduce their marginalisation and enhance industry sustainability.
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This book addresses various aspects of tourist behaviour, from need-recognition to post-consumption. Supported by practical examples from a range of countries, it is very useful for updating your knowledge or carrying out further research in this field.
This book addresses various aspects of tourist behaviour, from need-recognition to post-consumption. Supported by practical examples from a range of countries, it is very useful for updating your knowledge or carrying out further research in this field.
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Across the global South, urban space triggers social conflict but also creates new possibilities for activism. These cross-disciplinary essays explore the complex relationship between planning, politics, and power, asking a central question: are cities to be tamed?
Across the global South, urban space triggers social conflict but also creates new possibilities for activism. These cross-disciplinary essays explore the complex relationship between planning, politics, and power, asking a central question: are cities to be tamed?
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Who owns commingled securities? This book tackles property rights uncertainty under English law, showing how trusts can secure title and arguing for a careful shift in legal priority to protect good faith purchasers.
Who owns commingled securities? This book tackles property rights uncertainty under English law, showing how trusts can secure title and arguing for a careful shift in legal priority to protect good faith purchasers.
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Watching Pages, Reading Pictures
Cinema and Modern Literature in Italy
While Italian cinema is known for Neo-Realism and Spaghetti Westerns, its crucial affair with literature is less familiar. This book explores this fruitful relationship through discussions of significant film adaptations that exemplify this alliance's variety.
While Italian cinema is known for Neo-Realism and Spaghetti Westerns, its crucial affair with literature is less familiar. This book explores this fruitful relationship through discussions of significant film adaptations that exemplify this alliance’s variety.
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Public Space in Informal Settlements
The Barrios of Bogotá
This book views Bogotá's informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios' social dynamics. An insider's perspective.
This book views Bogotá’s informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios’ social dynamics. An insider’s perspective.
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Judicial Activism in Bangladesh
A Golden Mean Approach
This book reframes judicial activism as a balance between over-assertion and passivity. With particular reference to Bangladesh, it reveals judicial under-activism and argues that pragmatic intervention is critical for good governance and social justice.
This book reframes judicial activism as a balance between over-assertion and passivity. With particular reference to Bangladesh, it reveals judicial under-activism and argues that pragmatic intervention is critical for good governance and social justice.
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A refreshing analysis of Europe’s lost decade and a major contribution to understanding the Euro-zone crisis. With contrasting perspectives from academics and practitioners, it is a must read for anyone interested in the political economy of crisis and reform in Europe.
A refreshing analysis of Europe’s lost decade and a major contribution to understanding the Euro-zone crisis. With contrasting perspectives from academics and practitioners, it is a must read for anyone interested in the political economy of crisis and reform in Europe.
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Mothers of Innovation
How Expanding Social Networks Gave Birth to the Industrial Revolution
What sparks innovation? This book reveals why property rights and resources were not enough to ignite the Industrial Revolution. The surprising key was expanding social networks, which fostered cooperation and integrated unrelated concepts to create something new.
What sparks innovation? This book reveals why property rights and resources were not enough to ignite the Industrial Revolution. The surprising key was expanding social networks, which fostered cooperation and integrated unrelated concepts to create something new.
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Tools of Their Tools
Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice
This book explores communication technologies in American culture over 150 years. How has American society molded these technologies? How have they, in turn, shaped American history? Are we still, in the words of Thoreau, "tools of their tools"?
This book explores communication technologies in American culture over 150 years. How has American society molded these technologies? How have they, in turn, shaped American history? Are we still, in the words of Thoreau, “tools of their tools”?
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Arbitration Awards
Generic Features and Textual Realisations
Is international arbitration being contaminated by litigation, compromising its core principles? This book investigates this hypothesis by analyzing the language of international arbitration awards to identify elements that may provide evidence for this trend.
Is international arbitration being contaminated by litigation, compromising its core principles? This book investigates this hypothesis by analyzing the language of international arbitration awards to identify elements that may provide evidence for this trend.
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Culture of Tobacco
An Ethnographic Enquiry into the Socio-Economic Mobility of Dalits of Rural India
This book explores the impact of tobacco cultivation on rural Andhra Pradesh. A comparative study of two villages reveals how this labor-intensive crop creates prosperity and changes social relationships, prompting a re-examination of agricultural policy.
This book explores the impact of tobacco cultivation on rural Andhra Pradesh. A comparative study of two villages reveals how this labor-intensive crop creates prosperity and changes social relationships, prompting a re-examination of agricultural policy.
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This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.
This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.
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Using 12 years of research on the US textile industry and the apparel industry in the Latin American and Caribbean regions, Jackson argues that regulated trade agreements allow certain less globally competitive industries to become highly competitive in specific markets.
Using 12 years of research on the US textile industry and the apparel industry in the Latin American and Caribbean regions, Jackson argues that regulated trade agreements allow certain less globally competitive industries to become highly competitive in specific markets.
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Power and Communication
Media, Politics and Institutions in Times of Crisis
This book explores the relationship between power and the media in Western societies. The media exercise symbolic force, but are also subject to political and economic influence. This relationship is paradoxically as strict as it is opaque.
This book explores the relationship between power and the media in Western societies. The media exercise symbolic force, but are also subject to political and economic influence. This relationship is paradoxically as strict as it is opaque.
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