As traditional journalism collapses, this ground-breaking textbook provides a new path. It presents a narrative-free, experimental model using verified facts to show how the world interconnects. Through unique exercises, you will see reality and truth in a whole new light.
This collection of essays highlights the most pressing research topics in infocommunication technologies, including next generation networks, innovative knowledge-based systems, and innovations in healthcare and eHealth.
Contested Tourism Commodities
This book explores tourism’s contested niches, from slum tourism to trophy hunting. It traces how marginal pursuits explode into the mainstream, causing controversy as they are commodified, packaged, and sold while the lines between acceptance and outrage blur.
This collection of essays examines the contemporary crisis facing human rights. Bringing together academics and practitioners, it links austerity and the rise of the far-right to a crucial question: are human rights rights at all?
The Competitive Challenge of Emerging Markets
The rise of emerging economies like China and India has created a disruptive competitive challenge. This book examines their distinctive characteristics, the challenges of doing business, and the threat of emerging market multinationals as they aspire to surpass their rivals.
This book provides the essential mathematical tools for economics majors transitioning to upper-level courses. It emphasizes intuition over technical proofs, drawing on familiar examples from introductory economics to explain immediately useful concepts.
International sales have been ruled by conflicting English and Civil Law. This book shows how the Vienna Convention (CISG) harmonised these differences, blending civil law codification with common law institutions to bring vital certitude and sophistication to global commerce.
Tea in Australia
Before 1950, Australians were the world’s highest per capita tea consumers. This book tells the story of how tea became the national beverage, exploring its trade, marketing, and the evolution of social rituals like afternoon tea. The first comprehensive account of its kind.
The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare
Our health is a reflection of our society. This book exposes how biased markets and dismantled social protections create deep health inequalities. It makes a powerful case for social medicine—a collective cure for an unequal world.
A Philosophical Look at Keynes and Hayek
This book examines the crossing between philosophy, semiotics, and economics. Reconsidering the contributions of Keynes and Hayek through the semiotic approach of Charles S. Peirce, it creates new conceptual frameworks to rethink the paths to complexity in our world.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is often blamed for worsening the Great Depression. This book presents an alternative view, arguing the Act was the Republican Party’s attempt to close an output gap caused by a new power technology: electric unit drive (EUD).
This book focuses on consumer financing in China, introducing the financing situation, constraints, representative tools, and the Credit Reference System. It is an indispensable guide for financial companies and academic institutions wishing to make more sense of this topic.
This book argues that to achieve sustainable development, developing countries must revamp their financial systems. The failure to grow is often caused by investors’ inability to access capital. Modernizing financial sectors can make resources available and industrialize growth.
East vs. West
This book explores international development, contrasting Eastern and Western experiences. It examines China’s economic rise and India’s architectural journey to show how innovation influences our lives, offering clarity on the directions still to be taken.
Integrated Marketing Communication
A valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners of integrated marketing communication (IMC). It details the principles and practices of IMC before presenting a step-by-step process for preparing and executing a plan for any given brand.
This readable, non-technical collection offers a comprehensive guide to international economics and macroeconomics. Explore pressing topics from Industry 4.0 and immigration to productivity and monetary policy.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a tool for poverty reduction, but attracting it is not the end. This book argues a nation’s absorption capacity is paramount, exploring the ‘Vicious-Circle of Poverty’ and providing new frameworks for plausible poverty reduction approaches.
The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Was Not a Bubble
After the 1929 crash, Yale Professor Irving Fisher argued the boom was warranted. While his view was dismissed in favor of “irrational exuberance,” this book shows why Fisher was right, pointing to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff as the cause of both the boom and the crash.
Healthcare Facilities in Developing Countries
This book is an in-depth investigation of healthcare facilities in Mau district, India. Based on a survey of 680 households, it analyzes variations in their availability, accessibility, and affordability, and the link between socio-economic status and utilization patterns.
The Efficiency and Productivity of Indian Pharmaceutical Companies
This book evaluates the Indian pharmaceutical industry, highlighting the government’s role in its growth from non-existence before the 1970s to one of the largest in the world. It provides an understanding of productivity and efficiency for health administrators and economists.