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This PalgravePivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as participating in some of the major current upheavals in their particular national contexts.

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By using information collected from numerous American Economic Review publications from the last 100 years, Torgler and Piatti examine the top publishing institutions to determine their most renowned AER papers based on citation success.

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Intended for undergraduate and equivalent students of building, building surveying, construction economics and quantity surveying, this book gives an explanation of accounting terminology, concepts, practices and procedures. The book is divided into two parts.

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...a valuable contribution to the education of the surveying profession and fills a gap in the market. It will prove invaluable to part-time or external students who do no have the benefit of regular face-to-face contact with teaching staff.' Nick French, Journal of Property Valuation & Investment

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This book provides an historical analysis of postwar economic development in the United States. Samuel Rosenberg investigates three postwar phases: the creation of an institutional framework setting the stage for prosperity in the U.S. after World War II.

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American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of sociology and the decline of the science ideal as well as the challenges sociology faces in the new environment for universities.

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An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology.

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This book offers an introduction to the design of small embedded systems. Topics covered include microcontroller architectures, memory technologies, data conversion, serial protocols, program design, low power design, and design for the real time environment.

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Applying Social Psychology uses significant social themes (including work, education, health, sport, conflict, communication, economic life, crime, the environment ) to illustrate how multiple perspectives can work together in helping understand the complexities of real life issues.

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This text provides coverage of the topics taught in Business Economics courses on Economics and Business Studies degrees and MBA programmes.

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This book develops a groundbreaking, novel approach to examining ethical consumer behaviour from the perspective of evolutionary theory, illustrating the deeply rooted potentials and limits within society for reducing environmental harm.

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Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, British proconsuls, civil servants and even the monarch George V, as well as Indian nationalists, interacted with the media, primarily British and American, and with what consequences.

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This book explores which kind of competitive moves and countermoves have been taken by mobile phone vendors like Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Apple, as well as emerging rivals from developing countries, to defend their competitive position over the industry life cycle, and which factors have driven these actions.

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This book addresses themulti-facet competitiveness of firms in China from an angle of strategic management of technology and innovation. The Chinese vanguard companies have beenexcellent in identifying strategic position and appropriately making strategic decisions, and effectively making strategy in action.

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Constituent power of the people is a core concept of modern politics but what does this concept actually mean This book addresses this question, sketching how constituent power of the people has been conceived since the early modern revolutions.

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With frequent discoveries of energy resources in remote and undeveloped areas, the importance of transnational oil and gas pipelines is set to grow ever more prominent. This study dissects the diplomacy and bargaining power of the transit country and the shifting economic relations involved in cross-border energy transportation.

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This text contains description and analysis of the Financial Services environment, while focusing particularly upon recent developments and current issues.

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This edition takes into account developments since the first edition, which was published in 1985. It contains 9 essays by leading experts from around the world in the field of International Trade and looks at both the theoretical and policy issues of the subject.

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This book reviews developments taking place in public sector economics, with topics covering issues in both public expenditure and taxation. Trends in public spending, and their determinants, are reviewed along with recent developments in the public choice perspective and the analysis of the demand for public goods.

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This text deals with topics that are at the core of microeconomic theory - the economics of uncertainty and the economics of games and decisions. It contains a chapter on non-expected utility theory and up-to-date coverage of risk aversion, stochastic dominance and mean-variance utility theory.

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This text deals with topics that are at the core of microeconomic theory - the economics of uncertainty and the economics of games and decisions. It contains a chapter on non-expected utility theory and up-to-date coverage of risk aversion, stochastic dominance and mean-variance utility theory.

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This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical argumentation. Neagu's empirical investigation centres on the corpus of the American Presidential debates in 2008 and speeches by Barack Obama from 2009-2011.

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Democratic government is something that has eluded Iran despite a series of non-violent revolutions aimed at establishing a system of governance that would promote both public freedom and political accountability. This explores the obstacles to the growth of democracy in Iran and posits a plan for non-violent action to help Iranians achieve it.