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A Sea Change: The Exclusive Economic Zone and Governance Institutions for Living Marine Resources

A Sea Change in a Changing Sea The oceans, seas and coastal areas encompass over 70% of the earth’s surface. They are a ...

A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania

The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...

Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

This book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s ...

Agent Technology and e-Health

Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. This book reports on the results ...

Banking for Family Business

Hints of globalization have actually been around for several decades, even though they made only a modest impact; however, ...

Banks and Shareholder Value

In the German banking sector, management is continually increasing its focus on shareholder interests. This can be seen in ...

Building the Foundation: Whole Numbers in the Primary Grades

This twenty-third ICMI Study addresses for the first time mathematics teaching and learning in the primary school (and pre-school) ...

Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe

This book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects ...

Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications / Neil C. Schofield

The second edition includes discussions of critical new topics like dual curve swap valuation, option valuation within a ...

Communicative Figurations

This open access volume is about how to research the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one ...

Comparative Environmental Politics

The book explores five major topics: state-society relations; environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs); Green ...

Constitutionalism and Legal Reasoning

This book of legal philosophy contends that positive law is better understood if it is not too easily equated with power, ...

Contemporary Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance : An Academic and Policy Lens on the Status-Quo, Challenges and Trends / Alexandra Moritz, Joern H. Block, Stephan Golla, Arndt Werner

Provides a contemporary research-based overview of the latest trends in entrepreneurial finance and outlines expected future ...

Contemporary Sociological Theory : An Integrated Multi-Level Approach

This book covers the major theoretical orientations that have been influential in American sociology since the mid-twentieth ...

Cross-border Governance and Sustainable Spatial Development : Mind the Gaps!

Border regions in Central Europe undergo tremendous changes due to the enlargement of the European Union and the related ...

Democratization of Expertise?

Scientific knowledge and the ‘experts’ that represent it no longer command the unquestioned authority and public trust ...

Digital Economy and Social Design

The advent of the digital economy has the potential to dramatically change the conventional interrelationships among individuals, ...

EU-Turkey Relations Theories, Institutions, and Policies

This book explores the new complexities and ambiguities that epitomize EU-Turkey relations. With a strong focus on the developments ...

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

This book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates ...

Equity Ownership and Performance : An Empirical Study of German Traded Companies

The empirical studies presented in this book model the endogeneity by applying the simultaneous equations methodology on ...

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