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There is little doubt that corporate governance has become one of the key issues for students of business and management in the 1990s. This book is the first to draw together the various strands of the debate from the economics, finance, and accounting perspectives, and from an international angle that includes discussion of the issues as they relate to governance in the UK, USA, Germany, Japan, and Eastern Europe.

Geoffrey Best traces the recent history of efforts to limit the violence and ugliness of war. He shows how the Second World War provided the impetus for reconstruction of international law, and charts its relationship with war since then, critically surveying the whole range of contemporary armed conflicts from civil to high-tech international wars. This book offers an original and thought-provoking approach to contemporary history, law, polit...

Barbara Caine offers the first complete overview of the history of "modern" English feminism, from the French Revolution through to the advent of Women's Liberation. Her analysis of feminist organizations, debates, and campaigns shows a keen sense of the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and wider social and cultural change. The result is a fascinating study with a new perspective on feminists and feminist traditions which sho...

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One of the most fierce and wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last twenty years has concerned the theory that throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a period of crisis so pervasive, significant and intense that it could be labelled a 'General Crisis'. A number of articles stimulated by the debate were collected and published in a book entitled Crisis in Europe, edited by Trevor Aston.This volume takes the still acrim...

Kyeyoung Park is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Simple but enjoyable activities based on the material in the Student Books Effective learning tools in the classroom or at home The course provides a simple but steady development of new language through a carefully graded syllabus with built-in review. The characters, themes, and situations are relevant and appealing to very young children. Each Student Book unit opens with the main characters featured storybook style in a familiar daily situ...

Describes how a group of white female student teachers examined their "whiteness" and developed ways of thinking critically about race and racism in educational practice. Mclntyre describes how a group of white middle- and upper-middle-class female student teachers examined their "whiteness" and how they, as current and future educators, might develop teaching strategies that aim to disrupt and eliminate the oppressiveness of white privilege i...

One of the founders of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and its first president, Dickinson was a central figure during the First Great Awakening and one of the leading lights of colonial religious life. In this first-ever biography of the man, Bryan Le Beau examines Dickinson's writings and actions, showing him to have been a driving force in forming the American Presbyterian Church. Dickinson accommodated diverse tradition...

In this second edition of Privatization, Regulation and Deregulation, the author has updated and augmented the original material to take account of developments over the last 5 years. This volume includes ten completely new chapters and coverage of the critical period from 1981to the present. The book provides a unique insight into the privatization and regulatory procedure. In addition, it presents a significant contribution to the basic econ...

In this book Chris Barker situates television as a cultural phenomenon in the context of global modernity.The first text to bring together in a single volume the arguments and evidence in the field The first genuine introduction to this topic The author is adept at providing the reader with useful summaries and evaluations of the key arguments and points

This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on pattern...

This volume draws attention to the plight of urban blacks in the contemporary world and links their situation across five key global regions. It argues that while the world's population is predominantly urban, persons of African descent are disproportionately urbanized and impoverished, and it shows how significant changes in the global arena, among them new information technology, the increased hegemony of market structures, and the resulting...

Presents, in an immensely readable yet profoundly scholarly account, the history of German literature from the Reformation and Renaissance to the late twentieth century, in the wider context of Germanic culture, over the whole German-speaking area of Europe.

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Huggett presents an introductory exploration of past, present and future change in the environment . Exploring rates and directions of change, introduces the interdependent parts of the natural environment.

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Satya P. Mohanty teaches in the Department of English at Cornell University.

The rhythmic vitality and lyric beauty of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony and his last symphonic creation appear in full score in a portable, inexpensive, high-quality edition. Ideal for students and concert-goers.

This collection of essays boldly addresses many of the challenges faced by Christian theology in the context of contemporary postmodern thought. Handling abstract topics in a remarkably clear and concise way, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen presses the case for a "postfoundationalist theology" as a viable third option beyond the extremes of foundationalism and nonfoundationalism. Van Huyssteen discusses themes related to rationality, epistemology, an...