132 products in Business & Investing

Critiques the assumptions of orthodox HRD research and practice and questions the conception of humans as resources. Examining the broader social, political and economic contexts, this book offers alternative perspectives for considering

This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made

This book analyzes contemporary financial accounting. In doing so it provides a user-oriented guide to the salient issues which affect all aspects of financial accounting. Written by a former Secretary General of

Taxation in Modern China is concerned with tax and public financial issues arising in China's economic transition. The contributors, among the leading authorities on public finance, transitional economics and policy reform in

Reluctant Capitalists examines Russia's plodding, sometimes painful, journey toward a free-market. Through case studies, interviews and first-hand observation, Randall tells us of Russia's economic troubles and offers suggestions for making market reform

A ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union, examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms, which formulates the most fully developed economic theory of communism now available.

The only book that described the origins and rise of myth-and-ritual literary criticism.

This work argues that Modern novelists deployed the figure of the dying man to examine the trauma of cultural change and the crisis of masculinity during the transition period.

Explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by medicalizing its environment, a way of solving social problems by treating them as medical problems. This work generates an understanding of

In this book Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: the doctrine of eternal return.

The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental

Examines how verbal and visual images produce meaning, exploring advertisements for cigarettes, alcohol, and cosmetics.

A clear and up-to-date guide to the UK tax system for surveyors and valuers which demonstrates land valuation for taxation purposes.

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading researchers and practising engineers in the field of silos and containment structures, and is derived from a specially invited colloquium on the

This work explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on the interactions among technological, economic and geographic factors. It examines

This book interrogates the Confucian capitalism thesis which dominates the approach to Chinese business behaviour in management and social sciences.

This volume discusses the causes of economic achievement in the leading East Asian countries in relation to the Porter thesis which links economic success with the capabilities of indigenous industrial clusters.

This study presents the economic system of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Social Market Economy. Its aim is to describe the elements of this system that ensure its openness, dynamism, efficiency,