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- Applies a concept that has previously only had significant currency in French literary theory to literature in English- ​Explores characteristic features and definitions of autofiction from a...

Avant-Garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and PoetryAuthor: David Lehardy SweetPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 13, 2018Number of Pages: 318...

This book describes and addresses the challenges faced by middle-income countries, who have sustained enough economic growth to transition out of low-income status, but who are unable to grow fast...

This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow's decades' long research on conflict management and resolution. It updates his critique of conventional and nuclear deterrence, analysis of reassurance,...

This book introduces the editors? new concept of ?Awkward Powers?. By undertaking a critical re-examination of the state of International Relations theorising on the changing nature of the global...

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last ninety years. Since the late 1960s, it has been characterized primarily by J?rgen...

This book uses historical analysis, constitutional economics, and complexity theory to furnish an account of city subsidiarity as a legal, ethical, political, and economic principle. The book...

Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist's relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has inspired Silicon Valley...

This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of "bad girls"--women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them--in television,...

This book explains why the role of corruption varies greatly between public services, between people, between national systems of governance, and between measures of corruption. More than 1.8 billion...

This book traces how the student loan system has created insurmountable student debt traps for millions of student borrowers contrary to its original purpose of promoting social mobility. Today,...

This work explores how reshaping budget rules and how they are applied presents a preferred means of public sector budgeting, rather than simply implementing fewer rules. Through enhanced approaches...

This work explores how reshaping budget rules and how they are applied presents a preferred means of public sector budgeting, rather than simply implementing fewer rules. Through enhanced approaches...

This Palgrave Pivot empirically analyzes the role of conventional and interest-free Islamic banking in the growth process of developing Islamic nations. After explaining the theoretical background of...

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component...

Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Sc?nes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La...

This book brings together a collection of essays about the untenable political status quo in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina. Since democratization in the 1990s, Bangladeshi political life has been...

This book analyses the trade relationship between Bangladesh and Japan, including foreign investments and foreign aid by Japan to Bangladesh. It emphasises how Japan may support Bangladesh in its...

This book aims to form part of the growing literature on the banking system in developing countries in its aim to show the levels of stability in the banking sector of small economies. Any banking...

This book presents empirical evidence that supports and facilitates a practical, integrated approach to how bank regulatory and selected macro-prudential tools interact with monetary policy to...

Enables readers to understand bank funding strategies currently availableProvides an overview of how the funding needs of Italian banks changed over timeOutlines how the cost of funding changed after...

Bank Funding, Financial Instruments and Decision-Making in the Banking IndustryAuthor: Santiago Carb? ValverdePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 27, 2016Number of Pages: 284...

One of the lessons learned from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9 is that minimum capital requirements are a necessary but inadequate safeguard for the stability of an intermediary. Despite the...

This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data...

This book provides a historical evaluation of banking reforms and structural changes in India over the past 25 years. Chapters cover issues in consolidation and restructuring, competition and...

This book identifies and examines the role of Baro Tumsa in clandestinely bringing together a few Oromo nationalists of diverse backgrounds from all over Oromia, the Oromo country, to establish the...

Provides a simultaneously detailed and accessible analysis of Baroque aesthetics Takes a multidisciplinary approach to this under-explored subject, opening up the topic's analysis and interpretation...

Barry Macsweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious ThingsAuthor: Luke RobertsPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Mar 29, 2017Number of Pages: 241 pagesBinding:...

This book shows that basic income is a powerful tool for realizing economic justice in our modern society. Through an interdisciplinary investigation of basic income in Korea, involving theological...

The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every...