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Blend of both neuroscience and behavioural psychology Illustrated with stories and interviews from leading industry players Practical insights from brain science to help improve business...

This book argues that Lionel Robbins's construction of the economics field's organizing cornerstone, scarcity--and all that has been derived from it from economists in Robbins's time to today--no...

Introduces the features and types of Chinese Porcelain alongside a unique history of the Porcelain Road Written by leading Chinese scholar Yan Chongnian Examines the Porcelain road as a key element...

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Batman and...

This book presents philosophy as a historical series of answers to two questions: the meaning question (what does it all mean?) and the reality question (what is real rather than illusory?)...

This book explores the end of the era of low inflation and stable price increases, known as ?he Great Moderation? and the impact this will have on monetary policy. The macroeconomic trends and...

This book offers a critical exploration of first-hand experiences of practicing climate science. It tackles the pivotal question of what, precisely, constitutes contemporary scientific practice. The...

This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and...

Only publication linking together civil-military cooperation and hybrid threats Contributions from both civilian academics and military officers Endorsed by the Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of...

This book is a primer on economics of competition law by a Commissioner based on cases of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). It presents economic theories in lucid ways while providing an in...

This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years 1950 and 2000. Providing a detailed list of Italian...

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its...

This book explores the concept of psychophysics and details the development of the ideas which made the mathematisation of desire possible. The experience of desire accompanies us all throughout...

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that 'objects conform to our cognition' from the perspective of a Copernican world-view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant's...

This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy...

Scholarship on Japan's development from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century has, perhaps quite understandably, been dominated by attention given to Japan's emergence as a world...

A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro After 1889: Glorious DecadenceAuthor: Tom WinterbottomPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 09, 2016Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

This book reports the outcomes of a research project which involved developing and implementing a research-informed curriculum for low-attaining further education students. Key aims of the curriculum...

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch. It brings together a diverse range of authors, disciplinary approaches and topics, to reckon with the events that...

This book explores China's hukou system, by which individuals are registered in a specific geographic region, and the prospects for reform. The history of the hukou system and its instrumental role...

This book introduces the first systematic and unified four-dimension democratic approach to newspaper religion reporting. It explores the coverage of faith, with a particular focus on Christianity...

This book puts forward a layered theory of emotions, which argues that emotional processes are best understood as occurrences that happen within complex emotional situational scenarios that integrate...

Written by the former Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus who was in office during the financial crisis Interdisciplinary, drawing on issues in economics, banking, regulation, governance, history,...

Providing insight into the currently applied models, basic definitions and functions of work discipline systems within organisations, this book analyses the risks, limitations and the potential of...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book takes a taxpayer's perspective on the relations taxation creates between people and their state. Bj?rklund Larsen proposes that in order...

Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores...

This book presents oral histories from the last surviving UK veterans of the Korean War. With the help of the UK National Army Museum and the British Korean Society, this book collects nearly twenty...

This book journeys through human history, beginning with the tribal age and ending with an option for what's to come after the knowledge age. It examines the profound influence that culture,...

In this book, Dr Cole Hendrigan examines the options for sustainable transport and land-use planning based on building heights, mixes of land-use, transportation mode capacity and others to build the...

This book is the first to directly address Asia's new rich with an easy-to-follow guide to investment and the world of global finance. There are currently approximately 15 million high net worth...