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Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. They are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital they need to operate...

This textbook begins by introducing the concept of the time value of money and explaining how it is applied in valuation. It then uses practical and easy-to-understand examples to illustrate the...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive geographic and chronological overview of the decentralisation processes in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their...

This open access edited book connects two strands of federal studies, fiscal federalism, and diversity accommodation, to answer two closely interrelated questions. The first of these is to what...

This book examines how macro-fiscal policy can lead to gender-aware human development in an emerging economy like India, with special reference to gender budgeting. Integrating gender lens in...

This book advances an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of flagship universities in Africa - the largest, most selective, and most prestigious universities on the continent. The book draws on a range...

Food Advertising: Nature, Impact and RegulationAuthor: Barrie GunterPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Nov 17, 2016Number of Pages: 303 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the 'analysis of government', the study accounts for the emergence and...

- Examines the tight association between food and the autobiographical impulse- Examines the performative capability of autobiography- Reviews the genre of masculine food autobiographies from the...

This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country?s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer...

Food Economics provides a unified introduction to the economics of agricultural production, business decisions, consumer behavior, and the government policies that shape our food system. This...

This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and cannibalism. It...

Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy: Production and ConsumptionAuthor: Kim SalmonsPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 08, 2017Number of Pages: 133 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Rachael was just six years old when she had her first suicidal thought. Over the next decade, life would become increasingly fraught with depression and self-harm. And yet amidst this darkness, a...

Food Parcels in International Migration: Intimate ConnectionsAuthor: Diana Mata-CodesalPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 24, 2017Number of Pages: 223 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book examines food resistance movements as a form of alternative food network, charting the author?s journey as a cultural anthropologist through three food resistance movements. In Australia,...

Food Security and Sustainability: Investment and Financing Along Agro-Food ChainsAuthor: George MergosPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 15, 2016Number of Pages: 268 pagesBinding:...

This book aims at providing students, experts and practitioners with a detailed overview of agricultural and food security issues in China, analyzed through the lenses of a multidisciplinary approach...

Building and expanding on the first edition, the second edition of Food, National Identity and Nationalism continues to explore a much-neglected area study: the relationship between food and...

This book provides comparative, multi-disciplinary research on the surplus food distribution in Europe and its relation to food poverty, with a focus on the interaction of for-profit and non-profit...

Analyses the convergence and differences between fan culture and representation in a variety of European countriesConsiders football supporters as something more and other than hooligans or...

This book uncovers the elusive phenomenon of football fan identities by using a combination of comparative analysis and triangulation of data obtained through discourse analysis of online message...

This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbah?e and...

Football Fandom in Europe and Latin America: Culture, Politics, and Violence in the 21st CenturyAuthor: Bernardo Buarque de HollandaPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 26, 2024Number...

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments...

Forbidden Football in Ceausescu's RomaniaAuthor: L?szl? P?terPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Feb 20, 2018Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues,...

This book is designed to fulfill a long felt need for a wide ranging empirical research on foreign capital-growth nexus. It presents an analysis of disaggregated flows of foreign capital and their...

This book examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Central and Eastern Europe have changed after the Great Recession. It argues that beyond their cyclical effects, the economic crisis...

Offers a thorough analysis of the scientific advances in FPAFeatures an eclectic panorama of different conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to FPAIdentifies emerging theoretical...