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The press effect

politicians, journalists, and the stories that shape the political world

Was the 2000 presidential campaign merely a contest between Pinocchio and Dumbo? And did Dumbo miraculously turn into Abraham Lincoln after the events of September 11? In fact, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman argue in The Press Effect, these stereotypes, while containing some elements ...

Patrons, clients, and empire

chieftaincy and over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

This is a wide-ranging comparative study of relationships between the indigenous leadership of traditional states and colonizing Europeans from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It challenges stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies and seeks to answer the fundamental question ...

Fifty years of prosopography

the Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and beyond

France

the dark years, 1940-1944

This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews, intellectual and cultural life under Occupation, and the purge ...

The structure and dynamics of geographic ranges

In the grip of disease

studies in the Greek imagination

This original and lively book uses texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion to explore the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues are deeply implicated: causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, the mind-body relationship ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume V/II: Organization and mobilization in the German sphere of power. Wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources 1942-1944/5

From the outbreak of war to the end of 1941, Germany was riding high over much of Europe; then it all began to go wrong. Volume V Part II of the comprehensive and authoritative Germany and the Second World War series spans the years 1942 ...

The Law of set-off

Human rights, human wrongs

Controlling market power in telecommunicications

antitrust vs sector-specific regulation

Economic regulation in the telecommunications sector can be performed through economy-wide instruments, such as antitrust law and antitrust authorities, or through sector-specific instruments, such as telecommunications regulation and regulatory authorities. Relying on a comparative analysis of five countries, the present book seeks to shed some ...

Russian Law

This book provides the most comprehensive account in any language of modern Russian law, updated to encompass the entire sweep of market-oriented law reform. The second edition of this authoritative work will be embraced by practitioners, investors, law students, the comparative and international law markets ...

Capital markets and Company Law

This book investigates the relationship between company law, securities markets and securities regulation. The purpose of this investigation is to try and determine whether listed companies should be treated differently by company law from other companies. The issues here raise questions about corporate governance, the ...

The Oxford handbook of strategy

The Oxford Handbook of Strategy is a two-volume set on the key subject areas and issues currently under discussion in the field of strategy. It unites an international team of contributors who are all recognised authorities on the topic of their chapter. The Handbook will ...

Law and informal practices

the post-communist experience

The idea of property

its meaning and power

Civil code of the russian federation

Parts One, Two and Three.

This volume provides a complete and authoritative English translation of Parts I, II, and III of the Russian Civil Code, which entered into force in complete form in March 2002. The Civil Code is the central document of market reforms in Russia, dealing with the ...

Courts-Martial, discipline, and the criminal process in the armed services

Family Law

Law and geography

Governing work and welfare in a new economy

European and American experiments

Part 1: Experimenting with the Work-Welfare Nexus: The European Union 2 David M. Trubek and James Mosher: New Governance, Employment Policy, and the European Social Model 3 Janine Goetschy: The European Employment Strategy, Multi-level Governance, and Policy Coordination 4 Maurizio Ferrera and Anton Hermerijck: Recalibrating ...