Economic policy in the European Union

The occult in medieval Europe 500-1500

a documentary history

The medieval period is often seen as an age of superstition. This study challenges this assumption, offering students a varied collection of documents - many of which appear in English for the first time - surveying what people throughout Europe actually thought and believed about the occult ...

Palgrave advances in Renaissance historiography

Financial lexicon

a compendium of financial definitions, acronyms, and colloquialisms

Financial Lexicon is intended as a comprehensive financial reference book that explains the formal and informal terminology of finance. Structured as a dictionary, the book will contain clear and detailed explanations of common banking, finance and investment terms. Unlike other textbooks, which focus solely on ...

The history of México

Dictionary of women's biography

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to TV chefs, engineers to stand up comics, pilots to poisoners. With subsections for further reading, comprehensive subject ...

Contesting empires

opposition, promotion and slavery

Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery ...

Islam obscured

the rhetoric of anthropological representation

Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz in 1968) and Muslim Society (by Ernest ...

The nature of evil

The Vietnam war

Capabilities for strategic advantage

leading through technological innovation

In a competitive environment rivals will quickly respond to changes and improvements. This new contribution demonstrates that companies need to have a methodology for developing strategy with regard to future technology. New technology needs to be integrated into a strategic process and companies who are ...

The Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005

efficiency in an increasingly connected world

Innovation management

strategy and implementation using the pentathlon framework

Designed primarily for students on MBA and executive education courses, this practical text introduces a new 'pentathlon' framework for discussing the key issues in managing innovation. Presenting key theoretical findings and showcasing best practice from successful organizations through more than sixty international case examples, the ...

Exchange rate regimes

fixed, flexible or something in between?

International human resource management

theory and practice

International Human Resource Management is a core text for undergraduate, specialist Master's and MBA students taking a module in international or comparative human resource management. It provides and introduction to both the theory and practice of managing HR in an international context. It discusses ...

The Palgrave concise historical atlas of the first World War

Palgrave advances in Byzantine history

The black death

the great mortality of 1348-1350: a brief history with documents

Psychology, rationality and economic behaviour

challenging standard assumptions

Economic forecasting

Improving international competition order

an institutional approach

This book offers guidelines for the upcoming discussions on reform, representing an attempt to work out conceptions for a better international competition order on the basis of the scientific approach 'law and economics'. It presents the dominant concepts of competition policy as a basis for ...

Transnational corporations and economic development

from internationalization to globalization

This volume investigates the specific role of transnational corporations in the process of globalisation and economic development. While it draws on a long history of academic research, it also shows new ways forward. It makes headway both in conceptual as well as empirical terms. Topics ...