The public relations handbook

The Public Relations Handbook is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theories and practices of the public relations industry. It traces the history and development of public relations, explores ethical issues which affect the industry, examines its relationships with politics, lobbying organisations and journalism ...

The Common Fisheries Policy in the European Union

a study in integrative and distributive bargaining

This book links theoretical studies to empirical evidence and constitutes a comprehensive appreciation of bargaining by comparing integrative and distributive bargaining in the context of the European fisheries policy. Contents: Introduction: Analyzing Negotiations in the European Union 1. The Settlement of the Common Fisheries Policy ...

Environmental policy in Europe

the europeanization of national environmental policy

The political economy of european integration

theory and analysis

This book provides an accessible introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration. It presents a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration.

The modern state

National electronic government

comparing governance structures in multi-layer administrations

Congress online

cridging the gap betweeen citizens and their representatives

International marketing

analysis and strategy

The 4th edition of International Marketing has been written to enable managers and scholars to meet the international challenges they face everyday. It provides the solid foundation required to understand the complexities of marketing on a global scale. The book has been fully updated with ...

Entrepreneurship

a new perspective

Telecommunications strategy

cases, theories and applications

The telecommunications industry is one of the most influential and significant global industries. As well as being fundamentally important to the health of the modern economy, it is going through a period of unprecedented change, facing a range of strategic challenges from globalization and cross-border ...

Evidence-based medicine

in its place

Friedrich A. von Hayek

.2nd series

Heyek's reputation has gone through a remarkable cycle. An eminent exponent of the Austrian theory of business cycles in the 1930s, he was worsted in the controversy over Keynes' Treatise onMoney (1930). Following this defeat, Hayek retreated into capital theory, an esoteric branch of ...

Advanced mathematical economics

This concise textbook presents students with all they need for advancing in mathematical economics. Higher level undergraduates as well as postgraduate students in mathematical economics will find this book extremely useful in the course of their development as economists. Contents: 1. Things to Know 2 ...

Local industrial clusters

existence, emergence, and evolution

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common -specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both econimsts and geographers.

Cities and natural process

a basis for sustainability

Cities and Natural Process is a discussion of the fundamental conflict in the perception of nature and an expression of the essential need for an environmental view when approaching urban design. Whilst retaining the existing structure, each of the chapters has been revised to take ...

Planning for sustainability

creating livable, equitable, and ecological communities

Representing the environment

Few developments in 20th century thought owe more to the power of the written and visual image than the environmental movement. Depictions of spoiled landscapes, trees dying from the effects of acid rain, seabirds coated in oil after tanker accidents and other, similarly emotive representations ...

British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

the British Batallion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939

This book is a new study of the British Battalion of the 15th International Brigade in the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939. In contrast to recent revisionist interpretations, this work stresses the crucial importance of the war experience itself, rather than political ideology, in the ...

Tourism mobilities

places to play, places in play

Globalization and the nation state

the impact of the IMF and the World Bank

CONTENTS: 1. Whither Conditionality 2. The International and Domestic Politics of IFI Programs 3. Possible Reforms of the IFIs 4. Reflections on the International Infrastructure.

Youth media

A theory of ecological justice

In A Theory of Ecological Justice, Baxter argues for ecological justice - that is, for treating species besides homo sapiens as having a claim in justice to a share of the Earth's resources. It explores the nature of justice claims as applied to organisms of ...