Economics lab

an intensive course in experimental economics

Laboratory experiments with human subjects now provide crucial data in most fields of economics. There has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in this relatively new field of economics. This textbook introduces the world of experimental economics. Contributors including Reinhard Selten and Axel Leijonhufvud add ...

International health care reform

a legal, economic and political analysis

"International Health Care Reform" clearly explains the arguments in economics and justice for intervention by governments in health care markets; the structure and dynamics of health care systems; and the features of competition-oriented reform models. The book will appeal to students and researchers involved in ...

Game theory

a critical text

In recent years game theory has swept through all of the social sciences. Its practitioners have great designs for it, claiming that it offers an opportunity to unify the social sciences and that it it the natural foundation of a rational theory of society. This ...

Madrid 1939

del golpe de Casado al final de la Guerra Civil

Este libro de Luis Español aporta numerosos datos sobre los aspectos más controvertidos de aquellos días, empezando por tratar de forma exhaustiva el tema de los nombramientos realizados por Negrín al final de la guerra.

The sustainable urban development reader

The Sustainable Urban Development Reader brings together classic readings from a wide variety of sources to investigate how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use and ...

Global metropolitan

globalizing cities in a capitalist world

Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. The book explores the meaning of the globalizing project in cities ...

Unmaking Goliath

community control in the face of global capital

In an effort to counter the argument that cities and communities are always powerless in the face of footloose corporations who think nothing of leaving localities in the lurch, "Unmaking Goliath" asks two key questions: What can localities do in the face of heightened capital ...

Making european space

mobility, power and territorial identity

Making European Space crystallises and critically examines the key policy ideas emerging in the new field of European spatial planning, and explores the arguments surrounding policy themes such as polycentric development, sustainability, mobility and peripherality. It develops a theoretically informed critique based on discourse analysis ...

Criminal justice

an introduction to philosophies, theories and practice

The retreat of the elephants

an environmental history of China

Malinowski

odyssey of an anthropologist 1884-1920

Ancient greek athletics

The Duke of Alba

Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third duke of Alba (1507–82), is known to history as “the butcher of Flanders.” The general who carried out Philip II’s repressive policies in the Netherlands, he was responsible for the massacre of thousands of men, women, and ...

Fighting Napoleon

guerrillas, bandits and adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814

Private lives in Renaissance Venice

art, architecture, and the family

Impressionism

paint and politics

Hitler's prisons

legal terror in nazi Germany

State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials ...

Modigliani

beyond the myth

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the greatest - and most misunderstood - artists of the twentieth century. His incisive portraits, erotically charged nudes, beautiful drawings, and primitivistic sculpture have been admired for decades. Modigliani's work, however, has typically been examined in the limited context of ...

Notes on book design

Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi

copying and the italian Reinassance print