Negotiation

how to make deals and reach agreement in business

Negotiation outlines crucial techniques for reaching business agreements. It will help you to identify what you want from a situation, handle the negotiation process and achieve outcomes that bring benefit. This book covers: preparing to negotiate types of negotiation situation goals, outcomes and leverage co-operative ...

Risk

how to make decisions in an uncertain world

Every business decision takes us into a future of opportunity and danger. To move forward with confidence, we need to get to grips with risk and uncertainty. Risk is a concise overview of the principles of risk management and decision making. It will help you ...

Change

how to adapt and transform the business

Every business decision takes us into a future of opportunity and danger. To move forward with confidence, we need to get to grips with risk and uncertainty. Risk is a concise overview of the principles of risk management and decision making. It will help you ...

The Persians

The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 558 bc to the present day. The book traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to ...

The role of Law in european integration

in search of a european identity

This study describes the European concept of legislation and judicial interpretation in the context of European integration. The book was originally published in Germany by Mohr-Verlag and extracts appeared in the American Journal of Comparative Law in 2000. This edition is revised to reflect the ...

Pension design and structure

new lessons from behavioral finance

The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Policy Studies, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body ...

Searching for a different future

the rise of a global middle class in Morocco

Ancient Maya

the rise and fall of a rainforest civilization

Regulating finance

balancing freedom and risk

At a time when regulation of financial markets has been subject to major upheavals this survey will be of particular value. The author is one of the most prominent officials involved in formulating and executing regulatory policy. His concern is to ensure that the new ...

An agenda for a growing Europe

the Sapir report

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has not delivered satisfactory growth performance. This book ...

The psichology of economic decisions

.Vol.II: Reasons and choices

A collection of carefully selected contributions to behavioural economics from some of the leading international scholars in the field. Designed to fully complement Volume One, topics covered include preferences, behavioral game theory, motivated mental states, and emotions and decision-making. The book will provide a point ...

New state spaces

urban governance and the rescaling of statehood

Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state. Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State ...

Fábula de los seis ciegos y el elefante ó la maestría en la gestión de proyectos

Utilizando como metáfora la conocida historia de los seis ciegos, que intentan describir a un elefante, David Schmaltz identifica brillantemente la verdadera causa de las dificultades a la hora de trabajar en un proyecto y nos enseña a superarlas. Utilizando historias de la vida real ...

Power and property in Medieval Germany

economic and social change c.900-1300

In Power and Property in Medieval Germany Professor Arnold takes a fresh look at the problems posed by power and property in a medieval society, in this case the German kingdom. In a series of interrelated studies covering the period 700-1500, but concentrating on the ...

Effective knowledge management for Law firms

While there is significant interest in knowledge management as it applies to legal environments, there are very few books specifically focused on this topic. In Effective Knowledge Management for Law Firms, Matthew Parsons expertly fills this gap by drawing on his work with a leading ...

Excusing crime

When should someone who may have intentionally or knowingly committed criminal wrongdoing be excused? Excusing Crime examines what excusing conditions are, and why familiar excuses, such as duress, are thought to fulfil those conditions. The 'classical' view of excuses sees them as rational defects (such ...

Culture and European Union Law

This book explores the relationship between European Union law, culture, and identity. Community trade and competition rules have certainly affected many mundane, though highly formative, aspects of our day-to-day lives: when we shop, what we drink, even which football matches we watch on television. But ...

Diplomatic law

commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

Denza provides a commentary on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the universally-accepted framework for diplomacy between sovereign States. The author places each provision of the Convention in its historical context. The negotiating background to the provisions is supplemented with a comprehensive commentary on ...

Accountability in restorative justice

In reviving the idea of an informal approach to conflict resolution, the restorative justice movement attempts to break out of the freedom punitive thinking which shapes modern criminal justice. Its proponents claim that its guiding ideals - personalism, participation, and reintegration - deliver a fairer, more effective ...