Ordinary choices

individuals, incommensurability, and democracy

Theories and practices of development

Environmental management and development

The continual degradation of the planet's environment is something that affects every person in every country, be it developed or developing. Statements and policies are made at international levels, but their effectiveness is questionable. Also, are techniques of environmental management (EM) used in the ...

EU enlargement and the environment

institutional change and environmental policy in Central and Eastern Europe

This volume focuses attention on key environmental and institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at four central themes - capacity changes and limitations, the EU's mixed ...

Sustainable urban development

.Vol.1: The framework and protocols for environmental assessment

Sustainable Urban Developments examines the models of sustainable development and sets out the framework for analysing urban development and the sustainability issues this gives rise to. It examines the protocols (planning, property development, design, construction and operational activities) developed to address the issues and provides ...

Technological economy

In this major new collection, leading experts explore the multidisciplinary connections between technology and economy, drawing on new convergences between economic sociology and science and technology studies. Through theoretical and empirical studies, the authors investigate: * economics and economic knowledges as technologies * the economies as socio-technical ...

A modern introduction to probility and statistics

understanding why and how

Probability and Statistics are studied by most science students. Many current texts in the area are just cookbooks and, as a result, students do not know why they perform the methods they are taught, or why the methods work. The strength of this book is ...

The architecture of Petra

This is an enormous and impressive book not only full of facts, but also solving mysteries. It provides a detailed and lavishly illustrated catalogue of the main monuments of Petra. Then, in seeking the origins of Petra's particular architecture and its close relations with ...

Typologie spatio-temporelle de l'ecclesia byzantine

la mytagogie de maxime le Confesseur dans la culture philosophique de l'antiquité tardive

This study addresses the philosophical context of the Mystagogy of Maximus the Confessor. It examines how the Byzantine monk integrates Neoplatonist topics when exposing one of the most important feature of his religious conception of the physical world or cosmology. The volume contains three chapters ...

A guide to international monetary economics

exchange rate theories, systems and policies

Now in its third incarnation, this widely acclaimed and popular text has again been fully updated and revised by the author. There is a bewildering array of models to explain the volatility of exchange rates since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the ...

The theory of environmental agreements and taxes

CO2 policy performance in comparative perspective

Miller International accounting/financial reporting standards guide 2005

2005 Miller GAAP guide level A

restatement and analysis of current FASB standards

The Miller GAAP Guide Level A analyzes authoritative GAAP literature contained in Level A of the GAAP hierarchy, established by Statement on Auditing Standards No. 69, which include FASB Statements and Interpretations, as well as APB Opinions and Accounting Research Bulletins. It is written in ...

Miller GAAS guide 2005

a comprehensive restatement of standards for auditing, attestation, compilation, and review

2005 Miller GASS practice manual

current SASs, SSAEs, and SSARSs in practice

George Georgiades, CPA, has more than 23 years of experience in public accounting, including seven years as an audit senior manager with a major international firm. He currently has his own firm and consults exclusively with CPA firms on technical accounting, auditing, and financial statement ...

The management of equity investments

capital markets,equity research,investment decisions and risk management with case studies

The Management of Investments is based on an extensive research project done by the author in 2003 and 2004, in the United States, England, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland. The author outlines the rules behind the able management of investments by private individuals, banks, and ...

The economics of tourism destinations

The measurement of tourism is not an easy task. The Economics of Tourism Destinations provides a succinct guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners alike to decipher the methods of measurement of supply, demand, trends and impacts. In nine chapters, The ...

The economics of recreation, leisure and tourism

Now in its third successful edition, The Economics of Leisure and Tourism has been fully revised and updated to cover all the latest issues and changes, and more. Essentially a real world text in applied economics, it explains the necessary economic theories from first principles ...

Les thermidoriens

Il s'écoule presque autant de temps entre la convocation des états généraux et la chute de Robespierre qu'entre celle-ci et la prise de pouvoir par Bonaparte. Objet d'innombrables travaux d'historiens, la première partie de la Révolution est plus et mieux connue ...

Labour rights as Human Rights