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New approaches to mergers and acquisitions

New Approaches to Mergers and Acquisitions explores the dynamic and often unpredictable world of corporate growth through alliances, mergers, and acquisitions. Just as living organisms experience cycles of birth, growth, maturity, and decline, organisations too face these phases. However, unlike living entities, businesses can achieve ...

Demagogues, populism and misinformation

a guide to combating dark ideas

Today's volatile political and social climate, is characterised by demagogues, populism, and increasingly AI driven misinformation, combined with growing global crises ranging from obesity to the environment. This eclectic collection brings together a diverse array of international contributors to tackle these crucial issues. These ...

How to survive a hostile world

power, politics, and the case for realism

The oldest ideas are the best. This book is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter, a scholar of international relations, defends the realist approach to understanding the world by addressing head-on the most robust critiques of the ...

The geopolitics of fear

from security to solidarity at Europe's racial borders

The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the most vulnerable, yet understudied, area of the EU's anti-immigrant security regime: the port ...

Nuclear weapons

an international history

A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world order. Its power was harnessed, nuclear bombs invented, and the ...

First among equals

U.S. foreign policy in a multipolar world

A fresh, concise roadmap for U.S. grand strategy in a multipolar world For the past thirty years, post-Cold War triumphalism and a desire to reshape the world have defined U.S. foreign policy. But the failures of the global war on terror, the return ...

The means of prediction

how AI really works (and who benefits)

An eye-opening examination of how power-not technology-will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job interviews, and wars. The ubiquity of AI is so great that it might produce public resignation-a sense that ...

La Guerra Civil española

Una profunda y renovada panorámica sobre las causas, el curso, las consecuencias y el significado histórico de la guerra civil librada en España entre el 17 de julio de 1936 y el 1 de abril de 1939. Transcurridos ya más de noventa años desde su ...

Probably overthinking it

how to use data to answer questions, avoid statistical traps, and make better decisions

An essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making. Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Blogger, teacher, and computer scientist Allen B. Downey knows well ...

Company men

the invention of shareholder value and the splintering of the American economy

How an esoteric economic theory-and its most devout believers-changed the world forever. In the modern economy, stock price is king. The value of a corporation is measured in how it enriches its shareholders, even when doing so subtracts from long-term growth or social good. Greed ...

Impermissible punishments

how prison became a problem for democracy

An original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment's purposes and prisoners' rights. Impermissible Punishments explores the history of punishment inside prisons and how governments grappled with obligations to justify the punishments they impose. Legal scholar ...

Paranoid publics

psychopolitics of truth

Facts and established truths are regularly denied in contemporary life. This situation has brought paranoid politics into the mainstream, from conspiracy theories like QAnon, to sex panics and assaults on public health measures, to election denialism and the rise of vigilante militias. Paranoid Publics analyzes ...

Prison abolition for realists

A lucid guide to the radical politics of prison abolitionists There is growing recognition that mass incarceration is unjust and undemocratic, but prison abolition continues to be dismissed as naïve, idealistic, and out of touch with reality. Anna Terwiel challenges this view, carefully examining the ...

Finding value in numbers

the essential investing toolkit to win on Wall Street

To be successful as an investor, one needs a framework. And no investing framework works without numbers. Although quantitative methods can be intimidating, they provide a major boost to the quality of analysis. Written for readers without a technical background, Finding Value in Numbers is ...

David and Goliath

commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian war

The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world's largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that-while still the largest on the European continent-is almost thirty times smaller and has only ...

Autocracy 2.0

how China's rise reinvented tyranny

In Autocracy 2.0, Jennifer Lind reveals how China's leaders defied expectations and propelled the country to innovation-superpower status - and what that means for the balance of power and global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In 2008, the world watched in awe as 2 ...

Insuring cyberinsecurity

insurance companies as symbolic regulators

Despite the massive costs associated with data breaches, ransomware, viruses, and cyberattacks, most organizations remain thoroughly unprepared to safeguard consumer data. Over the past two decades, the insurance industry has begun offering cyber insurance to help organizations manage cybersecurity and privacy law compliance, while also ...

Le renouveau des quasi-contrats

L'ouvrage prend pour objet d'analyse un sujet passionnant, mais globalement délaissé par les auteurs et la doctrine : les quasi-contrats. Cette source d'obligations, a été largement revisitée par l'ordonnance n° 2016-131 du 10 février 2016. Cette réforme a tranché le débat relatif ...

Méthodologies du droit et des sciences du droit

En matière de méthodologie, les juristes ont le plus souvent eu pour réflexe de se réapproprier des modèles provenant d'autres champs de savoir. Cette attitude présente plusieurs difficultés. Elles reposent tout d'abord sur une part de fiction. Les juristes ne sont ni des ...

Légiférer et réglementer

Manuel pratique de légistique

Tous les ans, des dizaines de lois et ordonnances et entre 1 300 à 2 300 décrets sont publiés au Journal officiel, sans compter des milliers d'arrêtés réglementaires. Malgré le regroupement des règles susceptibles de s'appliquer dans le Guide de légistique élaboré par ...