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The Limits of Globalization
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95Both the force and the limitations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today can best be understood through an analysis of their concrete manifestations. Using examples from the people's art of Potsdammer Platz to the ways in which Western cultural icons are reinterpreted in Asian magazines, this collection of essays unpicks the rhetoric... more...
Managing Security Overseas
CRC Press 2009; US$ 87.95Details the recommended protocol for protecting people and assets in hostile global settings. This work offers the fundamental understanding and advanced tools required to ensure business is conducted safely regardless of the risk level, and identifying the various threats that loom in international projects. more...
Japanese Dolls
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 49.95For the art enthusiast, the doll collector, as well as the casual reader, the world of Japanese dolls is a fascinating one. For centuries, Japanese doll artisans created spectacular works of art, invested with both significant cultural meaning and elemental beauty, encased in the deceptively simple body of a doll. In Japanese Dolls: The Fascinating... more...
Deadly Innocence
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 7.99Karla and Paul seemed like the picture-perfect newlyweds, but were really a pair of vicious killers who abducted, sexually tortured and murdered innocent schoolgirls, videotaping their evil acts in suburban Niagara Falls. Billed as the crime of the century in Canada, this case has received a great deal of media coverage on both sides of the border.... more...
The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology
Wiley 2008; US$ 202.95The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology brings together thirty-eight original essays covering the wide inter-disciplinary field of political sociology. Represents the most comprehensive overview available in the field of political sociology Covers traditional questions as well as emerging topics including recent debates on gender,... more...
The Beautiful and Damned
OUP Oxford 1998; US$ 8.99`The victor belongs to the spoils.' Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War One generation who believed life to be meaningless and who pursued wealth despite its corrosive effect. Gloria and Anthony Patch party until money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam... more...
Georg Simmel: Rembrandt
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?" This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the world's most important painters. more...
Bright Satanic Mills
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 114.95Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for universities to contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated. In this book, a multidisciplinary and international team of experts considers the reasons for, and the implications of, the new relationship between universities and territorial... more...
Tech Mining
Wiley 2004; US$ 134.00Tech Mining makes exploitation of text databases meaningful to those who can gain from derived knowledge about emerging technologies. It begins with the premise that we have the information, the tools to exploit it, and the need for the resulting knowledge. The information provided puts new capabilities at the hands of technology managers. Using the... more...
Advances in Health Economics
Wiley 2005; US$ 194.95"It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors. Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health economists in the world." —Steve Morgan, University of British Columbia This is a series of essays to mark the 25 anniversary of HERU. Existing and former HERU staff write about their special interests and work records.... more...









