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Business, Economics & LawAugust 2010Markets, rules and institutions of exchange
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by Stan Metcalfe, Mark Harvey, Mark Harvey
This book is about how to understand the huge variety of markets and market organisation in contemporary economies through a dialogue between a group of UK and French scholars. It presents a critique and development of institutional views of markets, and 'puts markets in their place' in a wider political and social context. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis in markets, the book makes a topical and significant contribution on the importance of the rules and regulations that constitute markets, and their broader political and legal frameworks. Moreover, the disruption of markets brings to the fore their interconnection with the broader economy, with production, distribution and consumption in a way often ignored at the height of market bubbles. Both theoretical and empirical, a wide range of markets are considered, capital markets for new technology and venture capital, for food, domestic services and scientific knowledge. The authors address how markets emerge and disappear, or indeed why they fail to appear, as well has how they become stable and institutionalised. ;
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July 2024Die Superpfoten 1. Ein Hund mit Pups-Power
Aufregende Leseabenteuer mit Oetinger SPLASH
by Mark Tatulli, Mark Tatulli, Matthias Wieland
Ein Superheld auf vier Pfoten Bosco führt ein gemütliches Hundeleben. Als zwei Einbrecher in sein geliebtes Heim eindringen, schlägt er sie mit seinen superdehnbaren Beinen, seinem Hundeatmen und seinen mächtigen Hundepupsen in die Flucht. Da kommt ein Roboter angeflogen und entführt Bosco in das geheime Hauptquartier der Superpfoten. Dort soll Bosco zum Superhelden ausgebildet werden. Bosco und ein anstrengender Job? Nein, danke! Doch dann erfährt er, dass überall auf der Welt niedliche kleine Kätzchen ins Weltall entführt werden… Dieser Comic-Roman für Kinder ab 8 Jahren bietet ein ganz besonderes Lesevergnügen: Leicht verständliche Texte, lustige Illustrationen und eine rasante Geschichte machen es auch leseschwächeren Kindern leicht, den Spaß am Lesen für sich zu entdecken. Die perfekte Kombination aus tierischen Superhelden und spannendem Weltraumabenteuer verpackt in eine herrlich verrückte Bildergeschichte – zum Pupsen lustig! Die Superpfoten 1. Ein Hund mit Pups-Power: Bosco rettet die Kätzchen Ein tierischer Superheld: Witziger und leicht lesbarer Comic-Roman für Kinder ab 8 Jahren. Ideal für Leseanfänger: Die leicht verständliche Geschichte ist ein unterhaltsamer Einstieg in das selbstständige Lesen. Geniale Kombination: Lieblingsthemen wie Hunde, Pupsen, Superhelden und Weltall – verpackt in einem lebhaften Comic. Witzig und spannend: Die lustige Geschichte rund um Freundschaft, Mut und Abenteuer macht Spaß und weckt die Lust am Lesen. Die Superpfoten bereitet Kindern ab 8 Jahren einen einfachen und lustigen Einstieg in die Welt des Lesens. Eine wunderbare, leicht lesbare Lektüre im Comic-Stil für Fans von tierischen Abenteuern wie Paw Patrol und Dog Man.
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2018Qualities of food
by Mark Harvey, Stan Metcalfe, Andrew McMeekin, Mark Harvey, Alan Warde
In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics.
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2018Innovation by demand
by Andrew McMeekin, Stan Metcalfe, Mark Tomlinson, Mark Harvey, Ken Green, Vivien Walsh
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 1999French society in revolution 1789–1799
by David Andress, Mark Greengrass
French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from unjustified neglect. This study examines both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aris. . . . ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Intelligence and national security policymaking on Iraq
by James Pfiffner, Mark Phythian
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2016The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare
by Susanne Martin, Max Taylor, Mark Currie, John Hogan, Leonard Weinberg
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2017Neoliberal power and public management reforms
by Peter Triantafillou, Mark Haugaard
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2025Mrs Dalloway
Biography of a novel
by Mark Hussey
A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025The four dimensions of power
Understanding domination, empowerment and democracy
by Mark Haugaard
In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, he offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions. The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy. Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for scholars and activists.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026Negotiating identity conflicts in a fragmenting world order
by Paul Willem Meerts, Mark Anstey
At every level of human interaction new levels of identity-based tension are in evidence. Contributors to this book explore facets of fragmentation processes within systems of state and interstate organisation, how they influence the use of negotiation, and how negotiation might be used to effect renewed coherence. Following Anstey's (Ch1) introductory chapter framing the nature and shape of fragmentation dynamics, Zartman (Ch 2) argues that the use of negotiation as a process of conflict resolution is deeply shaped by identity groups whose internal coherence is dependent on sustaining a negative identity of others. International relations are no longer solely the realm of experienced diplomats but are shaped as Meerts (Ch3) points out by politicians seeking to be responsive to voting publics rather than wider concerns. Anstey digs into problems of fragmentation (Ch. 4) and Troitskiy (Ch 5) points out how a reluctant acceptance of the power of 'the other' can lead to a form of strategic stability in relations. Anstey and Meerts (Ch 6) point out in their analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian case as an identity conflict turned very bad. Guggenbuhl (Ch 7 ) reveals how structures and processes have been designed within the EU to prevent, contain and regulate conflicts to limit risks of confrontation and fragmentation. Schuessler (Ch 8) to advocates a shift away from a template or roadmap approach to EU membership to a cohesion based on non-dominance. There is still a strong desire on the part of some states, like Northern Macedonia, to become EU members, as reflected in Manton's (Ch 9). Paula Garzon and Frans Schram explain the success of the Colombia Peace Negotiations (Ch 10), while Odigie and da Rocha (Ch 11) analyse the struggle faced by ECOWAS to influence coup leaders in Mali to return to constitutional government and changes of government by constitutional means. Liang (Ch12) discusses how the internet as the modern vehicle of inter-state, inter-group and interpersonal communication has become weaponised. In Ch 13 Anstey draws some lessons from contributions to the compilation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2026The tragedy of the border
Asylum, destitution and homelessness
by Mark Rainey
Amid the global migration crisis, the UK has created and increasingly hostile policy environment for asylum seekers that has pushed many into unnecessary hardship and homelessness. This volume is an ethnographic study alongside refused asylum seekers and refugees living destitute in Manchester, UK. Based on over three years of research in emergency night shelters and on the streets of the city, it draws on the stories and experiences of those who have been driven into destitution by an antagonistic immigration system. The book not only explores how legal and temporal uncertainty shapes the daily lives of those who have had their asylum claims refused, but also attends to the experiences of volunteers and activists working on the frontline of the crisis. While the work is rich in detail, it also extends outwards and offers new insights into our understanding of borders and the need to rethink the grand notions of justice and hospitality.
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