Humanity is currently facing many critical challenges: a crisis in food production, the effects of climate change, and including global financial c...

The postmodern articulation of power brought along a change from structural view to a genealogy of power by stressing the circular, capillary and e...

This book provides background and analysis of the premiums charged by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which is a government-owned ...

The ongoing global financial crisis, coupled with the continued dramatic increases in life expectancy, have escalated the concerns countries have r...

This book discusses the contextual factors such as cultural and institutional settings that impact on effective people management practices in Asia...

Asian and Pacific countries are rapidly emerging as engines of global growth. In 2006, the 7.9 percent increase in the size of the region's develop...

Precious metals are a class of metals deemed rare or highly valued, such as gold, silver, palladium, and platinum. Such metals can be bought and so...

Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas defeated the Portuguese in 1622. However, with the fa...

Muscat, the capital city of present day Oman, has had a long, and colorful history as a typical Indian Ocean port at the mouth of the Persian Gulf....

This book discusses the political and economic history of the port of Bushehr, which by the end of the eighteenth century had become the gateway to...

The history of the Persian Gulf during the 18th century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned scholar W...

Considering the new possibilities offered by endogenous growth models and the improvement of data information, new variables have been introduced i...

This book presents and discusses contemporary political and economic studies of all aspects of the European Union. In addition, the book also publi...

If all politics are local, then all economics are also international, regional and local. Globalisation, for all its mystery and so-called inevitab...

While some may dispute that economics is the driving force behind much of history, nobody can argue that trade is not a significant factor in inter...

Peru and the United States have a strong and cooperative relationship. Several issues in U.S.-Peruvian relations are likely to be considered in dec...

This book intends to provide the reader with a number of perspectives about the complex political landscape of Peru. Further, its main objective is...

The United States and the Republic of the Philippines maintain close ties stemming from the U.S. colonial period (1898-1946), the bilateral securit...

The student's future as a knowledge worker is the starting point of this book on the philosophy of science. With this in mind, the book combines a ...

One of Canada's most successful homegrown buisnesses, Black's Photography grew from a single store to a national, and international, chain. Robert ...

By taking this heart-rending journey into his own luminous past and the more remote and sombre past of the lumber-town where he grew up, Al Sandine...

Over the past 25 years, the relationship between the United States and Poland has been close and cooperative. The United States strongly supported ...