Non-Fiction Books

Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond th...

A modern approach to self-employment and business start-up.

In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading pr...

This light-hearted look at business relations between Japan and the West follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthrig...

You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism-its drive, for example, to ...

'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE FT/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 'A brilliant new book' Daily Telegraph 'Well written . . . and often enterta...

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Do people in new democracies undergoing market reforms turn against these reforms when the economic adjustment is painful? The conventional wisdom ...

Environmental protection and resource conservation depend on the imposition of property rights (broadly defined) because in the absence of some pro...

Unlock the secrets of effective pricing strategies with this classic guide, designed for managers at all levels. Whether you're a seasoned executiv...

The market leading "Essentials of Investments, 6e" by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the pr...

McGregor has been leading authority on the law of damages for nearly 150 years. Part of the Common Law Library, it provides in-depth and comprehens...

The focus of Proprietary Claims and Insolvency is the use of the trust and analogous devices by companies and individuals to gain priority over oth...

This title discusses the legal considerations involved in company liquidation and addresses the various methods of winding-up. It covers the legal ...

* Summarises the basic facts and key principles of the important cases in contract law, in clear, straightforward language * Organised by topic are...

* Summarises the basic facts and key principles of the important cases in tort law, in clear, straightforward language * Organised by topic areas t...

Nutshells present the essentials of the law in clear, straightforward language. Nutshells explain the basic principles and highlight the key cases...

Marketing Management offers comprehensive coverage of this important area, dealing with both strategic and operational marketing issues with a libe...

The Marxist theory of capitalist growth and transformation has often been shrouded in obscurity, either by endless recapitulation of Marx's texts o...

The European Community and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations functions and powers - have established a formal relationship which could pro...

The first volume of the International Environmental Law Reports focuses on early decisions. It includes all the well known, and some lesser known, ...

This book serves as a compact introduction to the economic analysis of law and organization. At the same time it covers a broad spectrum of issues....

The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in di...

Decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgements of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public internationa...

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions o...

Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Ev...

Originally published in 2006, this book reveals the many harms which flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalising world. The...

In 1980, the United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) came into being as an attempt to create a uniform commercial sale...

This book was first published in 2006. Many common law countries inherited British income tax rules. Whether the inheritance was direct or indirect...

This 2007 book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development conti...

The relationship between science, law and justice has become a pressing issue with US Supreme Court decisions beginning with Daubert v. Merrell-Dow...

This is the first law book devoted entirely to the subject of truth commissions. The book sets forth standards of procedural fairness aimed at prot...

International criminal law has developed considerably in the last decade and a half, resulting in a complex and re-invigorated discipline. This has...

Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can ...

This book contains perspectives of world-renowned scholars from the fields of law, economics, and political science about the relationship between ...

The holy sites in Jerusalem exist as objects of international veneration and sites of nationalist contest. They stand at the heart of the Israeli-P...

This 2006 book provides a fully annotated discussion of the ethical universe surrounding state-mandated and private legal disputes involving the cu...

This 2007 book assists the practitioner seeking to enforce a foreign judgment in the United States or a US-rendered judgment abroad in navigating t...

There is a silent epidemic of childhood sexual abuse in the United States and a legal system that is not effectively protecting children from preda...

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions o...

From attacks on oil infrastructure in post-war reconstruction Iraq to the laying of gas pipelines in the Amazon Rainforest through indigenous commu...

Nutcases provide in-depth case analysis of the facts, principles and decision of the most important cases in an area of law. They include a number ...

With the publication of clinical data from the MERIT and CIBIS trials proving that betablockers are effective in the treatment of heart failure, Pr...

Clinic Handbook: Gastroenterology provides practical guidelines on the medical and administrative issues associated with running a gastroenterolog...