A collection of essays, which examine the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such contemporary writers as W G Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and…

Globalization of business need not necessarily pose an overwhelming threat to national economic policies. This volume discusses the options open to national governments to protect themselves from the global business…

Until recently most observers were of the opinion that firms had to adopt a Japanese model of management or perish. This book shows the diversity of productive models and discusses…

Fantasy readers will love this! A blend of Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling, this novel won’t let you go: captivating characters, fast-paced plot. You will wish you could spend more time…

The book traces the specificities of Asian economies back to the formation of their basic institutions after WWII. It follows their transformations after the 1997 Asian crisis until the eruption…

There have been debates about lean production and Japanization . The focus for this text and debate has been the international automobile industry, which has been examined for practice of…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

The Magic Necklace of Al-Andalus is a historical fantasy novel. The historical part occurs, with one Roman digression, in Spain during the nearly 800 years of the Arab presence from…