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This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate law students as well as legal practitioners and policy analysts seeking to understand the main legal principles in international investment law and to be informed of current debates with sufficient rigor to inform further reading"--

As our planet continues its relentless journey through climate change, we stand on the precipice of an era unlike any other. "The Age of Adaptation: How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds, " is a compelling book that offers a profound examination of the ways in which climate change is not just transforming our physical world, but also the complex landscape of human psychology, society, and politics. Author David Collins delves...

Samuel Clemens grew up in a child's paradise--Hannibal, Missouri. There, mischief added humor to everyday events as Sam encountered the folks who would one day reappear as Huck Finn, Aunt Polly, and Becky Thatcher in his books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At eighteen, Sam left Hannibal to seek his fortune. He became a newspaperman and story writer. Then, always a restless spirit, he tried his hand as a ...

Round Top's African American pioneers came into Texas in 1825 when Stephen F. Austin brought in 300 Anglo-Americans, and the people they enslaved, for the purpose of colonizing the area. Soon afterward, more slaves were bought in from other slaveholding states. After the Civil War ended, the descendants of these original Round Top pioneers began building their own community. Many earned money by toiling away in the cotton fields for the very m...

Building upon decades of research, this shortform book distils the rise of management's gurus. The author analyses the economic and political changes which facilitated the rise of this new group and offers reflections on the controversies around the development of 'guru theory' (a reasonably stable and enduring set of assumptions and associated practices). The rise of management gurus is placed in the context of critiques that the field is emp...

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This book offers a general history of the Jesuit order in the United States from the colonial era to the present. It comprises five chapters along with an introduction and an epilogue. The historical focus is on the Jesuits' institutional developments placed in front of a background of American religious, cultural, and social change. A thread of investigation running through the entire book is into the relationship of Jesuit activities in Amer...

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Rethinking Organizational Culture argues that that the entrenched models of organizational culture wrench thinking, feeling and action from a context that intuition warns us is complex and problematic.