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The book starts with the history of central banking in England and the United States and explains in detail how the Fed works. It goes on to cover the Fed's recent unprecedented activities to keep the Great Recession from spiraling into Greatest Depression. This timely coverage of an era of innovation makes the book an attractive supplement for use in Macroeconomics or Money and Banking courses. The author¿s goal is to improve our understandin...

A synthesis of the ecology and evolution of South Africa's fynbos region, offering insights into megadiversity throughout the world.

This work provides comprehensive guidance to practitioners on EU issues in the context of judicial review, taking into account the latest developments. Discussing procedure, principle, and practice in three separate parts, it explores the interaction between EU and public law and discusses the most effective approaches for managing claims.

Is Stuart Hall a Cultural Studies Scholar or a Postcolonial Scholar? Or is it better to engage with his work as an intellectual of both fields?Postwar Britain witnessed the concurrent evolution of two new intellectual movements which have since become institutionalized as two major academic fields of enquiry, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Although both fields are enormously diverse they have developed a parallel focus around the p...

Early this morning, Detective Sergeant Sam Mason was murdered when he and his partner answered a robbery-in-progress call at a local liquor store. Why was he murdered? His wife, Erva Mason, believes it was because he was getting too close to identifying the leader of the Black Mafia. When the police show little progress or interest in solving the murder, Erva and her three girlfriends embark on a dangerous quest to do just that-a difficult tas...

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Investment protection treaties generally include, in one form or another, the obligation to treat investments fairly and equitably. This book examines the relationship between this obligation and the minimum standard that can be found in customary international law, tracing the history of both concepts, their differences and similarities.

This book examines how citizens judge whether government is abusing its power when making use of eminent domain. Debbie Becher argues that neither a belief in property rights nor a desire for growth guide popular evaluations of government legitimacy. Instead, community residents, businesses, government bureaucrats, and politicians all appeal to a shared notion of investment to justify policy.

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A tour through the origin and evolution of the English language in 15 themes: dying, nose, drunk, meal, privy, fool, prostitute, money, weather, old person, spacecraft, words of endearment, oaths and types of pop music. Each chapter takes the reader through the timeline of words for the topic, with witty commentary and anecdotes along the way, from this foremost author and expert on the English language.

A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and beautiful detail. A phenomenal bestseller throughout Europe, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., like Fifty Shades of Grey, breaks with accepted ideas...

This book presents an economic framework that addresses the motivation of the innovative entrepreneur.

This book presents an economic framework that addresses the motivation of the innovative entrepreneur.

In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder. This book opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion.