2012 Blackwell Publishers

Effective communications with consumers are especially necessary for success in a business as ephemeral and competitive as fashion. This textbook for students of fashion design, fashion marketing, and communications sets out all that they need ...

2012 Blackwell Publishers

This five-volume Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization and is the definitive reference resource for students, researchers and academics in the field. * offers clear and concise explanations of the ...

2012 Blackwell Publishers

The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over ...

2011 Blackwell Publishers

Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues ...

2011 Blackwell Publishers

Utilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes. * Covers ...

2011 Blackwell Publishers

The Contemporary Global Economy provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy, focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s. It explains the main drivers of economic change and how we ...

2011 Blackwell Publishers

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, ...

2011 Blackwell Publishers

A Probability Metrics Approach to Financial Risk Measures relates the field of probability metrics and risk measures to one another and applies them to finance for the first time.* Helps to answer the question: which ...

2010 Blackwell Publishers

This is the sixteenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. This title examines key issues pertinent to the ...

2010 Blackwell Publishers

This book is a compilation of seminal articles on poverty and welfare in the United States that would work well as reading for graduate level courses in welfare, poverty, and evaluation. It includes articles from ...

2010 Blackwell Publishers

This book explores the development of law in Europe from its medieval origins to the present day, charting the transformation from law rooted in the Church and local community towards a recognition of the centralised, ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing will help students and professionals alike to explore key elements of the housing economy: home prices, housing wealth, mortgage debt, and financial risk. Features 24 original essays, ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Economic Policy has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

In this title, top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. "Economic Policy" has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

"Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk" deals with the highly timely topic of the Corporate Board and its relationship to risk, both in terms of its management and its creation. The work presents ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

"The Economics of Risk and Insurance" covers diverse issues such as risk aversion, expected utility, and moral hazard within the pure theory of insurance. This title provides a clear exposition of the necessary mathematics. It ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

"International Macroeconomics" provides students with an analytically rigorous introduction to the impact of globalization on macroeconomics. This book: presents an analytically rigorous introduction to the field and uniquely includes optional econometric studies; provides a unified ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

In "Practical Financial Optimization: A Library of GAMS Models", the authors provide a diverse set of models for portfolio optimization, based on the General Algebraic Modelling System. 'GAMS' consists of a language which allows a ...

2009 Blackwell Publishers

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. "Economic Policy" has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging ...