The mechanics of law firm profitability

The Mechanics of Law Firm Profitability: People, Process, and Technology examines why a focus on profitability and metrics is reshaping law firm operations and matter management.

Family governance and surplus wealth

Family Governance and Surplus Wealth: Sustaining Family Fortunes de-mystifies the topic of family governance and shows advisers and families how governance can assist with the challenges of managing and transitioning surplus wealth.

Esg in mining and minerals

This book will be an invaluable guide for directors and management in mining and minerals companies, investors and financiers, as well as sustainability professionals, in-house and external counsel and anyone else who is concerned with the ESG impacts of extractive industries.

Oil and gas m&a

A number of new chapters are also featured, covering topics such as competition law, environmental law and dealing with material adverse changes.This new edition will prove an essential resource to anyone involved in the upstream industry M&A process including lawyers, bankers, financiers, bu...

Infrastructure finance

This comprehensive new book provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of infrastructure project financing. The boundaries of "infrastructure" are clearly defined and the key processes, from project concept via funding mechanisms, risk analysis, financial structuring and funding sources, to financ...

Atlantic isles: travel and identity in the british and irish west, 1880–1940

Atlantic Isles examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’ in late-nineteenth century Britain and Ireland. The book reveals how imagined geographies from the Cornish cliffs to the Connemara highlands were spaces of modern enchantment while also central to notions of Brit...

The victoria county history of herefordshire: bosbury

Bosbury is the second parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire, following the history of Eastnor published in 2013. Like Eastnor, Bosbury is an agricultural parish, near the market town of Ledbury. It covers a relatively large area below the wes...

The florentine florin

Locatelli revises our understanding of the leading currency of the Middle Ages, the florin, by investigating it as a medium with hitherto neglected political, social, and cultural dimensions in the interactions between the Florentine merchants, the Angevin Crown, and the Papacy.

Unhappy mothers

How did the experiences and emotions of unhappy mothers come to light in postwar Britain? This history looks at the role of five communities in drawing attention to the struggles of early mothering, unpicking the professional, political and social motivations that drove efforts to break silences ...

Feeling blue

Feeling blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes – hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, consumerism – which are tied together by the idea of the ‘modern’ hospital. The book does not simply describe changes t...

The chrysokamino metallurgy workshop and its territory

This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III).

Ramesses ii, egypt's ultimate pharaoh

Peter Brand reveals Ramesses the Great as a gifted politician, canny elder statesman, and tenacious warrior; a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age.

The sanctuary of demeter and kore: miscellaneous finds of terracotta

This volume presents the terracotta miscellaneous finds from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Acrocorinth. The finds comprise 21 classes, including protomes and masks, altars, plaques, models of various personal and household items, and loomweights and other textile tools.

Tombs, burials, and commemoration in corinth's northern cemetery

This volume publishes the results of the rescue excavations along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth in 1961 and 1962. It examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town.

Aegean bronze age rhyta

This comprehensive study of Bronze Age rhyta from the Aegean addresses questions of typology, function, context, and the uses of these vessels. Rhyta are among the most appealing yet enigmatic classes of artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age, produced in a wide range of forms and media with a cons...

The sanctuary of demeter and kore: greek lamps and offering trays

This volume continues the publication of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. It incorporates two bodies of material: Greek lamps and offering trays.

Manchester unspun

An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.

Fighting for the soul of general practice

A view of contemporary general practice from two practising GPs. Themes include industrialisation versus craftsmanship; the effect of protocol; and the breakdown of relational care. The theoretical perspectives introduced are illustrated through a series of anonymised anecdotes. 15 b/w illus. Fr...

Photo obscura

This book discusses the transformation of post-photography into a significant movement that redefines photography by integrating it with emerging technologies and creative practices, resulting in works that may not even resemble photographs but still retain a photographic influence. 40 illus.

Popular music in leeds

The first academic collection dedicated to the histories, heritage, people and places of popular music in Leeds. It presents critical social and historical case studies exploring Leeds’ music and musical spaces, central players - musicians and music industry figures, and key moments in diverse mu...

On the communicative turn in philosophy

The book aims to give prominence to the way the concept of communication has been deployed within philosophical debates. It shows how philosophers have adopted this concept in their discussions on the issues of intersubjectivity, community and the ethics of dialogue. A PDF version of this book i...

Under the counter

Tells the undocumented story of Britain’s trade in 8mm hardcore pornography, exploring how entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to produce and distribute hardcore films. Draws on extensive archival research, including the use of legal records, police files, media reportage, and interviews wi...

The value of a whale

This book shows that beyond the fossil fuel industry, it is the lesser-known but vastly more powerful world of asset managers and shadow banking which is inhibiting our ability to pursue climate and environmental justice. Those with the influence to effect global change increasingly see commodify...

Early planning utopias

Interrogating canonical texts and plans written during the nineteenth and early twentieth century on both sides of the North Atlantic, this book explores the role of gender in the visioning of the ideal city.

Ethics, law and the business of being human

7 entrepreneurial leadership workouts

In a world changing faster than ever and as organisations are being reimagined, leaders and their teams need entrepreneurial leadership muscle. This book provides a guide through seven short muscle workouts about how to identify and develop the muscle-power to cope with whatever the world throws ...

Delivering the visitor experience

Delivering the Visitor Experience is a practical guide to creating and managing the visitor experience in your museum. Whether you are running an established visitor attraction or creating a new experience from scratch, this book combines expert advice, transferable models and diverse case studie...

Inclusive cataloging

Filling a gap in the literature, this volume provides librarians and catalogers with practical approaches to reparative cataloging as well as a broader understanding of the topic and its place in the technical services landscape. As part of the profession's ongoing EDISJ efforts to redress librar...

Let's roll

This book guides school and public librarians on how to run tabletop roleplaying games in a library setting.

The special collections handbook

Based on practical experience and the latest ideas in the heritage sector, The Special Collections Handbook is a no-nonsense companion to help librarians with limited resources care for unique and distinctive collections and share them with wider audiences.

Creating a reading culture in primary and secondary schools

This book will help teachers and librarians to develop a whole-school reading culture and advocate for the importance of student reading.

A handbook of history, theory and practice of the dewey decimal classification system

A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System is a comprehensive, practical guide to today’s DDC, used by over 200,000 libraries globally. It is an essential companion for DDC classifiers, and reference for students and educators of classification.

Introduction to information behaviour

This landmark textbook is an essential primer for students and practitioners interested in information seeking, needs and behaviour, user studies and information literacy.

A history of russia volume 2

Moss's engaging historical account includes full treatment of politics, economics, foreign affairs and wars, and also of everyday life, women, legal developments, religion, literature, art and popular culture. This fully-revised edition features new text and illustrations.

The new politics of poland

This book offers a multi-layered analysis of how and why Poland has changed over the past thirty years and how this is relevant for its recent political crisis.

Galatea

A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play

Trade winds

This book recounts Christiaan De Beukelaer's personal odyssey aboard a sail cargo vessel and offers a compelling insight into the developments the shipping industry is undertaking to cut its carbon emissions

Now that's what i call a history of the 1980s

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

Manchester

Using 60 different words that speak of the city, from bees to sewers, Manchester: something rich and strange offers a new way of thinking about this iconic post-industrial city. Twenty-three writers from diverse backgrounds offer their take on the everyday things that inform how we experience Man...

Global marxism

Arguing against the idea that Marxism is a Eurocentric theory with nothing to teach the Global South, this book explores the lives and ideas of a remarkable set of revolutionaries, from Ho Chi Minh to Ali Shariati.

International mathematical olympiad volume 1

A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles, this fully updated three-volume series will challenge and engage serious mathematicians and enthusiasts alike.

Russia in the age of alexander ii, tolstoy and dostoevsky

A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia's most fascinating period of history.

Bergen county academies entrance practice tests

The Bergen County Academies (BCA) Entrance Exam is taken by students of grade 8 seeking admission in grade 9 at the BCA. This book will take you through five full-length practice tests that simulate the real BCA test.

Love and anti-judaism in medieval english romance

This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.

Film modernism

An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film.

Law and humanities

This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.

Intelligence and espionage in the english republic c. 1600–60

This book provides a rich survey of the early-modern ‘secret state’, intelligence gathering espionage, and the work of spies in the British late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth-centuries.