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Murky water
This book makes a powerful contribution to the debate on the UK water system, exposing the problems and arguing that a radical overhaul is crucial for a sustainable future.
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Digital content in museums
Digital Content in Museums provides a comprehensive grounding in the skills, best practices and tools needed for digital content editors and managers to succeed in the museums, galleries, libraries and heritage sector.Focusing on how digital content can positively impact the GLAM sector, this pra...
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Act now
Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.
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Between the spreadsheets
‘Clear, concise, engaging and entertaining. Highly recommended for anyone involved with data in any capacity.' Information ProfessionalDirty data is a problem that costs businesses thousands, if not millions, every year. And with the increasing use of AI and Generative AI, it’s only getting worse...
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Serving the public
Exploring the food we serve in schools, hospitals and prisons, this book argues that public food provision offers a microcosm of society at large. It highlights how public institutions are harnessing the power of purchase to secure public health.
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Foundations of social ecological economics
This book presents social ecological economics as an emerging paradigm combining critical social science with structural realism to offer a radical, theoretically grounded, alternative economics based on ethical social provisioning and meeting needs. The foundations include its radical roots, phi...
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Exotic alternative investments
This book evaluates new opportunities such as life settlements, litigation funding, farmlands, royalties, weather derivatives, collectables and other unique asset classes. It provides an in-depth analysis of the returns, risks, opportunities and portfolio effects for investors, advisors and acade...
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Privatising humanity
A powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets.We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are now targeted...
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Kicking away the ladder
Exposes the attempts by developed countries to 'kick away the ladder' from developing countries trying to join the economic elite.
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The making of a status symbol
This book shows how Rolex has become the embodiment of individual success since the 1960s. This brand is much more than a watch: it is a narrative on a triple exceptionality: that of a product, that of an entrepreneur, and that of the wealthy consumers who wear it. A must-read for understanding t...
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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...
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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...
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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
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The future of employment in africa
The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare explores the major socio-economic trends that will define the face of the sub-Saharan continent in the next three decades. It mainly focuses on the need to massively create jobs due to unseen demographic growth. The book c...
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Ecosystems as models for restoring our economies, 2nd edition
Winner, International Impact Book Award 2026 Emerging from the fields of ecological restoration and economics, this interdisciplinary book delivers a clear path to restoring our economies in a way that speaks well to industry groups and business owners, students and the general public, and to po...
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The km cookbook
The KM Cookbook features success stories and strategies for organizations wanting to know more about Knowledge Management Standard ISO30401 – whether they intend to pursue certification, or simply seek to use it as a framework to review their existing programme and strategy.
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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 ...
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Markets and power in digital capitalism
Philipp Staab takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the virtual realm, exploring how digital surveillance and evaluation practices have infiltrated every aspect of our lives. Staab's compelling analysis challenges us to confront the realities of surveillance capitalism and the urge...
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Proscribing peace
Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of ‘linguistic ceasefire’ which becomes a central pre-conditio...
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The business of time
This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. It sheds new light on the way the global economy became established.
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Stories from small museums
This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience ...
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The brics and the financing mechanisms they created
An insider’s account of the BRICS process and of the negotiation and implementation of the monetary fund and development bank BRICS created
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A guide to trade credit insurance
This compact volume is a practical guide for anyone interested in Trade Credit Insurance. The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA) presents an approachable but detailed guide written collaboratively by carefully selected industry experts. The guide describes the ‘lifeli...
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Town is the garden chapbooks
How might a rural agricultural town rethink its relationship to food and to food growing in an era of increasing awareness of climate and ecological emergency? These beautifully produced books capture the diverse approaches to this question by the Town is the Garden project in the northeast of Sc...
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Energy storage
Energy storage is a key trend in the electricity industry across the globe, with one recent analysis predicting 942GW of storage (excluding pumped storage) will be developed by 2040.
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Advising the wealthy client
This comprehensive new handbook, featuring contributions by leading private client advisers, includes chapters on choosing a country of residence, buying substantial properties, risk and reputation management and an evaluation of the wealth infrastructure, the philanthropic framework and the futu...
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Joint operating agreements
There is also practical analysis of the key issues which apply to the operation of any JOA and the positions which are taken in the leading industry model form contracts. The perspectives of the operator and non-operator are addressed, along with consideration of the domestic and international st...
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Private equity exits
New to the third edition is analysis on emerging and established trends impacting exit terms, including early management liquidity, the prevalence of insurance solutions and related party or fund-to-fund exits.
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Ragnar nurkse (1907-2007)
‘Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today’ presents a selection of papers that casts new insight on Nurkse’s thought, and discusses his relevance for today.
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The lure of economic nationalism
The Lure of Economic Nationalism addresses the continued appeal of economic nationalism, placing it in both historical and contemporary contexts. It also considers its alternative, a rules-based, multilateral trading system.The book argues that going beyond zero-sum outcomes is better suited to a...
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Managing records
This records manager's handbook offers advice for both those already specializing in records management and other LIS professionals wishing to learn more on the topic. It should be useful to all LIS organizations aiming to improve their routines for managing records and other information resources.
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The chief data officer's playbook
This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer’s Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment. Written by two of the world’s leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in ‘data’, in ...
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Valuing your collection
This book addresses the issues around valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value, including practical advice on how to assign values and examples from museums, libraries and archives.
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Lehman brothers
Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman’s collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible lan...
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Mathematics for economists
An updated edition of the essential textbook for students of economics at every level, with comprehensive
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The abc of the projectariat
The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide.
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Reclaiming economics for future generations
Reclaiming economics for future generations argues that to build economies which serve people and the planet we need a diverse and decolonised curriculum. How does the global economy currently fail people and the planet, and why has mainstream economics knowledge inadequately addressed the pressi...
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Karl polanyi
This volume makes a significant contribution to the new economic sociology. It draws upon a Polanyian foundation but moves forward, developing neo-Polanyian agendas in relation to developments of contemporary capitalism.
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What a waste
Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform
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Degrowth
This introduction to the topic of "degrowth", an increasingly influential idea within ecological economics, assesses what it would take for an economy to transition to a position that enabled it to prosper without growth.
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The spectre of price inflation
An accessible and authoritative overview of the role of inflation in the modern economy, from its place in monetary policy and in money supply to its effects on everyday business.
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The japanese economy
A concise and up-to-date survey of Japan’s recent economic history, the economy's characteristic features and the challenges it continues to face, from economic stagnation to an ageing population.
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Money’s infrastructures
This book looks at money’s infrastructures as combinations of materiality, space, desire and political economy, by observing a cryptocurrency company in cross-border payments and situating it in the longer history of money’s technologies.
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Macro-governance theory
Introduces the Macro-Governance Index, a fourteen-component empirical framework correlating with human development at r = 0.97 across 170 countries, offering policymakers and researchers a reproducible tool for measuring and improving governance.
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Conglomerates, complexity and catastrophe in healthcare
This book profiles three large healthcare systems in the US that have gone bankrupt or currently face financial disaster. The volume develops a grounded theory of hospital bankruptcy and applies the model to these systems.
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Strategies and prompting in the accounting classroom
This book explores how artificial intelligence is transforming accounting education. It provides educators and institutions with practical frameworks, case studies, and implementation strategies to integrate AI into teaching, learning, and curriculum design, preparing the next generation of accou...
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The future of industrialization
The Future of Industrialization asks: How can industrial development evolve within planetary boundaries? Bringing together heads of state, global policymakers, UN leaders, CEOs, and leading scholars, this volume sets out a bold and forward-looking agenda for sustainable, inclusive, and innovation...
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Reactions to social and economic change 1750-1939
The middle of the eighteenth century up to the Second World War was a period of dramatic and rapid social and economic change in Britain. This volume collects five papers.
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Mining in a medieval landscape
This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.
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Population and marketing
This volume brings together the proceedings of two seminars that took place at Dartington Hall in the early 1970s. The first half concerns population, and the second considers marketing.
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Capital formation in south-west england
The formation of capital has long been a key element underpinning British economic history.
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The appreciation of film
This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on ‘...
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Cornish mines
This is the seventh volume in a series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining district in the country during this period, and this book shows the industry at its peak and through the first yea...
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Cecil hepworth and the rise of the british film industry 1899-1911
This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899-1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film makers, Cecil Hepworth.
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The history of honiton lace industry
Honiton lace is one of the world's great laces and this book for the first time tells the full story of the industry that produces it, from its beginnings in the sixteenth century to its demise in the twentieth. Over 100 photographs illustrate the history of design in Honiton lace as well as the ...
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Global interests in the arab gulf
This book sets out to examine why the world regards the Gulf as important. Chapters either treat the way in which individual countries view their vital interest in the Gulf, or deal with specific themes such as the question of militarization and the international arms-trade.
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The political economy of small tropical islands
A comparative study of a number of dependent and independent tropical islands and archipelagos. Its contributors seek to answer a number of vital questions affecting the security, political status and economic development of some of the world's smallest and most remote communities.
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The cornish mineral industry
This book commemorates the work of Jack Trounson, who was one of the leading twentieth-century authorities on Cornish mining and the greatest exponent of its future potential. He had an unparalleled ability to marshal a wealth of detail on the past working of mines and use it to point to places w...
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The effective ecologist
The Effective Ecologist covers the stuff that no-one told you about at university - how to develop your business and office-related skills to succeed in your career as a professional ecologist. It will provide you with the skills and effective behaviours within the workplace that will enable your...
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In the national interest?
This book analyses the forces that have sculpted Britain’s engagement with the world—from the Middle Ages to the age of AI. Moving beyond the cloistered calm of traditional diplomatic history, Black argues that foreign policy is not an abstract, rational science conducted in whispers by elites, b...
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Arbitration in the international energy industry
This title provides a practical, user-friendly overview of the essentials of international arbitration in the energy industry.
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On the seas of the indo-pacific
The seas of the Indo-Pacific are at the centre of the global trading economy, yet these waters present complex security threats that defy boundaries and conventional understandings of conflict or sovereignty. This book examines the challenges and threats for shipping along these trade networks.
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Remembering difficult pasts
How does memory both divide and unite an increasingly globalized European populace? This book presents a range of case studies across Europe to better understand how countries have grappled with their difficult pasts – whether traumatic, controversial, exclusionary, propagandistic or even embarra...
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Eclipsing the west
An incisive, data-driven look at the rise of China and India that considers how these new 'superstates' are reshaping the world order.
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Capitalism's handmaidens
A powerful mythology has grown up around the idea of women’s entrepreneurship. Langworthy offers a political economy of women’s enterprise and asks what value women’s enterprise gives, not to women, but to the institutions that have shaped them and placed them in the centre of the global imaginary.
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Pension saving in a gendered lifecourse
Hayley James seeks to challenge the hetero-patriarchal assumptions in pension provision. She examines how pension systems are not gender-neutral, and argues that, to resolve gendered inequalities in pensions, we need to change pension systems to better suit the realities of lived experience.
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Gesammelte schriften
This volume of Walter Eucken's Collected Writings presents a selection of letters from the years 1933 to 1945 that provide new insights into a range of personal and scholarly relationships and are an important source for the genesis of Eucken's two major works.
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Emil lederer (1882 – 1939)
Emil Lederer was among the most influential economic and social theorists of his time. He analyzed World War I, modern capitalism, and Weimar democracy, linking theoretical innovation with public engagement. Christian Schneebeck portrays him as a versatile and timely thinker.
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Environmental, social and governance in south africa and the uk
This book concerns a unique approach of assessing the high increasing rates of adherence to environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles through the perspective of an interdisciplinary, corporate governance approach.
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Why data culture matters
This book explains why strong data culture - not technology - is the key to successful data strategies. It offers practical frameworks, cultural components, and team-building tools to embed data-driven thinking. Read it to unlock innovation, trust, and organisational resilience through data.
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Climate finance
This book develops an expansive definition of climate finance and a critical framework for analysing its political economy. The authors highlight the diversity, scale and contradictions of climate finance entanglements – from funding renewable energy, putting a price on carbon, responsible invest...
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Human resource policy
‘Human Resource Policy’ describes how policies anchor HR practice and connect HR to organisational strategy.
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Karl marx's 'capital': a guide to volumes i–iii
This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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Reclaiming economic sovereignty in africa
This book has discussed the critical question of why the continent, despite being the most endowed place on the planet, with a diverse range of natural and human resources, has remained the most impoverished region on the planet. The book shows that this is largely due to lack of economic soverei...
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Europe’s unfinished currency
The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European Union is a unique historical experiment, as no monetary union of sovereign states has survived to date. This book explores how it could work, and develops scenarios of how things might evolve in case of failure.
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Learning leadership from dogs
The book uses the context and world of dogs to aid the reader's understanding of leadership. The reader will learn about leadership concepts and also about several breeds of dogs, across the world, including breeds such as the Bulldog, Dachshund, German Shepherd, Mastiff and Otterhound, among oth...
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The labyrinth of sustainability
‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ explores the growth of corporate sustainability in Latin America, offering actionable insights to business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics and journalists through 12 case studies that examine the challenges and opportunities facing companies across the reg...
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Development without aid
“Development Without Aid” provides a critique of foreign aid as a resource that is unable to provide the dynamism to propel the poorest countries out of poverty. It examines the rapid growth of the world’s diasporas as an alternative dynamic with potential to supersede foreign aid and drive a rea...
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