Global mobility of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, second edition

Co-published with STEP, this comprehensive new edition features insights from leading private client advisers across key jurisdictions worldwide.

Deglobalization

Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the world’s politics and economics over the last 40 years. This is an invaluable overview of one of the most important phenomena of our age.

World film locations: los angeles

World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-c...

Introductory notes on planetary science

This textbook provides a physics-based tour of introductory planetary science concepts for undergraduate students majoring in astronomy or planetary science. It shows how principles and equations learned in introductory physics classes can be applied to study many aspects of planets, including dy...

Cmos image sensors

The book describes the operating principles of CMOS images sensors, their architecture and performance, on-chip and external electronics, and characterisation techniques. Most of the book explores the pinned photodiode pixel, the experimental methods for image sensor characterisation, and present...

Product counsel

Product Counsel: A Practical Framework for Advising Throughout the Product Life Cycle offers a pioneering exploration into the emerging discipline of product law. Authored by Olga V. Mack and Adrienne Go, this comprehensive guide equips readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate t...

Family offices

Prepared in association with STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, this new edition of Family Offices has been fully updated and features a number of new chapters, all written by the leading experts in the field.

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.

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.

The campaign for nuclear disarmament

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) began in 1957 with a small group of public figures and grew into a mass movement. Martin Shaw details CND’s rise, the activists involved, the tensions around direct action, and the culture and social groups that the campaign mobilized to "ban the bomb".

Orbital angular momentum states of light (second edition)

This book provides an in-depth introduction to modelling of long-range propagation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes as well as more general structured light beams through atmospheric turbulence.

Introduction to metalens optics

This book provides an overview of the basic optics of the metalens, providing an introduction for students, scientists and engineers. The scope of this book is to introduce the optical fundamentals and basic optical design methods of a m etalens, where light propagation can be modelled by simple,...

Green by design

This book offers an in-depth examination of bio-polymeric materials, emphasizing their interfacial science, including key functional groups, physical phenomena, and interactions within specific environments. It highlights these materials as sustainable alternatives that go beyond merely replacing...

Astrophysical recipes

Astrophysical Recipes: The art of AMUSE delves into the ways in which computational science and astrophysics are connected and how the bridge between observation and theory are understood. This book provides a unique outline of the basic principles of performing simulations for astrophysical phen...

Silicene-based layered materials

This book explores in detail the most up-to-date research in silicene-related systems, including few-layer silicene, sliding bilayer silicene, adatom-doped silicene, atom substituted silicene and silicene with substrate.

Nuclear materials science (second edition)

This book provides an overview of the intersection of nuclear engineering and materials science at a level approachable by advanced students from materials, engineering and physics. The text explains the unique aspects needed in the design and implementation of materials for use in demanding nucl...

Problems and solutions in rotational mechanics

This book is an extensive resource covering many concepts and topics within rotational mechanics, including over more than four hundred examples and problems with solutions. This book is an ideal resource for aspiring students looking to master the concepts of rotational mechanics, as well as lec...

Quantum mechanics of the diatomic molecule (second edition)

In this book, the authors describe how quantum mechanics can be used to predict and analyze diatomic molecule spectra in a gaseous state by discussing the calculation of their spectral line intensities. The book provides a comprehensive overview on diatomic molecule fundamentals before emphasisin...

Agri-food supply chains in southern and eastern europe

This chapter describes the fundamental characteristics of the food systems of Eastern and Southern Europe, paying particular attention to their agro-export nature and the late predominance of large-scale distribution companies in their markets. The chapter then reviews the unsustainability of thi...

Company law, 3rd edition

Legal operations in the age of ai and data

Combining both theory and practice from industry leaders, insight is provided from legal tech, in-house legal departments, law firms, and academia. Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data is your guide to navigating the fast-evolving landscape of AI in the legal field with step-by-step practic...

Effective practice group leadership

As firms compete increasingly at practice group level, leaders are being asked to run their groups like business units; to develop and implement a strategic plan that supports the goals and competitiveness of the firm; and to coordinate and lead their partners to enhance the efficiency, performan...

Business families and family businesses

This comprehensive handbook makes essential reading for all practitioners who advise business families, including lawyers, accountants, financial advisers and wider family business advisers.

Essential reads on family offices

Contributions have been carefully curated from the prestigious archive of The International Family Offices Journal, co-published with STEP, and the Special Report, Family Business and Responsible Wealth Ownership.

European securitisation

European Securitisation offers a comprehensive overview of the key structural and geographical aspects of securitisation transactions across Europe.

Private trust companies

This title's content shines a light on organisational and operational issues such as designing a private trust company’s ownership structure, implementing proper internal controls, outsourcing services and working with professional advisers.

Carve-out m&a transactions

This practical guide, edited by Robbie McLaren at Latham & Watkins, features contributions by specialists on subjects linked to the structuring and execution of carve-out transactions and provides an invaluable insight into the legal, regulatory and practical elements in play.

Ai and the legal profession, second edition

The second edition of AI and the Legal Profession: Transforming the Future of Law acts as a guide, helping readers navigate this new frontier by delving into the impact of AI on the legal industry and the transformative possibilities it presents.

Autonomous navigation and path planning for agricultural robots

Navigation and path planning are essential technologies for increasing the productivity of agriculture machine systems performing modern precision agriculture tasks. Production agriculture requires efficient methods for complete coverage of agricultural landscapes to complete the critical product...

Crafted with pride

This collection explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. It includes contributions from academics, artists, activists, curators, and heritage professionals. The first book of its kind, it weaves together an important web connecting queerness, c...

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.

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...

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.

A theory of thrills, sublime and epiphany in literature

A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important b...

Bulgaria in british foreign policy, 1943–1949

This book explores Britain’s involvement in Bulgaria between 1943 and 1949, and by integrating little-known Communist Party documents with British diplomatic records, offers a new understanding of the origins of the Cold War in Bulgaria and the Balkans. 

Contemporary black urban music

The examination of CBUM/Hip-Hop as a global-force factors highly in this course. A wide range of topics will be presented to the student in preparation for written essays, philosophical flexibility and assessment.

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.

Feminist political economy

A much-needed introduction to key topics in feminist political economy, this book takes a global perspective and engages in debates that are relevant for the Global North and/or the Global South. Essential reading for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of power relations in the economy.

Criminal procedure and punishment

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders. Aimed at students, it examines not only the law and procedure of criminal justice and punishment, bu...

Coronations and defenestrations

How do Tory leadership elections work? Lee Evans takes a lively look at how the Conservatives appoint (and depose) their leader, from the early history of the party to the present day.

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.

Working for each other

Deryn Thomas challenges the anti-work narrative by showing work not to be an individual need, but a collective one, a social activity that we do together with others, in response to their needs. Recognising this role is key to reimagining the promise of work as part of a good life.

Constructing female terrorism

Reports of female political violence invariably portray the perpetrators as anomalous intruders in a masculine realm. Their challenge to the gender order is thereby contained. This book explores the representations of politically violent women in the UK and France to demonstrate this in practice.

Growth, democracy or climate action?

Governments are confronted with a tradeoff between growth, liberal democracy and effective climate action. They cannot achieve all three objectives at the same time. The authors consider which one has to give.

Crime, space and place

A critical introduction to the geographies of crime. The authors examine crime through the lenses of space and place including topics such as corruption, transnational organised crime and ecocide. This is a forward-looking book that enhances our geographical understandings of crime in the twenty-...

Optimising breeding of dairy cows

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in dairy cow breeding, focussing on recent advances in the use of genomics, phenomics and other ‘omics’ technologies to improve the precision and applicability of dairy cow breeding.

Choreographies

Choreographer Jacky Lansley has been practicing and performing for more than four decades. In Choreographies, she offers unique insight into the processes behind independent choreography and paints a vivid portrait of a rigorous practice that combines dance, performance art, visuals and a close a...

A critical political economy of inflation

The book is an original critical economy account of the meaning, causes and consequences of inflation.

Shaping global cultures through screenwriting

A powerful testament to the impact of an international collection of female screenwriters, this is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others. It brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping the global cultural landscape. ...

Understanding and utilising soil microbiomes for a more sustainable agriculture

This collection summarises the wealth of recent research in understanding the fundamental importance of soil microbiomes in optimising soil and crop health. The book reviews advances in analytical techniques, the composition and dynamics of soil microbial communities and how they can be enhanced ...

Between the spreadsheets

Everyone talks about data quality issues, but not the consequences. From the top to the bottom of an organisation, everyone should understand the impact of dirty data and how to spot it. Being an entirely revised new edition, this book will show you how.

50 library lessons and ideas

This handbook will provide school librarians and teachers with ideas on how to establish library lessons and events that will encourage reading in children and young people. Written in a clear and concise manner, it aims to be a step-by-step guide to facing new challenges and finding new readers.

Whose sovereignty?

In this carefully argued case for a federal Europe, Céline Spector proposes that national sovereignty has become increasingly untenable as mechanisms perpetuating fiscal, social and environmental inequities transcend borders. Indeed, in the face of Russian aggression and America’s apparent retrea...

Oil and gas

Oil and gas remain foundational to the global economy, and the technical, commercial and legal frameworks that enable their exploration, development and monetisation are intricate and highly specialised. Now in its fully updated fourth edition, this best-selling volume provides a clear, practic...

Developing talent and managing people in the family enterprise

Developing Talent and Managing People in the Family Enterprise explores the unique people-related challenges that families and their advisers face.

Online dispute resolution

Written by Max Barrett, a judge of the High Court of Ireland, Online Dispute Resolution: Law’s Future in the Digital Age looks at the impact of digitalisation on legal services provision and considers how, increasingly, a worldwide revolution in dispute resolution is unfolding, with many legal di...

The art and craft of judgment writing

In this second edition of The Art and Craft of Judgment Writing, Max Barrett, an experienced and practising judge working in Ireland, will not only enhance your judgment writing skills but elevate them to a new level of clarity, precision and style.

Islamic finance

This unique title is essential reading whether you are already engaged in Islamic financing transactions or interested in understanding the Islamic finance market and the structures underpinning the world's fastest-growing finance sector.

Crypto assets in trusts and foundations

User-friendly and comprehensive, it will make essential reading for trustees, board members of foundations, wealth managers, lawyers, tax professionals, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and, indeed, anyone keen to embrace the emerging landscape of crypto assets.

The strategic positioning of academic libraries

The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries explores the influence of trends in higher education and the wider world on the position of academic libraries. It complements an analysis of library strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with ten positioning strategies to provide an esse...

Women and the law

Originally published in 1984, Women And The Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. It went on to inspire a legion of women lawyers and feminist legal rulings, from the Family Law ...

Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors

The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to ot...

The clinical legal education handbook

The Clinical Legal Education Handbook is a good practice guide and practical resource for those engaged in the design and delivery of clinical legal education programmes at university law schools. Primarily aimed at clinics in England and Wales, it is likely to have content that is of interest to...

The glasgow sugar aristocracy

This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...

The poets laureate of the long eighteenth century, 1668–1813

In the eighteenth century the office of the poet laureate of Britain and the British court were evolving and entwined with one another. This book examines the office’s institutional changes and public reception, the mechanics of each laureate’s appointment, and the works they produced before and ...

Waterscapes: reservoirs, environment and identity in modern england and wales

This book explores the impacts of reservoir construction and management in England and Wales from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century. Taking a comparative approach with case studies from Leeds’s Washburn Valley, Liverpool’s Vyrnwy Reservoir and Birmingham’s Elan Reservoir, it examines...

Radical collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions

This volume looks at the role that archivists and librarians play in compiling collections – do they “curate” history? To what extent are they gatekeepers of knowledge? It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal an...

Innovations in teaching history

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on ...

The victoria history of hampshire: dummer and kempshott

Dummer, a small parish on the chalk downlands south of Basingstoke, has a rich history that includes famous faces such as Jane Austen, Joseph Arch, and Sarah Ferguson. It was also the setting for the Swing Riots and a place of religious change from the unusual level of protestant non-conformity i...

Providing for the poor

The Old Poor Law dispensed benefits to paupers in a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. Providing for the Poor re-examines the micro-politics of poverty in the long eighteenth century. It bridges the gaps in our understanding of the experiences of people across the social spectru...

Voice, silence and gender in south africa's anti-apartheid struggle

Tracing the political life of Masabatha Loate, a young black woman activist who testified at the trial of the ‘Soweto Eleven’ in 1978, this book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of voice, speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynam...

Becoming a historian

Writing history is an art and a craft, which can sometimes make it feel intimidating. Becoming a Historian debunks the myths and demystifies the world of research for both research students and independent scholars. It outlines techniques to help design large-scale research projects, demonstrates...

The victoria history of herefordshire: cradley

Drawing extensively on local archival sources, this volume charts the social, economic, religious and political history of Cradley in Herefordshire. It explores the fragmented model of land ownership and the development of a powerful body of wealthy yeomanry that shaped the distinctive character ...

Television drama in spain and latin america

Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the English-speaking wo...

Freedom seekers

Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in 17th-century London. It was the joint winner of the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Ab...

The family firm

The Family Firm is the first major historical analysis of the way Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new public relations strategy in the period 1932-53. It argues that the monarchy’s deliberate elevation of a more informal and vulnerable family-centre...

Giving birth in eighteenth-century england

This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. Utilising an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries and recipe books, the volume explores the rituals of chil...

The signature in law

Drawing on cases from common law jurisdictions across the world, this book demonstrates that judges expanded the meaning of a signature as technologies developed and were used in unanticipated ways. It explores the judicial development of the concept of the signature from the thirteenth century t...

The victoria history of leicestershire: lutterworth

From the controversial theological writer John Wyclif to the origins of the jet engine, the history of Lutterworth, a small market town in the south-west of the county, has been both rich and varied. This work charts the evolution and development of Lutterworth from small beginnings before the No...

Democratising history

Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes tha...

The social and political life of latin american infrastructures

This cross-disciplinary book makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics. It captures the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures, exploring irrigation networks in Peru to...

Capitalism, colonisation and the ecocide-genocide nexus

This timely publication examines the drivers of the ecologically induced genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples in the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the genocidal ...

Shaping migration between europe and latin america: new perspectives and challenges

Focusing on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful examination of their changing international migration patterns details their responses to significant demographic changes and new migration trends. The volume exami...

Brazil: essays on history and politics

This volume is published to mark the 80th birthday of Leslie Bethell, a major figure in Brazilian studies. It consists of seven of his essays on important themes in modern Brazilian history and politics. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in ...

The life and writings of maria teresa de sá nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira, revealing how her fearless writing challenged colonial power and gave voice to the marginalized in Mozambique and Portugal. A vital contribution to Lusophone postcolonial studies.

Navigating data standards in business strategy

This book is designed to help companies create and apply data principles for a positive impact on business strategy and growth, providing stability outside of the ever-changing technology, data, and legal landscapes.

Philosophical embarrassment

This book explores moments of philosophical embarrassment, focusing on Hume and Wittgenstein, who recognized how their critiques challenged the very foundations of philosophy. It examines how figures like the Vienna Circle and Quine redefined philosophy’s aims and how the later Wittgenstein warne...

Journalism ethics in eastern europe

This textbook looks into the current ethical challenges of public communication in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and addresses some of the most pressing issues of journalism, including political and corporate pressures, declining commercial revenues, the rise of citizen journal...

The intellect handbook of men’s fashion

Expands the field by centering decolonization, global perspectives, and intersectionality. With 34 chapters from fashion scholars, it examines how masculinity is fashioned, contested, and expressed across cultures and histories. This essential resource challenges conventional narratives and opens...

Resilience and recovery of hospitality and tourism

A comprehensive guide exploring resilience strategies in tourism and hospitality, focusing on leadership, sustainability and data-driven recovery in a post-pandemic world.