Sandra Halperin and Oliver Heath take a step-by-step approach to research methods, guiding the reader through how to ask and answer questions about the world of politics and international relations. They present practical advice on how to be critical and rigorous, both in terms of evaluating the research of others and doing your own research project

In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the history of warfare. Black takes the reader through the limits and prospects of culture as a tool for analyzing war, while also demonstrating the necessity of maintaining the context of alternative analytical matrices, such as technology

"The Internet and Business English" is designed to help business English teachers understand and exploit the World Wide Web. Key features include: a comprehensive introduction to the Internet; learner training activities; practical lesson activities; ideas for teacher trainers; a data bank of sites for ESP (English for Special Purposes); technical advice; and a glossary of terms

This yearbook presents a comprehensive information and a unique historical record of development in the United Arab Emirates

Asia Rising takes stock of Asian economies in the aftermath of the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and evaluates challenges and opportunities for continued growth. It opens with an editorial overview; continues with thematic chapters on a variety of topics linked by a common concern with investment; and concludes with country studies of Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China, Thailand and the Philippines

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in the past decade, and the turn of these states towards despotism

This new and unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. Advanced Modelling in Finance provides a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s

The fourteen - all new - stories show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of charaster, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tail

This timely book provides an in-depth analysis of population aging and the region-wide demographic transition towards an older population. It also presents concrete policy options for tackling these challenges