Bj: 702 books

This volume of Research in Global Strategic Management, the first under the new editorship of William Newburry, provides new perspectives on headquarters-subsidiary relationships in the context of the contemporary multinational corporation. By focusing on the role and the management of subsidiaries,...

Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results. This work is on the Global...

Ein Spaziergänger findet im norwegischen Wald ein totes Mädchen, das mit einem Springseil an einem Baum aufgehängt wurde und ein Schild um den Hals trägt: „Ich reise allein.“ Kommissar Holger Munch beschließt, sich der Hilfe seiner Kollegin Mia Krüger zu versichern, deren Spürsinn unschlagbar...

Aus einem Jugendheim bei Oslo verschwindet ein siebzehnjähriges Mädchen. Einige Zeit später wird sie tot im Wald gefunden – gebettet auf Federn, umkränzt von einem Pentagramm aus Lichtern und mit einer weißen Blume zwischen den Lippen. Die Ermittlungen des Teams um Kommissar Holger Munch und...

This book for the first time brings together considerations upon the feminine in relation to Paul Ricœur’s thinking. The collection of renowned scholars who have published extensively on Ricoeur and promising younger scholars together shows the rich potential of his thought for feminist theory,...

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to denote spaces and moments in which the taken-for-granted...

Does God really care about your sex life? In a culture saturated with sex, many find it hard to believe the Creator of the universe cares about this facet of their lives. Others are confused about where to draw the line to avoid going “too far.” Married or single, you need to know...

Are you ready for battle? Whether you realize it or not, you live in the midst of spiritual combat. Your enemy, the devil, is dangerous, destructive, and determined to keep you from effectively serving God. In order to defend yourself against his attacks, you need to know how the enemy operates. Through...

The present book is a work of fiction spun around the following piece of known western history. Yellowed newspaper clippings from a remote date in the last century note that three bandits charged with murder were released for lack of evidence from Juarez Jail, Mexico. Those same file clippings also...

Jonathan Grimm had been a bounty hunter for far too long. His joints were creaking and his reflexes were slowing. He needed one big one, and then he could retire. It looked like he could do it, too, when he learned that a bunch of hardcases had broken out of Austen jail. He weighed it up. If he roped...

He had two wanted men on his list – the one hiding out in a log cabin somewhere up in the Ouatchita Mountains, and the other trying to cover his back-trail by mixing with the miners at Yellowrock, way out the other side of the territory. That meant a passel of riding and just maybe a passel of gunning...

Bounty-hunter Jonathan Grimm—the man they called the Reaper—took a break from his man-hunting to attend a family wedding. But a shooting on the doorstep hurled him back into his man-chasing role. Then, what started out as a straightforward chase ran him smack into hard-case gunmen aiming to cut...

This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant. It expands on a new theory that describes the evolutionary trajectory leading to conscious life forms. In short, the evidence suggests that consciousness first evolved...

This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to terrorism.