
Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of...
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
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Stunning two-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's...

Dreams of Exile: Robert Louis Stevenson : A Biography
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Variously seen as a writer of adventure stories for the young, a skilled essayist, a poet, a frail...

JB -- An Unlikely Spanish Don: The Life & Times of Professor John Brande Trend
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John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a...

Moving the AEC Beyond: Managing Domestic Consensus for Community ? Building: 2015
Siew Yean Tham and Sanchita Basu Das
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The ten Southeast Asian economies reached a milestone on 31 December 2015, when they announced the...

Negotiating Financial Agreement in East Asia: Surviving the Turbulence
Kaewkamol Karen Pitakdumrongkit
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Every international negotiation bears a risk of collapse, as even among like-minded countries,...

Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression
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The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record...

Fintech Innovation: From Robo-Advisors to Goal Based Investing and Gamification
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A survival guide for the FinTech era of banking FinTech Innovation examines the rise of financial...

Foundations of Scenario Planning: The Story of Pierre Wack
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Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten...

From Corporate to Social Media: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in Media and Communication Industries
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The corporate and the social are crucial themes of our times. In the first decade of the...