In Counterinsurgency Law, William Banks and several distinguished contributors explore from an interdisciplinary legal and policy perspective the multiple challenges that counterinsurgency operations pose today to the rule of law - international, humanitarian, human rights, criminal, and domestic. A[...]

The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) carry out their mission to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth based on the advice of professional economists. But as Sarah Babb argues in "Behind the Development Banks", these organizations have also been indelibly shaped by W[...]

The cultural industries are widely promoted as a solution to problems of de-industrialization and economic crisis - offering Western economies new jobs and sources of revenue. Furthermore, the cultural industries workplace, with its seemingly fluid and informal structures and boundless opportunities[...]

Ethics and Values in Social Work offers a clear and systematic account of professional ethics in relation to social work practice, framed within a global context. Having sold over 38,000 copies across its lifetime, this is a thoroughly revised edition of a modern social work classic from a leading i[...]

National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime[...]

The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense intellectual engagement while Banks's mains[...]

The Evolution of Central Banks employs a wide range of historical evidence and reassesses current monetary analysis to argue that the development of non-profit-maximizing and noncompetitive central banks to supervise and regulate the commercial banking system fulfils a necessary and natural function[...]

First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-Francois de Lezay-Marnesia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio. Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become withou[...]

Four tales of supernatural romance and desire include "The Forgotten One" by Ronda Thompson, Susan Squires's "The Gift," "Ride the Night Wind" by L. A. Banks, and Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Until Death Do Us Part," in which, after five hundred years, an immortal Esperetta is reunited with her husband, a Da[...]

Far too busy to get involved with men or marriage, Cate Madigan, a member of a large and wacky Irish family, spends her time in school, earning her teacher's degree, and working as a bartender in Boston's South End, but her life changes forever when she encounters ex-cop Kellen McBride, a man who qu[...]

Just one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought she'd tasted victory. Orchestrating detente between the warring factions of the supernatural world had nearly cost her life - but it also opened the door to a future with Max Hunter, her mate and fellow Shadow Wolf. Until now. A p[...]