Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are some risks regulated aggressively and others responded to only modestly? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? These key questions are explored in The Government of Risk. This book looks at a number [...]

The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government institutions have tremendous negative effects on the[...]

Rev. ed. of: Occupational health services / Tee L. Guidotti, John W.F. Cowell, Geoffrey G. Jamieson; with the assistance and contribution of Alan L. Engelberg. c1989.[...]

This book fills a previously unfilled niche on the popular subjects of climate change and global warming. Rather than evaluating whether or not the problem exists, Challenging Climate Change takes the stance that global warming is an ever-present reality in today's environment and systematically out[...]

The interest in Business Continuity has gained significant momentum in the last few years, especially with the Y2K non-event, the increasing corporate dependence on computer systems and the growing levels of devastation associated with recent disasters. This book takes an organization interested in [...]

A 'social trap' is a situation where individuals, groups or organisations are unable to cooperate owing to mutual distrust and lack of social capital, even where cooperation would benefit all. Examples include civil strife, pervasive corruption, ethnic discrimination, depletion of natural resources [...]

A colorfully written account of a crime genius follows the life and career of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, throughout his tempestuous career as an underworld figure, introducing readers to the grimy world that clung to the glittering Jazz Age of New York City like a bar[...]

This genre-bending eBook bundle proves that not only is Karin Slaughter ';one of the best crime novelists in America' (The Washington Post), she's one of today's very best writers, period. From the hallucinatory noir novella Go Deep to the twisted short stories ';Necessary Women' and ';Remmy Rothste[...]

In this book the authors tackle the concept of 'quality of government' (QoG) both conceptually and empirically and apply their focus to EU countries and regions. In a pioneering empirical effort, they map out regional QoG for the first time for 172 NUTS 1 and 2 regions throughout 18 countries in the[...]

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings. * Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions. * Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alt[...]