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Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call — or Skype — home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries, creating powerful cross-border networks. In Borderless Economics, Robert Guest, The Economist's Business Editor, travels through dozens of countries and 44 American states, observing how these networks create wealth, spread ideas and foster innovation. He shows how: * Brainy Indians in America collaborate with brainy Indians in India to build $70 fridges and $300 houses * Young Chinese study in the West and then return home (where they're known as «sea turtles»), infecting China with ideas that will eventually turn it democratic * The so-called «brain drain» — the flow of educated migrants from poorcountries to rich ones — actually reduces global poverty *America's unique ability to attract and absorb migrants lets it tap into the energy of all the world's diaspora networks. So despite its current woes, if the United States keeps its borders open, it will remain the world's most powerful nation indefinitely. With on-the-ground reporting from Asia, Africa, Europe and even Idaho, this book examines how migration, for the all the disruption it causes, makes the world wealthier and happier.

A fresh new edition of Shakespeare's ambiguous, bittersweet fairy tale, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Gregory Doran and Stephen Fried, and actor Guy Henry, looks at specific productions in the play's history, and an illuminating introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate.

An accessibleand up to date guide toone hundredof World Cinema's most interesting and influential cult movies. Covering a diverse range of genresand films from 1920 to the present day, this lavishly illustrated volume includes entries on films ranging from 'This is Spinal Tap' to 'Donnie Darko'.

A comprehensive and accessible guide to the academic and practical skills needed in the study of law, including essential techniques for legal research, reasoning, writing, advocacy, negotiation, interviewing and advising. Also features an extensive section on career development.

This book is a major new introduction to international relations/global politics. Written by a leading textbook author, it is engaging, stimulating and forward-looking, covering all the topics and theory students require at an introductory level.

The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors. This eighth edition of Employment Law has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the area, most notably in the form of the Equality Act 2010. In what is one of the fastest moving areas in the law today, this popular text steers the reader confidently through the complexities. It is an ideal companion — both for law students and for those studying employment law or labour law as part of a business-related degree programme. The enhanced layout includes end of chapter summaries, exercises and further reading lists.

A new edition of this popular and highly respected text, providing a concise and readable guide to contract law for those embarking on a first degree or conversion course in law. Fully revised and updated, the book combines a clear and straightforward account of the basic ruleswith coverage of many of the subject's more complex issues.

A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands — including Nike, Toyota and Motorola — Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases. These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing issue facing business and thought leaders today: how to practice capitalism in a way that satisfies the need for both profit and a healthy, sustainable planet. Mainwaring provides case studies from companies such as P&G, Walmart, Starbucks, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Toyota, Nike, Whole Foods, Patagonia, and Nestle as well as a bold plan for how corporations need to rethink their strategies.

With the accelerating integration of China into the global economy, there is a thirst to understand Chinese leadership styles and how Chinese employees like to be managed. There is no doubt that China can be a difficult and risky market for foreign businesses, with many surprises, disappointments and frustrations. China is certainly a special challenge. This engaging new work from Barbara Xiaoyu Wang and Harold Chee emerged out of their experiences of living and working in China both as managers and trainers of Chinese managers and leaders extensively over the last 12 years. The authors experienced and witnessed many faux pas by foreign companies and businessmen and often a major contributing factor was the many assumptions that foreign companies have about not only the Chinese marketplace but how to manage Chinese employees. What are the Chinese leadership styles, the patterns of communications, phenomenon of 'face', 'guanxi', and 'harmony', etc.? This book will dispel the myths that have built up in the West about Chinese Leadership. It has a practical focus and provides a framework for executives and managers to ask the right questions, make the right decisions and take the right strategies.

Destined to become a life saver for international students everywhere, this book provides clear, comprehensive guidance for students embarking on postgraduate study at a western university. Helping to maximise your chances of academic success, topics include challenges such as critical thinking, research, writing and speaking skills.

The palgrave macmillan law masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, straightforward and comprehensive introductions to the main subject areas, all written by experienced and respected authors. This seventh edition of Land Law has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in the subject. In addition, the content has been substantially enlarged and restructured so as to aid understanding. It is an ideal companion for students studying land law as part of a law degree or the GDL/CPE and for students taking the subject as part of a surveying or estate management course. The enhanced layout includes end of chapter summaries, self-test exercises and suggestions for further reading. A comprehensive companion website — featuring regular updates, model answers, a helpful glossary and advice on how to succeed in exams — is available at www.palgrave.com/law/cursleydavy.

The book provides an accessible guide to the major concepts, terminology, theories, processes and agencies that concern those in the field of criminology and criminal justice. Arranged alphabetically and providing comprehensive explanations, the volume also acts as an important point of reference and revision aid.

An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality. The book covers texts, contexts and criticism in an accessible and user-friendly format.

This is a detailed and concise handbook clarifying all the major terms needed for a thorough understanding of key research methodology concepts in business and management. An invaluable guide for students at all levels seeking assistance with project work, research proposals, dissertations and theses. Includes case studies and suggestions for further reading.

Economics for Business is a rigorous introductory text, full of international examples and cases enabling students to grasp complex economic theory and understand its relevance in real-world business scenarios. Students will enjoy the clarity and wit of the writing style and benefit from the quirky learning features and illustrations.

The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors. This second edition of Trusts Law has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in the subject. The authors bring a unique combination of academic knowledge and hands-on commercial experience to the explanation of their subject. For this edition, these practical insights have been further bolstered by the inclusion of a new chapter showing the steps involved in the creation of a trust, illustrated by examples of actual documentation. This is an ideal companion to the subject for both law undergraduate and GDL/CPE students. The enhanced format includes end of chapter summaries, self-test exercises and suggestions for further reading.

The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors. The seventh edition of Criminal Law provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of criminal liability and to the main criminal offences, together with insights into the controversies and debates that surround the subject. The text is written in a clear and engaging style, making the fundamental concepts easy to grasp. This is an ideal companion for both law undergraduate and GDL/CPE students. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent case law and statutory developments. The enhanced layout includes Hot Topic sections analysing the controversial cases of recent years, plus end of chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading.

The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors. This eighth edition of Legal Method provides a lively introduction to the nature of the English legal system and its sources, and to the techniques which lawyers use when handling those sources. The text assumes no prior knowledge and makes its content accessible by clarity of expression rather than by dilution of content. In addition to more conventional sources, writers as varied as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and T. S. Eliot are cited. This is an ideal course companion for both law undergraduate and GDL/CPE students. The new enhanced layout includes end of chapter summaries and self-test exercises.

What does it mean to acquire a language? What is considered a second language in multilingual settings? This practical and comprehensive guide provides an opportunity to consider these issues, providing easy access to concise definitions of key terms and concepts in the study of Second Language Acquisition.

Language Testing: Theories and Practices offers, a coherent overview of some of the key issues currently dominating the language testing profession. By bringing together a large group of authors from across the world who are actively engaged in language testing in different ways, from the practitioner to the academic, the book succeeds in highlighting a number of central ideas, the interpretation of which is to modern testing. These ideas (validation, localization, professionalization, reflexivity and politicization) are central to the chapters, which offer the reader an opportunity a glimpse of how language testers envisage the discipline in the coming years. The work included here will appeal to the expert and non-expert reader. The authors present their ideas and evidences in an informative yet accessible style and offer a unique glimpse of the broad range of interests, methodologies and concerns that define language testing.

Arranged alphabetically, this accessible glossary provides a quick source of reference for a range of readers, from students of linguistics to educators who need help navigating the vocabulary of Bilingualism. Cross-referenced throughout, this guide considers a range of concepts that relate to the interdisciplinary nature of the field.

'Writing in the Disciplines' (WiD) is a growing field in which discipline-based academics, writing developers, and learning technologists collaborate to help students succeed as subject specialists. This book places WiD in its theoretical and cultural contexts and reports on initiatives taking place at a range of UK higher education institutions. Also includes surveys of current developments and scholarship in the US, Australia, Europe and elsewhere, making it of interest to both a UK and an international audience.

Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines several central patterns of sentential complementation in a number of electronic corpora to shed light on the emergence and spread of innovative constructions in relatively recent English.

DRAFT FROM REVISED EDITION This new revised edition of Applied Econometrics is an ideal text for students who are looking for a reliable and practical grounding in the subject. Students are introduced to the various forms of econometric data and how they are formatted in electronic media, and shown how to transfer and use the data in the most popular software packages. Each chapter begins with a clear theoretical overview followed by a step-by-step approach to using the software. Mathematics has been kept to a minimum but when used is accompanied by helpful expanations. The book is accompanied by a website www.palgrave.com/economics/asteriou/data.htm that includes all the necessary files for reproduction of all the econometric work that is carried out throughout the text.