Principles of Strategic Management

The Employment Contract and the Changed World of Work

Human Resource Management in Russia
Edited by Michel E. Domsch, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany and Tatjana Lidokhover, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany
April 2008 * 358 pages Hardback * 0 7546 4876 1 / 978-0-7546-4876-5 * $114.95
Despite the widespread and large-scale changes in Russian business, to date little serious attention has been paid to the nature and development of the Human Resource function. This book redresses this gap by providing a detailed introduction into the current economic developments taking place in Russia, alongside a full length examination of the new role of the HR department in Russian enterprises, and the influence of national politics on HR practice.
 
The Cooperative Movement
Globalization from Below
Richard C. Williams, Regis University, USA
April 2008 * 252 pages
Hardback * 0 7546 7038 4 / 978-0-7546-7038-4 * $99.95
Richard Williams surveys the history of the cooperative movement from its modern origins in the 18th century and deals with the theory of cooperation, as contrasted with the 'Standard Economic Model', based on competition. The book analyzes the successes and challenges of the cooperative movement as an alternative to the global neo-colonialism and imperialism that now characterizes free-market capitalist approaches to globalization.

The Revival of Private Enterprise in China
Edited by Shuanglin Lin, University of Nebraska, USA, Peking University, China and Shunfeng Song, University of Nevada, USA
April 2008 * 306 pages Hardback * 0 7546 4892 3 / 978-0-7546-4892-5 * $114.95
This book examines the impact on China's private enterprises by obstacles to growth (such as borrowing restrictions, high taxes, ineffective legal protection and lack of technical and information support) and contrastingly examines how private enterprises can help China mitigate its macroeconomic problems, such as unemployment, income inequality, financial disintermediation and cyclical boom and bust.

Emotional Geographies
New in Paperback Edited by Joyce Davidson and Mick Smith, Queen's University, Canada and Liz Bondi, Edinburgh University, UK March 2008 * 256 pages Paperback * 0 7546 7107 0 / 978-0-7546-7107-7 * $49.95
Bringing together well-established interdisciplinary scholars and a new generation of researchers, this volume presents a wide range of innovative studies of fundamentally important questions of emotion. The book demonstrates the richness that an interdisciplinary engagement with the emotionality of socio-spatial life generates. Available in hardback.

The New Wealth of Cities
City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave
John Montgomery, Urban Cultures Ltd, UK
April 2008 * 466 pages Hardback * 0 7546 4789 7 / 978-0-7546-4789-8 * $99.95
In The New Wealth of Cities, John Montgomery provides a long overdue look at the dynamics of the city. Original and wide-ranging, this book will be a definitive resource on city economies and urban planning, explaining why it is that cities develop over time in periods of propulsive growth and bouts of decline.

Stretching Beyond the Horizon
A Multiplanar Theory of Spatial Planning and Governance
Jean Hillier, Newcastle University, UK  April 2008 * 416 pages Hardback * 0 7546 4749 8 / 978-0-7546-4749-2 * $79.95
In this innovative work Jean Hillier develops a new theory for students and researchers of spatial planning and governance which is grounded primarily in the work of Gilles Deleuze. Using empirical examples from England and Australia, she explores what spatial planning and urban management practices could look like if they were to become along Deleuzean lines and suggests alternative framings for spatial practice.

Atlantic Reverberations
French Representations of an American Presidential Election Paul C. Adams, University of Texas at Austin, USA March 2008 * 252 pages Hardback * 0 7546 7023 6 / 978-0-7546-7023-0 * $89.95
The 2004 US election provided French citizens and their media with a springboard for re-conceiving 'self' and 'other'. By examining how the French media - newspapers, television, the internet and scholarly research - represented the election from a critical geopolitical perspective, this book provides the first major in-depth study of views of the US in contemporary foreign media.

Accommodating Cultural Diversity
Edited by Stephen Tierney, University of Edinburgh, UK April 2008 * 250 pages Hardback * 0 7546 2603 2 / 978-0-7546-2603-9 * $99.95
This volume explores recent developments in the theory and practice of accommodating cultural diversity within democratic constitutional orders. It provides a broad vision of the constitutional management of cultural diversity as seen through the prisms of different disciplines and experiences, both theoretical and practical.

A Foucauldian Approach to International Law
Descriptive Thoughts for Normative Issues Leonard M. Hammer, Zefat College, Israel
April 2008 * 162 pages Hardback * 0 7546 2356 4 / 978-0-7546-2356-4 * $99.95
The objective of the book is to offer Foucault's understanding of power and knowledge as the basis for interpreting the international system. Foucault begins to account for a current understanding of power and knowledge in a complex and multifaceted world that has not been adequately accounted for in current studies.