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World Market Price of Oil: Impacting Factors and Forecasting (SpringerBriefs in Economics)

Springer, 2019

This book develops new econometric models to analyze and forecast the world market price of oil. The authors construct ARIMA and Trend models to forecast oil prices, taking into consideration outside factors such as political turmoil and solar activity on the price of oil. Incorporating historical and contemporary market trends, the...

Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book is a compelling account of China’s response to the increasing numbers of ‘foreigners’ in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China’s position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift....

Management Studies in South Africa: Exploring the Trajectory in the Apartheid Era and Beyond (Palgrave Studies in African Leadership)

Palgrave Pivot, 2018

This book examines the trajectory of management studies in South Africa during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. The unique political journey of South Africa provides a distinctive context in which to explore the progression of management studies within a developing state. The authors consider how Apartheid has configured the...

Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia: Building State and Citizenship (Routledge Studies in Latin American Development)

Routledge, 2019

This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six large peace processes and amnesties that took place in Colombia over this period were nation-led, providing an interesting case study for the wider DDR literature, which has historically...

We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

Columbia Global Reports, 2019

"A wise and thorough investigation." - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and The Terror Years

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the...

The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual chapters are grouped together in themes,...

An Introduction to Cyber Modeling and Simulation (Wiley Series in Modeling and Simulation)

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

Introduces readers to the field of cyber modeling and simulation and examines current developments in the US and internationally

This book provides an overview of cyber modeling and simulation (M&S) developments. Using scenarios, courses of action (COAs), and current M&S and simulation environments,...

The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training (Wiley Handbooks in Education)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

A collection of the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training written by international experts

The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training offers an in-depth guide to the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training (VET). With contributions...

The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line

Pluto Press, 2019

Fifty years of the War on Drugs has led to millions of deaths, displacements, and incarcerations. Disproportionately enacted on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the color line across the globe. This collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numerous...

Greening China’s Urban Governance: Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges (ARI - Springer Asia Series (7))

Springer, 2018

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China – particularly city governments and social actors – tackle China’s urban environmental crisis. The volume’s case studies speak to important interdisciplinary themes such as new tools and instruments of urban green governance, climate change and urban carbon...

The Nile Development Game: Tug-of-War or Benefits for All?

Springer, 2019

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River. It presents a thorough and in-depth analysis of the historical path through which conflict and cooperation have been generated among the Nile riparians over...

Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition: The Climate Change Act 2008

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

The UK Climate Change Act was the first case of a country implementing blanket legally binding long-term emissions reduction targets in order to combat climate change. This book provides the first accessible and in-depth analysis of the UK’s complex Climate Change Act framework, presenting the discussion in a...

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