Drawing on historical, legal, literary, ethnographic and archaeological evidence, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the use, acquisition and perception of whales in the medieval Norse North Atlantic world.

The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. A collection of essays from economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars, this study...

This e-book examines education, training and learning in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) operating in both industrially developed and developing countries. It also includes articles on entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial knowledge creation. The articles within cover topics...

This is the third in a series devoted to the research output of British library and information schools. This e-book focuses on the School of Information Management at London Metropolitan University. Information and Knowledge Management at London Metropolitan University is well grounded in the...

Blazing the Neoliberal Trail asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. Drawing on extensive archival research, Timothy P. R. Weaver shows how elites became persuaded by neoliberal ideas and remade political institutions...

Sub-Saharan Africa has a serious infrastructure deficit-estimated at about 48 billion a year-which is impeding the continent's competitiveness and hence its economic growth. How to solve this problem? Some advocate building more infrastructure while others suggest privatizing, or contracting out...

Raising funds to fulfill a nonprofit organization's goals is critical to its success, but fundraising regulations are an increasingly complex maze. The Law of Fundraising, Fifth Edition is the definitive guide to demystifying federal and state fundraising regulations. With new discussion on...

Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women's employment in post-war Britain. A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Small Town Catholic Boy -- 2. Pierre du Pont and John J. Raskob -- 3. Raskob and the DuPont Company -- 4. Too Big? -- 5. Raskob Makes a Rich Life in Wilmington -- 6. Billy Durant -- 7. Family Man -- 8. The General Motors Deal -- 9. Man...

In Breaking into the Monopoly, Yukihisa Kumagai examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised campaigns to end the British East India Company's monopoly from 1812-1813 and 1829-1833.