Competing with unicorns

Competition in the promised land

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban spa...

Competition in world politics

The “return of great power competition” among (among others) the United States, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. This cutting-edge edited collection offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions...

Competitive advantages of family firms

Exploring the rise of a 19th-century Barcelona chocolatier, Jou-Badal traces the business strategies that turned a food manufacturer into a bourgeois industrialist, exemplified by the iconic Casa Amatller. Through an analysis of competitive advantages over generations, it offers a case study meth...

Competitive strategies for the 21st century

Developing Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century: Theory, History, and Practice uses the theory and practice of peacetime great-power strategic competition to derive recommendations for a long-term strategic approach to the competition between the United States and China in the Western Paci...

Complaints & disorders [complaints and disorders]

New edition of this bestselling book about the history of sexism in the medical profession.

Complete and incomplete econometric models

Econometric models are widely used in the creation and evaluation of economic policy in the public and private sectors. But these models are useful only if they adequately account for the phenomena in question, and they can be quite misleading if they do not. In response, econometricians have dev...

Complete poems

Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry—from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor—offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.Here, for the first time in Englis...

Complete poems and selected letters of michelangelo

The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.

Complete sonnets

Complete Sonnets is a collection of 154 poems written by William Shakespeare, first published in 1609. They are considered to be the greatest sonnets and poems ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language. This powerful, thought-provoking collection is for anyone inte...

Complete works, volume i

Complete works, volume ii

Complete works, volume iii

Complete works, volume iv

Completely free

An original, unified reconstruction of Mill’s moral and political philosophy—one that finally reveals its consistency and full powerFew thinkers have been as influential as John Stuart Mill, whose philosophy has arguably defined Utilitarian ethics and modern liberalism. But fewer still have been ...

Completing your edd

Undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) can be a daunting yet career-defining task. Through engaging with research, increasing your networks, and conducting your own research project, you will advance your professional practice and understanding of your field.

Complex adaptive systems

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenge...

Complex analysis

With this second volume, we enter the intriguing world of complex analysis. From the first theorems on, the elegance and sweep of the results is evident. The starting point is the simple idea of extending a function initially given for real values of the argument to one that is defined when the a...

Complex network analysis in python

Complexity in international security

Leading international security expert Peter Sapaty introduces a new, high-level distributed processing and control approach capable of finding real-time solutions for irregularities, crises, and security problems emerging any time and in any part of the world.

Complexity theory for a sustainable future

Complexity theory illuminates the many interactions between natural and social systems, providing a better understanding of the general principles that can help solve some of today's most pressing environmental issues. Complexity theory was developed from key ideas in economics, physics, biology,...

Compliance and financial crime risk in banks

US and global banking regulators have enforced compliance laws to minimise money laundering, terrorist funding, human trafficking, fraudulent banking activities, and bad mortgage loans that expose banks to significant risks and losses. Author Sophia Beckett Velez offers an original contribution t...

Compliance in multinational corporations

Compliance in Multinational Corporations explores phenomena such as bribery, money laundering, and terrorism financing. Including an empirical analysis of 100 expert interviews, it takes an innovative look at the perspectives of criminals and compliance experts to provide a long-lasting guide for...

Complicating the female subject

In the 1930s, seven plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation as these women dared to question national myths, reinterpret the definition of subject, and subvert genre expectations. This study interrogates the feminism of these shocking dramas.

Complications

Complications is a brilliant study of the nature of communist totalitarianism pursued through the criticism of the recent work of two neo-liberal historians, Francois Furet and Martin Malia. Their books, The Passing of an Illusion and The Soviet Tragedy respectively were enthusiastically received...

Complicit

What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethic...

Complicit fictions

In Complicit Fictions, James Fujii challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese narratives and Japanese culture in general. He employs current Western literary-critical theory to reveal the social and political contest inherent in modern Japanese literature and also confronts recent...

Compliments of chicagohoodz

An artfully arranged collection of a rarely seen piece of Chicago gang history.

Composed on the tongue

A book of Allen Ginsberg's literary conversations 1967-1977, including his encounters with Ezra Pound and an exposition of William Carlos Williams' poetic practice.

Composers' intentions?

Essays on musical performance practice by an acknowledged expert in the field.These selected essays by conductor Andrew Parrott reflect the thinking behind some four decades of his ground-breaking performances and recordings. Bringing together seminal writings on the performance expectations of, ...

Composing a life

Composing for japanese instruments

A practical but scholarly guide to Japanese instruments by one of the country's leading composers.The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard more and more often in works for the concert hall and opera house. Composing for Japanese Instruments i...

Composing lives in transition

Composing Lives in Transition: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Early School Leavers is structured around ten narrative accounts, each one offering glimpses into the lives of early school leavers from different backgrounds

Composing modernism

Composing Modernism is the first book-length study to tell the fascinating story of a key strain of American composition during the Cold War. The Princeton School set aspirations for postwar music composition and discourse. Milton Babbitt especially sought a scientific conception of the composing...

Composing olana

The first and only book devoted to the landscape Frederic Church designed at Olana—what he considered his greatest work of art—timed to coincide with the bicentennial of his birthModelled on her acclaimed On the High Line (now in its third edition from Fordham University Press), Composing Olana u...

Composing storylines of possibilities

This book shares the experiences of migrant families in local schools. Each chapter starts with a family vignette and ends with implications for educators. It calls for school transformation, urging engagement with migrant families and embracing a risk and resilience model to achieve success.

Composition

First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition has probably influenced more Americans than any other text to think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity. While Dow is known as the mentor of Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber, his legacy as a proponent of modern ar...

Comprehensive insights in technological sustainability, education and business

Through a diverse range of perspectives and case studies, Comprehensive Insights in Technological Sustainability, Education, and Business provides a roadmap for stakeholders across various industries to navigate the complexities of the modern landscape.

Comprehensive multicultural education in the 21st century

This book examines the state of multicultural education amid rising populism and nationalism. It highlights gaps in opportunity and achievement, arguing that the goals of multicultural education have not been fully realized due to piecemeal application. The volume offers insights into equity, inc...

Comprehensive strategic management

This breakthrough book provides students and managers alike with an understanding of the concepts and tools of strategy.

Compressed sensing approach to systems and control

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book provides a comprehensive guide to compressed sensing-based techniques, focusing primarily on their application to systems and control.

Compression & purity

The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angeles–based African American surrealist Will Alexander. Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aimé Césaire and César Vallejo, Alexander here returns to s...

Compromised bodies

This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation”The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in 1999. Because only a third of the Senegalese population practiced female genital ...

Comptia linux+ study guide

While most operating systems come and go, Linux has steadily become the backbone of modern computing. The CompTIA Linux+ certification is the industry's most respected vendor-neutral credential, and the XK0-005 exam is your gateway to earning it. This study guide is a comprehensive learning solut...