A duel could result from any challenge to a gentleman's honour, from minor insult to major accusation. This title examines the evolution from Norman trials-by-combat to the formalised duel, analysing the custom's decline in England by Victorian times and its final disppearance from Europe by the twentieth century.  Meer

Executions have played a crucial - if grisly and controversial - part in British history and provided the bloody climax to many a life, from Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I and Dick Turpin to untold thousands of anonymous wretches whose names are now forgotten.  Meer

The 2024 Release of Cecchetti & Schoenholtz's Money, Banking, and Financial Markets boasts an innovative approach to enhancing coherence, relevance, and timeliness in the study of Money and Banking for economics students.  Meer

With expert colour profile artworks and technical specifications for each entry, Modern Russian Tanks explores the main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self- propelled guns and missile-launching platforms in Russian service since 1990 organised by type and then alphabetically by manufacturer.  Meer

Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting knowledge, and the dramatic increase in the volume of information and ideas clamoring for the attention of policy-makers are changing the landscape of foreign policy-making and the pathways through which influence is achieved.  Meer

Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting knowledge, and the dramatic increase in the volume of information and ideas clamoring for the attention of policy-makers are changing the landscape of foreign policy-making and the pathways through which influence is achieved.  Meer

The question of what rights might be afforded to Indigenous peoples has preoccupied the municipal legal systems of settler states since the earliest colonial encounters.  Meer

Organised chronologically by type, Russian Tanks of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II.  Meer

Stephan Germann analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen Risikomanagement und Unternehmenswert sowie die besondere Rolle des Kreditrisikomanagements für...  Meer

The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern.  Meer

Neben einem ausführlichen Überblick über die Konstruktionselemente der Asset-Backed-Securities-Finanzierung mit ihrer Vielzahl beteiligter Parteien und ihren Entwicklungslinien in den USA und Europa erörtert der Autor erstmals die möglicherweise weitreichenden Folgen auch für deutsche Kreditinstitute.  Meer