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New Books List April-June 2011 NBL_AJ2011.indd 1 10/02/2011 16:08 New edition from ½ million copy bestselling author Stella Cottrell The new edition of this leading guide helps students to develop reflective thinking skills, improve their critical analysis and construct arguments more effectively. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step explanations and practice activities develop understanding at each stage. This edition has been fully revised and contains a brand new chapter on ‘Critical Reflection’. Critical Thinking Skills is part of the leading Study Skills list from Palgrave Macmillan, which includes the bestselling The Study Skills Handbook, also by Stella Cottrell. Recommend it to all May 2011 | Paperback | 978-0-230-28529-3 | £13.99 your customers today! NBL_AJ2011.indd 2 10/02/2011 16:08 Order securely online at www.palgrave.com or telephone +44 (0)1256 302866 fax + 44(0)1256 330688 email [email protected] New Books List Rainbow Umbrella 1 © Madeleine Openshaw/Fotolia.co.uk April–June 2011 KEY TO SYMBOLS Title is, or New Title available Inspection Web resource as an ebook comes with, a copy available available CD-ROM/DVD CONTENTS Anthropology 2 Modern Languages 65 Banking and Finance 2 Nursing and Health 66 Business and Management 3 Office for National Statistics 67 British Film Institute 12 Philosophy and Religion 67 Counselling and Psychotherapy 14 Politics 69 Culture and Media 15 Popular Science 95 Economics 19 Psychology 95 Education 21 Religion 99 Engineering 22 Social Work and Social Policy 100 Gender Studies 24 Sociology 102 History 25 Study Skills 109 Language and Linguistics 41 Theatre and Performance 110 Law 46 Teaching and Researching in Higher Education 117 Life Sciences 48 Index 118 Literature 50 Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 65 For a complete list of titles, please visit www.palgrave.com. Prices are correct at the time of print. Our catalogues and the packaging they are delivered in are recyclable - when you have finished with this catalogue please recycle it. Printed by an ISO 14001 (Environmental Standard) accredited printer on paper from a managed source to PEFC standard, and printed using vegetable-based ink. ANTHROPOLOGY • BANKING AND FINANCE ANTHROPOLOGY BANKING AND FINANce HIGHLIGHT Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Sovereign Debt Crisis and the New The Future of Insurance Regulation Revitalization Normal and Supervision Explorations in Siberia and Beyond The New Normal and the Newly Poor A Global Perspective Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor, Dimitris N. Chorafas Edited by Patrick M. Liedtke, Georgetown University, USA; Editor of Anthropology and International Management Secretary General; Archeology of Eurasia Consultant Managing Director, The Geneva Association, Many voices clamor to be heard in debates about Restructuring the balance Switzerland and Jan whether shamans cure, and whether shamanic sheets of Western Monkiewicz, Professor of spirituality is worth continuing or recovering governments, banks Financial Management, in the twenty-first century. This book provides and households is an Warsaw University of new insights into the fascinating resurgence of important issue in the Technology, Poland shamanism through an exploration of the political recovery after the recent repression of religion and its transcendence. crisis. Chorafas’ latest Written by leading book focuses on sovereign academics, researchers Contents: Spirits Under Siege / Doctors or Deceivers? / debt, sovereign risk and and insurance industry Sacred Genders / Poetics of Sacred Language Through the developing economic experts, this book offers Time and Space / Flights of the Sacred: Birds, Trees and financial business a diversified perspective and Open Body-Mindedness / Two Urban Shamans: climate and explains why on how the regulatory Unmasking Leadership / Social Medicine? Religious the year of the big crisis may fall in the middle of and supervisory framework for the insurance sector Movements in Siberia / Sustainable Faith? Multiple this decade. will develop over the coming years. It is supported generations of healing and spirituality / Sacred Trust: by The Geneva Association, the world-leading Doing Fieldwork in Siberia Contents: PART I: FINANCIAL RISKS WHICH KEPT insurance think-tank of the private industry. PILING UP / The World’s New Normal Economic System June 2011 256pp 216x138mm / Sovereign Debt in the Absence of a Debt Policy / Contents: PART I: THE GLOBAL FRAMEWORK / PART Hardback £52.00 978-0-230-11091-5 Bubbles Inflated by Lose Monetary and Fiscal Measures II: THE SUPERVISORY DIMENSION / PART III: MARKET Contemporary Anthropology of Religion / Quantitative Easing, Living Will and Money of the DIMENSION / PART IV: STAKEHOLDER PROTECTION Series Editor: Robert W. Hefner Mind / Restructuring the Sovereign Balance Sheet and / PART V: DEVELOPED MARKETS PERSPECTIVE / PART To order all titles in the series please go to: http:// Deleveraging / PART II: HUGE DEBTS BY BANKS AND VI: EMERGING MARKETS PERSPECTIVE / PART VII: www.palgrave.com/booksellers/standingorder.asp CONSUMERS ARE COMING DUE / European Banks, INTERNATIONAL ISSUES Taxpayers Money and Stress Tests / American Banks, A Full Table of Contents is Available at: www.palgrave.com AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Can They Repay the Taxpayers Money? / Bubbles Created by the Runaway Contributors include: Manuel Aguilera-Verduzco; Julian Real Estate in the US and Britain / The Indebtedness of Arkell; Philippe Brahin; Peter Braumüller; Rob Curtis; Erik Families in the US, Britain and France Leads to Another Big Denters; Martin Eling; Michel Flamée; Yasuhiro Hayasaki; Bubble / PART III: GOVERNMENTS WILL HAVE A TOUGH Aerdt Houben; Nadège Jassaud; Bradley L. Kading; Denis TIME IN THE YEARS AHEAD / Virtually Bankrupt Western Kessler; Jean Kwon; Monica Mächler; Leila Madeiros; Economies: Case Studies on Greece, Portugal and Spain Donato Masciandaro; Marek Monkiewicz; Marc Quintyn; / Britain and Ireland Lack the Lender of Last Resort that Marcelo Ramella; Przemysław Rymaszewski; Sebastian Saved Dubai / The United States and China Risk Repeating Schich; Hato Schmeiser; Sharon Tennyson; Ian Tower; Japan’s Two Lost Decades / PART IV: IMPACT OF THE Mark Teunissen; Karel Van Hulle; Therese M. Vaughan; NEW NORMAL ON ECONOMIC POLICY / The New Alexander Warzilek; Paul Windels; Wei Zheng Normal Calls for Reregulation and Deglobalization / Basel April 2011 480pp 234x156mm III’s Capital Rules should Account for Target the New Hardback £125.00 978-0-230-29269-7 Normal / Why the Group of 20 is Out of Touch with the Real Economic Problems / The Global Systemic Risk has been Programmed for 2014 June 2011 256pp 216x138mm Hardback £65.00 978-0-230-29840-8 Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions Series Editor: Philip Molyneux To order all titles in the series please go to: http:// www.palgrave.com/booksellers/standingorder.asp 2 Order securely online at www.palgrave.com or telephone +44 (0)1256 302866 BANKING AND FINANce • BusINEss AND MANAGEMENT/BusINEss EthICS European Banking Emerging Asia BUSINess AND MANAGemeNT / Enlargement, Structural Changes and Recent Essays on Crises, Capital Flows, FDI and Exchange BUSINess ETHIcs Developments Rate Özlem Olgu, Assistant Professor in Accounting and Ramkishen S. Rajan, Associate Professor, School of FIRST ANNOUNcemeNT Finance, Koc University, Turkey Public Policy, George Mason University, USA Despite considerable progress on political and This book on the different aspects of international The Individual in Business Ethics economic convergence over the last decade, economic policy covers financial crises, reserve financial structures of individual countries within accumulation, capital flows and currency wars as An American Cultural Perspective the EU remain diverse. This book considers the well as issues relating to foreign direct investment future prospects of the banking industry in the and developments in China and India. Tomas Kavaliauskas, context of enlargement, application of the IFRS and Researcher; Lecturer, a potential new member country, Turkey. Contents: PART I: CRISIS, CAPITAL FLOWS AND Vytautas Magnus University, EXCHANGE RATES IN ASIA / Booms and Busts in Private Lithuania Contents: Introduction / Creating a Functioning Capital Flows to Emerging Asia since the 1990s / Asia as European Union / Enlargement of the European Union / a Source of Capital (with R.Hattari) / Will the US Dollar This book shows how Macroeconomic Structure of the EU Countries / Banking Remain the Single Global Currency? (with S.Gopalan) business ethics grovels Structures of the EU Countries / Financial Integration, / Exchange Rate Regimes in Asia / East Asia and the before corporations and Efficiency andB alance Sheet Structure at European Real Exchange Rate (with J.H.Beverinotti) / PART II: how it is too weak to Banking Sector / Global Financial Crisis and State of EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY, CRISES AND CONTROLS create a truly critical voice European Banking Sector / Turkey- A Prospective Member IN EMERGING ECONOMIES / The Problem with of American capitalist Country / Concluding Remarks Exchange Rate Volatility / Capital Controls: No Longer economy. The individual’s June 2011 272pp 216x138mm Unorthodox / Reconsidering the Tobin Tax / Sovereign treatment in corporate Hardback £65.00 9780230231719 Debt Defaults: Concerns and Lessons / Banking Sector life is revealed through the Internationalisation in Asia (with S.Gopalan) / PART III: eyes of Protestant culture ASIA AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE / and its coercive