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Structure Structure, Performance, and Investment OpportunitiesThe book provides the investing public, real estates practitioners, regulators, and real estate and finance academics with up-to-date information on what modern scholarly research tells us about Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). REITs are credited to allow institutional and...

In   A Time for Peace, prominent American historian Robert D. Schulzinger sheds light on how deeply etched memories of this devastating conflict have altered America's political, social, and cultural landscape. Schulzinger examines the impact of the war from many angles. He traces the long, twisted, and painful path of reconciliation with Vietnam,...

Traditional understandings of citizenship are facing a number of challenges. Ideas        of cosmopolitan and environmental citizenship have emerged in the light of concerns        about global inequality and climate change, whilst new models of multicultural        citizenship have been developed in response to the dilemmas posed by immigration...

Music from behind the Bridge tells the story of the steelband from the point of view of musicians who overcame the disadvantages of poverty and prejudice with their extraordinary ambition. Literally referring to the poor neighborhoods nestled in the hills bordering Port of Spain to the East, "e;Behind the Bridge"e; is also a metaphor for...

This is the first exhaustive volume on dividends and corporate governance. The book provides new empirical evidence on the Continental European corporate governance system -- a largely under-researched system -- and its impact on dividends. Focusing on one of its representatives of this system, Germany, major differences between German dividends...

A Medieval NarrativeThis book presents a narratological analysis of the Kaiserchronik, or chronicle of        the emperors. The Kaiserchronik provides an account of the Roman and Holy Roman        emperors from the foundation of Rome to the eve of the Second Crusade and was the        first verse chronicle to have been written in any European...