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This work is essential for banking and investment business legal practitioners and provides an invaluable reference source on current on and off-exchange market trading and regulatory issues, in the banking, investment and derivatives fields.  The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis on the regulation of financial markets and...

Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents brings together many of the field&'s most important scholars and media professionals to present cutting-edge theory and empirical research on both the benefits and risks to youth development. It examines the role that media play in the every-day lives of young people and their families, and...

A Practitioner&'s Guide to Indictments and SentencingAn easy to follow guide and referencer which contains all the technical information needed in sexual offences cases. The law in this area has expanded greatly in recent decades; &'historic&' cases are currently tried under the law existing at the time the offence was committed (and if the abuse...

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science.  For this fourth...

Why is governance of addiction so difficult? What can we learn from recent experiences and efforts in Europe? Governance of Addictions analyses the multidisciplinary research which has been used as a framework for understanding how governments formulate and implement addiction policies in 27 European Union member states plus Norway, looking in...

In the early twentieth century, Bela Bartok and his circle argued for a new definition of "e;Hungarianness,"e; one which centered around folksong rather than the "e;Hungarian-Gypsy"e; style relied upon by Franz Liszt and his contemporaries. Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartok traces the historical process that defined...