Books published by Palgrave USA

This book offers cross-national evidence of the effectiveness of financial and physical incentives for regional development. It answers questions such as: What are the effects of tax incentives on the rest of the economy? Do tax and infrastructure incentives have any effect on the unemployment rate of areas adopting them?

A state of the art critical review of research into literature in language education of interest to teachers of English and of modern foreign languages. The primary focus is on language of literature, reading of literature, literature as culture, and literature in education.

VictorianStudies on theWebCritics Choice!Rudyard Kipling: Hell and Heroism is an exploration of two fundamental yet greatly neglected aspects of the author's life and writings: his deep-seated pessimism and his complex creed of heroism.

Through focusing on the sexual politics that have emerged out of post-apartheid South Africa, Spurlin investigates textual and cultural representations of same-sex desire outside of the Euroamerican axes of queer culture and politics, and considers the ways in which queer cultural productions in southern Africa both intersect with and resist these.

The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer.

An illustrated diary fiction starring an irrepressible kid doodler turned sketch artist, by a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist.

A powerful novel-in-verse about a boy's experience surviving the Holocaust.

A fresh, funny, romantic YA novel about a teenage girl who finds an unexpected silver lining in her life when plans get turned upside down.

This book investigates -s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions.

A friendship novel about bullying, from Jake Burt, the author of Greetings from Witness Protection!

This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.

Anyone who plans to do business in China shouldn't get on the plane without this book. It cracks the code of marketing to the new Chinese consumer by uncovering core drivers of behaviour and preference in key market segments. It includes indispensable practical advice and common pitfalls.

Previous studies in the area have been restricted to associating the Hamitic idea with pro-slavery arguments, whereas the thesis of this project reveals a fundamental irony: black American Christians who reinforced the meanings of illegitimacy by appealing to Ham as the ancestor of the race.

This landmark book describes and analyzes the original contributions Sir Roy Harrod made to fields including microeconomics, macroeconomics, international trade and finance, growth theory, trade cycle analysis and economic methodology.

This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005.

A girl with no special powers teams up with a so-called supervillain to investigate an insidious plot in their city in this action-packed YA debut.

A life on the prairie is not all it's cracked up to be in this middle-grade novel where one girl's mum takes her love of the Little House series just a bit too far.

A sinister middle-grade tale about a girl, a dollhouse, and a lone glass eye.