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Economics, Business Administration and Legal Studies

Wetland Environments – A Global Perspective
Soils in the Urban Environment
Spatial Modelling of the Terrestrial Environment
Urban Remote Sensing – Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment
A New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development
A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean
An Introduction to Sustainable Development
An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use
Business, Government and Sustainable Development
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation
Barriers to Sustainable Transport
Accelerating New Food Product Design and Development
Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development
Designing Sustainability
How Designers Think
Inclusive Design
Manufacturing Material Effects
Perspective, Projections and Design
Dictionary of Ecodesign
Getting There by Design
Dimensions of Sustainability
New Directions in Sustainable Design
Product Design and Engineering Formulation of Gels and Pastes
Industrial Product Design of Solids and Liquids – A Practical Guide
Synthesis Lectures on Engineering : Project Management for Engineering Design
Become a Successful Designer : Protect and Manage Your Design Rights Internationally
Birkhäuser Generalstandingorder : Material Revolution 2 : New Sustainable and Multi-Purpose Materials for Design and Architecture
Kultur- und Medientheorie : Advertising and Design : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Cultural Field

Benchmarks in Hospitality and Tourism
Cases in Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable Marketing of Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Sustainable Tourism in Rural Europe
Business of Hotels
Developing Hospitality Properties and Facilities
Franchising Hospitality Services
Handbook of Marketing Research Methodologies for Hospitality and Tourism
Hospitality Management Education
Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry
International Dictionary of Hospitality Management
Tourism and the Lodging Sector
Business Travel and Tourism
Contemporary Tourism
Developments in Tourism Research
Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
Economics of Sustainable Tourism
Front Office
Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries
International Cultural Tourism
International Tourism
Progress in Tourism Marketing
Responsible Tourist Behaviour
Safety and Security in Tourism
Sports Tourism
Sustainable Tourism
The Economics of Tourism
Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st Century
Tourism Geography
Tourism Management
Understanding Tourism
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, Volume 7
Profit Planning : For Hospitality and Tourism (3rd, Extended Edition)

Core Auditing Standards for Practitioners + Website
Operational Auditing Handbook – Auditing Businessand IT Processes 2e
Essentials of Banking
Accounting Ethics 2e
The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, Fourth Edition
The Power of Mobile Banking: How to Profit from the Revolution in Retail Financial Services
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism
Not-for-Profit Accounting, Tax, and Reporting Requirements, Fourth Edition
Benford’s Law: Applications for Forensic Accounting, Auditing, and Fraud Detection
Benford’s Law: Applications for Forensic Accounting, Auditing, and Fraud Detection
Bank Fraud: Using Technology to Combat Losses
Handbook of Strategic Account Management – A Comprehensive Resource
Key Account Management – The Definitive Guide 3e
Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems,
The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership, Second EditionStrategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership, Second Edition
Business, Management and Economics, Volume 23 : Advances in Management Accounting
7 Fundamentals of an Operationally Excellent Management System
A Guide to Innovation Processes and Solutions for Government
A Guide to Publishing for Academics: Inside the Publish or Perish Phenomenon
Agile for Project Managers
Business Continuity Planning: A Project Management Approach
Capital Account Liberation: Methods and Applications
Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision Making
Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel
Government Anti-Corruption Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Sustainability, Social Responsibility, and Innovations in the Hospitality Industry
Project Leadership: Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization
From Projects to Programs: A Project Manager’s Journey
Green Design, Materials and Manufacturing Processes
The Banking Crisis Handbook
IT Auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Key Strategies for Business Improvement
Auditing, Trust and Governance: Developing Regulation in Europe
Marketing the e-Business
e-Business Fundamentals

Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting, Second Edition
The Transit of Goods in Public International Law
What’s Wrong with International Law? : Liber Amicorum A.H.A. Soons
A Nascent Common Law : The Process of Decisionmaking in International Legal Disputes between States and Foreign Investors
Formalisation and Flexibilisation in Dispute Resolution
Offshore Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic under International Law : Risk and Responsibility
Jurisdiction over Ships : Post-UNCLOS Developments in the Law of the Sea
Contributory Negligence : A Historical and Comparative Study
The European Union in the World : Essays in Honour of Marc Maresceau
Introduction to International Criminal Law, 2nd Revised Edition
The Interpretation of International Investment Law : Equality, Discrimination and Minimum Standards of Treatment in Historical Context
Global Challenges: Peace and War
Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2011)
International Civil Tribunals and Armed Conflict
Remedies under the WTO Legal System
In the Shadow of Luxembourg: EU and National Developments in the Regulation of Gambling
Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective
Case Law in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law
Global Civil Society in International Lawmaking and Global Governance : Theory and Practice
International Litigation : A Guide to Jurisdiction, Practice and Strategy. Fourth Revised Edition
WTO – Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Legal Aspects of the Cyprus Problem : Annan Plan and EU Accession
Constitutionalisation of Private Law
Drafting International Contracts
Competence-Competence in the Face of Illegality in Contracts and Arbitration Agreements
The Evolution of Sustainable Development in International Law: Inception, Meaning and Status
Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2013)
Market Supervision in the European Union : Integrated Administration in Constitutional Context
China and International Investment Law : Twenty Years of ICSID Membership
Challenges and Recusals of Judges and Arbitrators in International Courts and Tribunals
Reshaping the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System : Journeys for the 21st Century
Litigation at the International Court of Justice : Practice and Procedure
Recognition and Enforcement of International Commercial Arbitral Awards in Latin America : Law, Practice and Leading Cases
China, State Sovereignty and International Legal Order
The Role of the State in Investor-State Arbitration
The Function of Proportionality Analysis in European Law
Cyber-Attacks and the Exploitable Imperfections of International Law
The Internal Justice of the United Nations : A Critical History 1945-2015
Russian Electricity and Energy Investment Law
Litigating International Investment Disputes : A Practitioner’s Guide
The Limits of Maritime Jurisdiction
Law & Equity : Approaches in Roman Law and Common Law
Foreign Investment in the Energy Sector : Balancing Private and Public Interests
Citizens’ Rights and the Right to Be a Citizen
Frontiers of International Economic Law : Legal Tools to Confront Interdisciplinary Challenges
EU Management of Global Emergencies : Legal Framework for Combating Threats and Crises
Regional Cooperation and Free Trade Agreements in Asia
African Participation at the World Trade Organization : Legal and Institutional Aspects, 1995-2010
State Legitimacy and Failure in International Law
Reflections on the Constitutionalisation of International Economic Law : Liber Amicorum for Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
Foreign Court Judgments and the United States Legal System
The Culture of Judicial Independence : Rule of Law and World Peace
Law, Politics and Rights : Essays in Memory of Kader Asmal
The Interpretation of Investment Treaties
The Changing Landscape of Global Financial Governance and the Role of Soft Law
Enhancing the Rule of Law through the International Court of Justice
Interaction and Delimitation of International Legal Orders
International Law in the New Age of Globalization
Lexicon of Environmental Law / Les définitions du droit de l’environnement
The World Bank and Sustainable Development : Legal Essays
Consent in European Data Protection Law
The European Union’s Emerging International Identity : Views from the Global Arena
EU Competition Law and Liberal Professions: an Uneasy Relationship?
International Arbitration : Contemporary Issues and Innovations
Diplomatic and Judicial Means of Dispute Settlement
Economic Diplomacy : Japan and the Balance of National Interests
Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice
The Interpretation and Application of the European Convention of Human Rights : Legal and Practical Implications
Islam and International Law : Engaging Self-Centrism from a Plurality of Perspectives
WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding and Development
Evidence from Earth Observation Satellites : Emerging Legal Issues
Rethinking Money Laundering & Financing of Terrorism in International Law : Towards a New Global Legal Order
Theologians and Contract Law : The Moral Transformation of the Ius Commune (ca. 1500-1650)
Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2012)
Greening International Jurisprudence : Environmental NGOs before International Courts, Tribunals, and Compliance Committees
The Cape Town Convention : Its Application to Space Assets and Relation to the Law of Outer Space
The Culture of Judicial Independence : Rule of Law and World Peace
An Introduction to International Law
The Rules, Practice, and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals
WTO and the Greater China : Economic Integration and Dispute Resolution
Necessity and National Emergency Clauses : Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretation
International Law as Law of the European Union
Contracts for the International Sale of Goods : Applicability and Applications of the 1980 United Nations Convention
Dispute Resolution in the Law of the Sea
EU Law and Private International Law : The Interrelationship in Contractual Obligations
Global Sukūk and Islamic Securitization Market : Financial Engineering and Product Innovation
International Investment Law
International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries : Exploring Multilateral Legal and Quasi-Legal Solutions
WTO – Trade in Goods
Member States versus the European Union : The Regulation of Gambling
International Arbitral Jurisdiction
Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law : A Comparative Search
The Impact of Investment Treaties on Contracts between Host States and Foreign Investors
Looking to the Future : Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman
Sustainable Development : Towards a Judicial Interpretation
New Directions in International Economic Law : In Memoriam Thomas Wälde
Sex and the Contract : From infamous commerce to the market for sexual goods and services
Implementing International Economic Law :Through Dispute Settlement Mechanisms
The Judiciary in Central and Eastern Europe : Mechanical Jurisprudence in Transformation?
The EU and Cyprus : Principles and Strategies of Full Integration
Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2009)
The Regulation of Transnational Mergers in International and European Law
A Global View of Business Insolvency Systems
Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2008)
Jurisdiction of Specific International Tribunals
The Impact of Legislation : A Critical Analysis of Ex Ante Evaluation
Multiculturalism and International Law : Essays in Honour of Edward McWhinney
Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2007)
The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage : National Perspectives in Light of the UNESCO Convention 2001 – Second Edition
An International Restatement of Contract Law: The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
The Globalization of Energy : China and the European Union
Energy Law: An Introduction

Humanities

Ancient Greek Cults
Ancient History from Coins
Greece in the Making 1200 – 479 BC
Greek Mysteries
Greek Sanctuaries
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece
The Classical Archaeology of Greece
The Coming of Rome (Routledge Revivals)
The Concept of the Goddess
The Conquest of Assyria
The Near East
The Persians
The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe to the Mycenean Age
The Roman City and its Periphery
A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
Animals and Human Society
Cultural Identity and Archaeology
From Mycenae to Constantinople
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
Goddess and the Warrior
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
Hunters, Fishers and Farmers of Eastern Europe, 6000-3000 B.C.
Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades
Life and Death in the Bronze Age
Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean
Mesopotamia Before History
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia
The Bronze Age in Europe
The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
The Emergence of Civilisation
The European Iron Age
The Prehistory of Food
The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons
Ancient Turkey
From Rome to Byzantium
Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity
The Roads of Roman Italy
The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine
Brill’s Companion to Ancient Macedon
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Achaemenid Culture and Local traditions in Anatolia, Southern Caucasus and Iran : New Discoveries
Money in the Late Roman Republic
Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World
Roman Gods : A Conceptual Approach
Frontiers in the Roman World : Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Durham, 16-19 April 2009)
Alexander The Great
The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins
Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe
Alexander the Great
Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy
Collected Papers on Alexander the Great
The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire
Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity
Roman Villas in Central Italy : A Social and Economic History
Greek Colonisation : An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume Two
Romanising Oriental Gods : Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras
The Syrian Wars
Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity
Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods
The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History
The Ancient Sailing Season
Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume I
Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume II
East and West in Late Antiquity : Invasion, Settlement, Ethnogenesis and Conflicts of Religion
The Policy of Darius and Xerxes towards Thrace and Macedonia
A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages
Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800
The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806: A European Perspective
A History of the Balkans 1804-1945
Balkan Prehistory
The Balkan Wars 1912-1913
Alexander the Great: Lessons in Strategy
Alexander the Great
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
Alexander’s Heirs: The Age of the Successors
Roman Empire in Context – Historical and Comparative Perspectives
The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations
Cleopatra and Egypt
The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translations
Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
A Companion to Greek and Roman Political ThoughtoBook
Constantine – Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire
Lives of the Caesars
A Companion to Ancient Greek Government
A Companion to Plutarch
A Brief History of Ancient Astrology
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
A Companion to the Neronian Age
Hellenistic Civilization
War in the Hellenistic World – A Social and Cultural History
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
A Companion to Hellenistic Literature
Magic in the Ancient Greek World
Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater
Companion to Horace
The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
A Companion to Greek Mythology
Rome Enters the Greek East – From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean,130-146 BC
Companion to the Roman Army
A Companion to Ancient History
A Companion to the Hellenistic World
A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic
The Land of Ionia – Society and Economy in the Archaic Period
A Companion to Julius Caesar
Guide to Hellenistic Literature
A Social History of Byzantium
Two Oxen Ahead – Pre-Mechanized Farming in the Mediterranean
A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic
A Companion to Classical Receptions
Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great – Prosopography of Alexander’s Empire
Ancient History
A Companion to Greek Literature
Companion to the Punic Wars
Companion to Byzantium
A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
Ancient Greek Divination
Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean
A Companion to the Classical Tradition
A Companion to the Classical Greek World
Modern Greece
Epic and Ancient History
Romans in the Age of Augustus
A Companion to Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome and Modern America
Nero
Classics and the Uses of Reception
Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World Readings and Sources
A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Vandals
Osiris – Death and Afterlife of a God
Antiquity and Modernity
Companion to Greek Religion
A Companion to Sophocles
Companion to the Roman Empire
Petronius
Companion to Archaic Greece
Geography and Ethnography
Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders, Expanded and Updated Edition
War and Peace in the Ancient World
Greek Tragedy
A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World
Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman World
Ancient Greek Democracy – Readings and Sources
A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
A Companion to the Roman Republic
Virgil’s Aeneid – A Reader’s Guide
A Companion to Late Antiquity
Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine
A Companion to Roman Religion
Classical Literature
The Gift in Antiquity
Greek Historiography
Whither Quo Vadis? – Sienkiewicz’s Novel in Filmand Television
Pompey the Great
The Classical Tradition – Art, Literature, Thought
Companion to Catullus
Virgil
A Companion to Greek Art
Ancient Egyptian Tombs – The Culture of Life and Death
A Companion to the Ancient Near East
War in Ancient Egypt – Ancient World at War
Plautus and Roman Slavery
Always I am Caesar
Alexander the Great in His World
Greece: A Short History of a Long Story, 7,000 BCE to the Present
A Companion to Roman Britain
New History of the Peloponnesian War
A Companion to Roman Architecture
A Companion to Ancient Thrace
A Companion to Marcus Aurelius
Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II
King Hammurabi of Babylon
A Companion to Augustine
A Companion to Food in the Ancient World
The Fall of the Roman Empire
A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
Julius Caesar in Western Culture
Britain and the Balkans
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans
Asia Minor
Studies in Hellenistic Religions
The Early Amazons : Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth
The Monuments of the Hellenistic-Roman Period from Egypt
Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th-18th Centuries
Land of the Elephant Kings : Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire