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1. Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy

   Edited by Ian Parker, David Pavón-Cuéllar

   Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations for this research, and worked examples from analysts working with a range of different texts. The...

   To Be Published October 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Tall Buildings Reference Book

   Edited by David Parker, Antony Wood

   As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in today’s urban areas. Whether it is residential, a workplace or mixed use, the tower is both a statement of intent and the defining image...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II

   Popular Capitalism, 1987-97

   By David Parker

   Series: Government Official History Series

   This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, steel...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Official History of Privatisation Vol. I

   The formative years 1970-1987

   By David Parker

   Series: Government Official History Series

   This first volume of the Official History studies the background to privatisation, and the privatisations of the first two Conservative Governments led by Margaret Thatcher from May 1979 to June 1987. First commissioned by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair as an authoritative history, this volume...

   Published January 18th 2009 by Routledge
5. Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition

   In the West 1560-1991

   Edited by David Parker

   Revolutions presents eight European case studies including the English revolution of 1649, the French Revolution and the recent revolutions within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989-1991) and examines them not only in their specific political, economic and social contexts but also as part of...

   Published October 18th 2000 by Routledge
6. Privatization and Supply Chain Management

   On the Effective Alignment of Purchasing and Supply after Privatization

   By Andrew Cox, Lisa Harris, David Parker

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   This book brings together two of the 'hottest issues' in current management thinking: the impact of privatization on the performance and behaviour of the companies involved, and the increasingly important role of purchasing and supplier relationships. The notion that efficiency is improved with...

   Published April 14th 1999 by Routledge
7. Privatization in the European Union

   Theory and Policy Perspectives

   Edited by David Parker

   The book identifies different national characteristics in terms of the motivation to privatise, the scale of privatization and its consequences. In the opening chapters there is a detailed overview of the theoretical economic issues involved in privatisation and an assessment of privatization...

   Published April 15th 1998 by Routledge
8. The Impact of Privatization

   Ownership and Corporate Performance in the United Kingdom

   By Stephen Martin, David Parker

   Are resources allocated more efficiently through private ownership than through the public sector? The experiences of eleven newly privatised companies are examined to evaluate this hypothesis. With the Government's pro-privatization policies in place for over a decade, this is a prime time to...

   Published February 12th 1997 by Routledge
9. Innovations In GIS

   Edited by David Parker

   Derived from presentations made at the third annual UK National Conference on GIS Research, this work consists of contributions by leading experts in: geography, mathematics, computing science, surveying, archaeology, planning and medicine....

   Published June 8th 1996 by CRC Press
10. Class and State in Ancien Regime France

    The Road to Modernity?

    By David Parker

    Class and State in Early Modern France explores the economic, social, ideological and political foundations of French Absolutism. David Parker's challenging interpretation presents French Absolutism as a remarkably successful attempt to preserve the political and ideological structures of the...

    Published March 13th 1996 by Routledge