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1. Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries

   By Mark Philip Taylor, John J. J. Chen, Brent Richmond Young

   The book exemplifies how to synthesize new control thinking with an understanding of process variability, to diagnose abnormalities and their causes in aluminum producing plants. Most examples also demonstrate the need for different human behavior and a more scientific, questioning approach to the...

   To Be Published October 29th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Something's in the Air

   Race, Crime, and the Legalization of Marijuana

   Edited by Katherine Tate, James Lance Taylor, Mark Q. Sawyer

   America’s drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences. In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color? Is...

   To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
3. Theorizing Cultural Work

   Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries

   Edited by Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill, Stephanie Taylor

   Series: CRESC

   In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this ‘turn to cultural work’ has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal...

   To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Applied Economics of Weight and Obesity

   Edited by Mark P. Taylor

   This volume consists of a broad selection of studies on the applied economics of weight and obesity. The chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics, and employ a variety of applied techniques across a range of countries. Some of the issues explored include: the relationship between childhood obesity...

   To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Global Financial Crisis

   Edited by Mark Taylor, Richard Clarida

   The global financial crisis has sent shockwaves through the world’s economies, and its effects have been deep and wide-reaching. This book brings together a range of applied studies, covering a range of international and regional experience in the area of finance in the context of the global...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Purchasing Power Parity and Real Exchange Rates

   Edited by Mark P. Taylor

   The term Purchasing Power Parity may date from the early twentieth century, when it was coined by the Swedish economist Gustav Cassel, but the underlying concept had been enjoying varying degrees of success since its development in sixteenth century Spain. Even towards the end of the ...

   Published September 1st 2012 by Routledge
7. The Applied Economics of Transport

   Edited by Mark Taylor

   This book provides an introduction and overview to nine applied financial studies on the theme of transport. The studies cover a wide range of topics, from value based trading of real assets in shipping, to the determinants of efficiency and productivity in European railways, to the market for used...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
8. Perspectives on Econometrics and Applied Economics

   A Tribute to Sir Clive Granger

   Edited by Mark Taylor

   This volume is dedicated to the memory and the achievements of Professor Sir Clive Granger, economics Nobel laureate and one of the great econometricians and applied economists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It comprises contributions from leading econometricians and applied...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Applied Economics of Labour

   Edited by Mark Taylor

   This book provides an introduction and overview to seven applied financial studies on the theme of labour. The studies cover a wide range of topics, from the individual effects of becoming disabled on key aspects of labour market outcomes in Germany, to testing whether there is evidence of...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Purchasing Power Parity and Real Exchange Rates

    Edited by Mark P. Taylor

    The term Purchasing Power Parity may date from the early twentieth century, when it was coined by the Swedish economist Gustav Cassel, but the underlying concept had been enjoying varying degrees of success since its development in sixteenth century Spain. Even towards the end of the ...

    Published November 8th 2009 by Routledge