Development studies

Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joyKendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore.

The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly was a major breakthrough in the fight against poverty.

Whats the best bud when you go out to party and want to live it up?

The last book of essays by Church of Satan founder LaVey.

Sales isn't about pushing products or being efficient; it's about building the right systems to manage and empower your salespeople.

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Written in clear, easy-to-understand language for the novice grower, Closet Cultivator is the ultimate secret growing guide.

The Pacific Economic Monitor provides an update of developments in Pacific economies and explores topical policy issues.

This new strategy for transport development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) consists of a strategic framework covering 2018-2030 and a set of performance indicators initially covering 2018-2022.

This book investigates the political legacy of colonialism in contemporary African institutions.

We are in a decisive decade that demands more inspired and informed practitioners who can use positive futures to rebalance the present.

This book highlights the relationship between disasters and development through a socio-cultural study of human geography and governance institutions.

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From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them.

This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time.

From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them.

From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero.

This book focuses on the changes currently redefining parties and party systems in Israel and India with regard to parliamentary democracy, coalitional polity, electoral profiles and social diversity.

"e;A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.

This scholarly close reading of Allen Ginsberg's "e;Howl"e; considers the iconic poem through a four-part trickster framework: appetite, boundlessness, transformative power and a proclivity for setting and falling victim to tricks and traps.

This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture.

This book questions the predominance of "e;media abundance"e; as a guiding concept for contemporary mediated politics.

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface.

Mental, Emotional and Behavioural Needs of the General Population Following COVID-19 in India: Findings from Qualitative and Quantitative Studies explores the psychological challenges arising from COVID-19 that impacted the Indian general population.

Children's literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself.

This book addresses the rights of indigenous peoples to marine space and associated marine resources under international law.

Extending law beyond the human, the book probes the conceptual openings, methodological challenges and ethical conundrums of law in a time of deep socio-ecological disturbances and transitions.

In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice.

With the very real possibility of nuclear war looming on the horizon from 1945 to the early 1960s, both federal and local governments took on the responsibility of educating Americans on how to survive the expected blasts, residual fallout, and radiation poisoning.

This book is about advertising and culture.

This book questions the predominance of "e;media abundance"e; as a guiding concept for contemporary mediated politics.

Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights to frame our intelligent use of technology.

International development is a dynamic, vibrant and complex field - both in terms of practices and in relation to framing and concepts.

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture.

This book examines the application of risk-sharing finance as a national economic policy in history and how it stimulated economic recovery during a short period in Germany between 1933 and 1935.

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

This book systematically discusses the contribution of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to China's transition from an emerging to an advanced economic and financial system after more than five years.

This book considers the effect of China's unprecedented economic growth and more prominent geopolitical role in the twenty-first century.

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design.

This volume asks how we, as International Relations scholars, support our students, and indeed each other, to create classroom spaces that foster the critical curiosity and engagement required to understand and live in a world that feels dangerously disrupted?

This book explores rurality and education in sub-Saharan Africa through a lens of social justice.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

This SpringerBrief focuses on Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in the three basins in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Value chains are a vital part of how our world operates, yet we are only beginning to understand how to make them sustainable.

This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces.

This book introduces and demonstrates the state-of-the art research and development in tackling sustainable urban and rural integration, supported by digitalization and digital transformation in rural areas with Industry 4.

This book focuses on the Nordic countries through a European perspective and wishes to draw attention to their place in the new world order.

This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them.

This book contributes to our understanding of a neglected and poorly-understood concept within the development field: 'capacity development' in the context of human and organisational sustainable development.

This book identifies key factors that drive the development and improvement of higher education research in emerging and advanced economies.