This book introduces readers to Catholic social teaching, the Church's long tradition of reflection on the meaning of social justice and how to enact it.
This seminal volume fills a gap in current literature on education, gender, and development by giving voice to the Arab Gulf region, contrasting key issues with those felt globally in order to support a more sustainable, gender equitable future of education in the region.
A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbean-from the tip of South America to the Windward Islands.
Polish estrada music dominated Polish popular music throughout the state socialist period but gained little attention from popular music scholars because it was regarded as being of low quality and politically conformist.
Polish estrada music dominated Polish popular music throughout the state socialist period but gained little attention from popular music scholars because it was regarded as being of low quality and politically conformist.
This book examines the processes of transition from authoritarian rule in Tunisia and Egypt between 2011 and 2014, arguing that differences between the two countries can be explained by the conduct of their respective political parties.
More African women than men become entrepreneurs, with women often balancing time caring for their households with small enterprises such as setting up shops in front of their homes, renting market stalls, or setting up hairstyling businesses.
Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built environment: the vast public housing programme sponsored by successive Hong Kong governments from the 1950s, in a quest to build up the territory into a lasting 'people's home'.
This book examines the processes of transition from authoritarian rule in Tunisia and Egypt between 2011 and 2014, arguing that differences between the two countries can be explained by the conduct of their respective political parties.
This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.
This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called 'World Cinema' and, eventually, 'Global Cinema.
This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country.
Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
This book explores the manifold ways that the current confrontations between China and the US, and political tensions within the Special Administrative Region (SAR) has brought Hong Kong to the forefront of emerging political frictions between Beijing and the territory and growing international rivalry between the two powerful nations of the world.
A new supplement for Bolt Action focusing on the later Italian Campaign, following on from Soft Underbelly, adding new units, scenarios, and special rules.
This book provides a comprehensive survey of Qur'an translation in Indonesia - the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world with a highly diverse, multilingual society.
This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi'a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East.
Originally published in 1959 by a former Governor of Uganda and Head of the Africa Division of the former Colonial Office, this book is a concise exposition of British aims and methods in colonial Africa and the extent of British influence, and the way the region was administered before the war with insufficient staff and money.
A new supplement for Bolt Action focusing on the later Italian Campaign, following on from Soft Underbelly, adding new units, scenarios, and special rules.
Originally published in 1961, this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put.
Desde hace apenas un par de décadas, la prensa internacional comenzó a hablar del BRICS (inicialmente BRIC) para referirse a los países emergentes con mayor crecimiento económico en los últimos años: Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica; pero, ¿qué sabemos sobre el grupo?
Political Change in Greece (1987) surveys the state of politics in Greece as it joined the EEC, experienced a socialist government, and faced changes in its relations within NATO.
Originally published in 1961, this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put.
Political Change in Greece (1987) surveys the state of politics in Greece as it joined the EEC, experienced a socialist government, and faced changes in its relations within NATO.
This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called 'World Cinema' and, eventually, 'Global Cinema.
This volume presents the latest developments in the field of political psychology by exploring the psychological processes that underlie political instability and how these can be addressed with psychological interventions.
