Regional / International studies

This book presents the Entrepreneurship Viability Index (EVI) as a focal point to define other novel indices.

This book considers the importance of African values, not only in catalysing development, but in sustaining it.

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The Maginot Line was the last great gun-bearing line of subterranean forts built before World War II.

Following the end of World War II, 500,000 American troops occupied every prefecture of Japan and interracial marriages occurred.

First published in 1998, the aims of this book are: the comparison of community care service and financing systems, the comparison of reform arguments and history over the last decade, the comparison of who uses how much of what services, and with what impact on their needs and the probability of having to enter institutions for long-term care.

A political economy analysis of the history of food security in the Arab world, including the role played by the global food price crisis in the Arab Spring and the Arab response aiming at greater food sovereignty via domestic food production and land acquisition overseas - the so-called land grab.

This book discusses the theory, method, and practice of risk economics and also examines climate change and disaster's theoretical and practical implications on capital formation and accumulation in the contemporary economic system.

Traditional crafts have been an essential part of Indian history, culture and life.

Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Helio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.

In 1940 Brummett Echohawk, an eighteen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard.

An illustrated exploration of the development, technology and operations of Wilde Sau fighters in the night skies over Germany during the Defence of the Reich.

The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare.

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths.

The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the recent finding of her wreck.

'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.

Focusing on the practice of journalism in modern China, this book studies the history of modern Chinese journalism and gives insights on its culture and value.

This book connects the work of US private foundations, the US government, and Brazilian intellectuals to explore how they worked collaboratively to address racial disparities in Brazil during the Cold War.

In this book, the difficult problems of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa are examined by the farming systems approach, which aims to improve food production under adverse conditions through agronomic and social science research conducted on the farm.

This volume describes the unique development of Central Asia as defined by its landlocked geography.

This book explores multiple fields and disciplines around the theme of South Korea's engagement and exchanges with global society focusing on development cooperation, migration and the media.

This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subaltern jobs.

This book is an ethnographic study of Carribean youth in New York City to help explain how and why schools and cities are failing boys of color.

Originally published in 1998.

This book examines Senegal's industrial labor market and relates its principal features, together with the structure of enterprise ownership and government policies, to the country's economic performance.

This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subaltern jobs.

This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology.

This book explores multiple fields and disciplines around the theme of South Korea's engagement and exchanges with global society focusing on development cooperation, migration and the media.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s.

This volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent nationalist population in Northern Ireland into a counterpublic of resistance demanding national self-determination and social justice.

This book attempts to document and analyse the complicated role new media play in the adaptation and integration of China's new generation of migrant workers.

This book discusses social, institutional, legal, cultural and political topics relating to the West Bank to demystify the treatment of the highly contentious subject.

This volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent nationalist population in Northern Ireland into a counterpublic of resistance demanding national self-determination and social justice.

This book discusses important aspects of fixed income securities in emerging economies.

This book describes the basis of Swazi traditional life and examines how modern values are influencing change.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance.

To his enlisted men on U-154, Lieutenant Oskar Kusch was the ideal skipper-bright, experienced, successful, caring, tolerably eccentric-and a popular captain who always brought his boat home safely when so many others vanished without a trace.

Confederate monuments figure prominently as epicenters of social conflict.

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.

This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII.

'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of MosquitoSummer 1939.

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This edited volume presents a model that embraces four components of reflective practice: planning, acting, reflecting and evaluating.

This book analyzes the international relations of Mexico and the two most important sub-state governments of the United States, California and Texas.

2024 OUTREACH RESOURCE OF THE YEAR (EVANGELISM)An essential guide in the art and instruction of issuing Christ's invitation to the lost.

The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East.

This book delves beyond the spectacular images of African migrants struggling to scale border fences or cross the Mediterranean in unseaworthy rubber dinghies by unpacking the policies and emerging practices that shape contemporary border governance in the expanding EU-African borderlands.