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Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged as a key factor which may affect future development.

The expanding interdependencies of the world's diverse and divided populations have created a world society.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

There is a large literature dealing with the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to emerging and developing economies at the aggregate level.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

First published in 1937.

For long library and information technology seems to have meant little more than knowing what tasks had to be performed in libraries and being able to do; only of late did management come to be concerned with such abstractions as planning, controlling, coordinating, etc.

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.

Fairness of wage distribution - or the perception of such - is a phenomenon crucial for the stability of new democracies.

Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises.

Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course, According to latest research, Europeans who consider religious services appropriate to mark life passages significantly outnumber those who declare themselves as believers.

This 2007 text examines the problem of national identity formation in the context of globalization.

Der Hauptteil umfasst knapp 100 Dokumente in den fünf gesonderten Themenblöcken, die das Handeln des preußischen Kultusministeriums bzw.

The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge.

By imparting crucial insights into the digital evolution of far-right extremism and its challenges, this book explores how far-right extremism has transformed, utilising digital spaces for communication and employing coded language to evade detection.

Jobs that were once well-defined are now multifaceted.

This book provides a rich, detailed analysis of the experiences of young women growing up in post-colonial, rapidly modernizing Malaysia.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

Across organisations and communities there are leaders who manage to get things done through their ability to understand how a network of individuals connect, who to talk to and how to bring people together in the right constellation of effort.

Annually sponsored by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Crypt- ogy (KIISC), the fourth International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC2001) was held at the 63 Building in Seoul, Korea, Dec- ber 6-7, 2001.

Im Vergleich zum stationären Betrieb stellen Ausgleichsvorgänge in Netzen eine erhöhte Beanspruchung der Betriebsmittel dar.

Founded by Sayyid Ahmad (1786-1831) of Rae Bareli, the Wahhabi Movement in India was a vigorous movement for socio-religious reforms in Indo-Islamic society in the nineteenth century with strong political undercurrents.

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.

This book studies the composition or structure of Surat Maryam - the 19th sura of the Qur'an - according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric.

Linear programming is a relatively modern branch of Mathe- matics, which is a result of the more scientific approach to management and planning of the post-war era.

Ensuring equity in healthcare is the main concern of health policymakers in order to provide a sustainable health system.

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date.

Handbook of Contemporary China is a convenient reference in one single volume that offers comprehensive overviews of crucial cultural dimensions and key institutions of China.

With the use of wide-ranging case studies the author clearly illustrates the impact of schemes intended to re-allocate land in developing countries.

This book discusses how face-to-face interaction via the Internet affects what we can and will do, and its limitations and potential benefits.

Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics.

A Polynomial Approach to Linear Algebra is a text which is heavily biased towards functional methods.

The Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition is famous for its depth of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity.

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, provides an authoritative introduction and overview of the latest research in cellular automata (CA) models of physical systems, emergent phenomena, computational universality, chaos, growth phenomena, phase transitions, self-organised criticality, reaction-diffusion systems, self-replications, parallel computation, and more.

In answer to the perennial question "e;What else should I read?

This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era.

This book presents mathematical models of mob control with threshold (conformity) collective decision-making of the agents.

This book explores efforts being made to create Russian-American cooperation in managing recurrent conflict in the Middle East.

This is an essential practical guide for all information professionals who want to get to grips with or improve their use of mobile services.

Master the essentials of cryptography and cryptanalysis and learn how to put them to practical use.

Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in April 2009, quickly establishing a large and volatile social movement.

The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history.

Forty-three women who have made major contributions to the law through their work in the legal profession, scholarly legal research, and political activism directed at socio-legal reforms are profiled in this bio-bibliographical sourcebook.

The Conservation and Restoration of Ceramics brings together the wide range of current information relevant to the practising conservator.