Society and culture: general

In Moral Pressure for Responsible Globalization, Sherrie M.

The historical and cultural role of the Aramaeans in ancient Syria can hardly be overestimated.

From the dawn of humanity, the desire to control the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of others has been a pervasive one.

Greater Magadha, roughly the eastern part of the Gangetic plain of northern India, has so far been looked upon as deeply indebted to Brahmanical culture.

This book starts from the assumption that futures thinking is difficult, yet of existential necessity.

This book offers geospatial modelling techniques for the analysis of healthcare in poor urban neighborhoods and of the ways that residents of these neighborhoods make healthcare choices and cope with deprivation.

This second of the three-volume Who's Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia.

This book explores recent advances in heavy metal contamination research in a global context, and focusses on the role of recent technologies like recombinant bioremediation, phytoremediation, DNA technology and nanotechnology to provide sustainable managing strategies to mitigate adverse environmental and health impacts.

Quoting from a reader's report "e;this is an original and compelling synthesis of the environmental history of Korea and Japan.