Society and Social Sciences

Kenya's Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was put into effect as Kenya's history as a colonial possession came to an end.

Water for the Thousand Millions focuses on the distribution of safe water through effective water supply technology.

With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.

Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus und Gewalt sind nicht nur ein Problem der Jugend, auch wenn das Phänomen vor allem bei jungen Männern besonders spektakulär in Erscheinung tritt und sich die Aufmerksamkeit seit geraumer Zeit sehr stark darauf konzentriert.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

Until the 1990s, almost all spectrum licenses were given away practically for free-even the first mobile licenses which laid the foundation for multi-billion dollar companies that dominate stock markets around the world.

Over 250 Princeton alumni and friends from 17 countries and from classes spanning a 66-year period attended the Conference.

Women in the thraldom of man has led sometimes, in one form or another, to the most horrible abuses.

Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year).

This book traces the roots of Thailand''s political development from 1932 to the present, accounting for the intervening period''s political turmoil.

This book uniquely describes the work of two Early Years Professionals, drawing on their narrative accounts as they robustly describe and analyse their work with young children.

Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores how the jobs of the 'seamstress' evolved in scope, and status, between 1600-1900.

The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt.

Patrick Barr-Melej here illuminates modern Chilean history with an unprecedented chronicle and reassessment of the sixties and seventies.

Mit der Verbindung von Inklusion und Partizipation setzen die Herausgeberinnen einen neuen Akzent in der Inklusionsdebatte.

Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women.

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.

This book discusses some of the innumerable ways in which computational methods can be used to facilitate research in biology and medicine - from storing enormous amounts of biological data to solving complex biological problems and enhancing treatment of various grave diseases.

The "e;Arab Spring"e; was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions.

Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.

This book explores why democratization processes in Sub-Saharan Africa have made so little progress despite more than two decades of multi-party politics on the subcontinent.

This is a book for anyone who has ever considered engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning - known familiarly as SoTL - and needs a better understanding of what it is, and how to engage in it.

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America.

this book focuses on religion and politics and the dynamic interactions between them.

This report examines the fundamental link between Mexico's economic performance and migration to the United States, with a particular focus on the post-NAFTA time period.

This yearbook on education for 2001 brings together leading international voices on values in education and presents a window on current debates.

West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.

What is artificial intelligence?

This book explores LGBQTNB people''s relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

The world abounds with tricksters, swindlers, and impostors.

Ongoing Advancements in Philosophy of Mathematics Education approaches the philosophy of mathematics education in a forward movement, analyzing, reflecting, and proposing significant contemporary themes in the field of mathematics education.

'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced.

On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors.

Justice for Victims brings together the world's leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection.

This is Volume III of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology.

These 50 tales take just minutes to read but amply illustrate scientific principles and the evolution of science through history.

Offering research on afterschool literacy programs designed around teacher-student collaborative inquiry groups, this book demonstrates how adolescent learning is uniquely successful when grounded in dialogic conversation.

The essays in this edited volume seek to understand the regional and international ramifications of the wave of protest demonstrations that swept across West Asia and North Africa in the early 2010s, both on the ground and online.

This book explores, in a series of detailedcase studies, how public policy is actually made in Qatar.

This collection assesses the legal developments which have taken place since the 1980s in China.

Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty.

This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition.

State of the Art of Research on Down Syndrome, Volume 56, the latest release in the International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on the Genetics and Genomics of Down Syndrome, Motor Development and Down Syndrome, Cognitive Profiles in Individuals with Down syndrome, Working Memory and Down syndrome, Environment Learning in Individuals with Down syndrome, Reading for Comprehension: The Contribution of Decoding, Linguistic and Cognitive Skills, Number Sense in Down syndrome, Early Starting States in Infants with Down Syndrome: Implications for Research and Practice, and more.

This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming.

This book explores innovative approaches to using and operating within and around both criminal law and civil law in the detection, investigation, and restitution of illicit cultural property.

Edited collection featuring essays from exceptional National Teaching Fellows.

PAUL POPE 's new graphic novel Battling Boy debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and the original art is now the focus of a series of traveling art exhibits in the United States and Europe.