Information Resources Management Association 
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice [PDF ebook] 

The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, Oxy Contin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic pain management. By 20 …

First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-v …

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, …

The increasing centrality of memory to work being done across a wide range of disciplines has brought along with it vexed questions and far-reaching changes in the way knowledge is pursued. This time …

This essay is the work of a social anthropologist but it is not based upon field work. It is concerned with Chinese matters but it is not written by a sinologue. In this essay are the author’s reflec …

This book addresses the nature, purpose and processes associated with social impact analysis. Because resource development projects occur in human as well as ecological environments, stakeholders – l …

An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru. …

First Published in 1992. Health care is currently under intense pressure both to be cost-effective and to deliver a service its users want. This text is an important contribution to the debate about …

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. The author spent July 1981 to February 1983 in Fiji, eighteen months of the time being spent in the chiefly village of Saw …

Immigration is currently one of the most vivid challenges the European Union faces. Ways of introducing new migrants to society and economy pose significant challenges, thus some guidelines for the p …