Joe Karaganis 
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Have you ever done something stupid, dangerous or self-sabotaging just to get one over someone else? Most of us have. Simon Mc Carthy-Jones draws on psychology, current affairs, literature and geneti …

The contributions in this volume were mostly first presented at the conference ‚Research on Nestorianism in China. Zhongguo jingjiao yanjiu 中國景教研究‘ held in Salzburg, 20– 26 May 2003. Like the confere …

First Published in 1996. This study is the outcome of eight-months“ fieldwork in Beijing, the capital of the People“s Republic of China (PRC), from 8 November 1988 to 17 June 1989. The original pur …

The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governa …

This book explores the administration of Iran under Mongol rule through taxation and monetary policy. A consistent development is evident only from abundant numismatic material, from the conquest of …

First published in 2007. The great interest of this volume is that it predates the establishment of the state of Israel. It is devoted to what was then called Palestine, and to “Transjordan“, the l …

Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depi …

First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution o …

This is the first complete study of China“s most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan“s revolutionary reinterpretation …

The tragedies of war, famine, disease and poverty continue to dominate our headlines. Faced with such tragedy, the politics, ethics, even the economics of humanitarian aid are becoming more complex. …