Manuel Acevedo-Ruiz & Fran Equiza-Lopez 
Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF ebook] 

It can be easy to think that we live in a daylight world – we see the flowers, hear the birds, watch butterflies then we go to bed and it all stops. Or rather, we stop paying attention. However, what …

This book reflects the argument on agrarian transformation in Egypt. It focuses on the role of agricultural mechanization in the labor process in rural Egypt. The book emphasizes the changing role of …

This book defines what Io T Systems manageability looks like and what the associated resources and costs are of that manageability. It identifies Io T Systems performance expectations and addresses t …

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, tran …

This book explains how the U.S. federal system manages environmental health issues, with a unique focus on risk management and human health outcomes. Building on a generic approach for understandin …

This volume focuses on Sun Yat-sen“s social, political, and economic ideas as seen in his major work, The Three Principles of the People, which discusses nationalism, democracy, and people“s …

This study examines the extent to which new political thinking has been applied to Soviet policy in the Middle East and aims to speculate about the possible impact of any changes on patterns of …

This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa. African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th c …

“Everyone who loves the sea and what“s in it should own this book.“ – Bill Bryson From the blue whale to the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, this handbook is the most comprehensive, authoritati …

Zoning is at once a key technical competency of urban planning practice and a highly politicized regulatory tool. How this contradiction between the technical and political is resolved has wide-reach …