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When BBC Radio 4»s Material World programme announced a search for the UK»s top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pes …

The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35, 000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented …

Communication Yearbook 37 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents a volume that is highly international and interdisc …

This comprehensive volume analyses Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People»s Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on China»s »Hardship Numbe …

Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcef …

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movemen …

This work offers analytical examination of the facts that will shape the India of the future and determine whether India emerges as Asia»s new economic tiger, a stabilizing factor in a turbulent reg …

This comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the Korean economy combines an historical approach with a substantial treatment of the new economy. Its fresh analysis of the recent …

This volume examines the Kurdish question in Turkey, tracing its developments from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. The study considers: secession; federal schemes; various forms of …

This book examines and analyses the legitimacy of the widely held claim that Mulla Sadra»s philosophy (al-hikmah al-muta»aliyyah) is a synthesis of principles and doctrines drawn from revelation (w …