Eran Ben-Joseph & Terry S. Szold 
Regulating Place [PDF ebook] 
Standards and the Shaping of Urban America

The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct »fifth wave» of modern terrorism, here called the ‘New Tribalism’. Terrorist Groups and …

The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy-making across the world. International bodies such as the WHO, UNAID …

Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO access …

China»s fifty-five officially recognised ethnic minorities form about 8% of the Chinese population, with over 100 million people, and occupy over 60% of China»s territory. They are very diverse, an …

This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination – a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world. It asks the controversia …

Will national independence bring to the peoples of South East Asia liberty and democracy? Or will it mean corrupt government, factional strife and insolvency? Or will it mean eventual absorption by t …

This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity – their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed – on the basis of a critical …

Providing a fresh examination of the nature of Third World development, the author focuses on the characteristics of particular places and regions and their influences on behaviour. This is an import …

Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers» behavior and locates their act …

Contemporary Islam provides a counterweight to the prevailing opinions of Islamic thought as conservative and static with a preference for violence over dialogue. It gathers together a collection of …