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Why are humans neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we’re asked if the world’s getting better? In this, th …

"The Ultimate Power Query Cookbook for Power BI and Excel" serves up easy-to-follow recipes that transform data into meaningful insights. You will learn to clean messy files, combine datase …

The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India’s foreign and security policies as representati …

Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine …

A presentation of detailed comparative research into the implementation in 11 European countries of Local Agenda 21 – the action plan for sustainable development at community level. Overviews of impl …

The ongoing changes in population, climate, and the availability of energy have resulted in unprecedented threats and opportunities that all project and program managers, portfolio managers, and publ …

This book examines the many attempts over the last three decades to revise Japan’s constitution. As the book shows, these attempts at revision have been relatively conservative, aiming to embed in th …

This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative ap …

This handbook for practitioners in environmental and public health, environmental management, toxicology and ecotoxicology has been prepared by an international group of experts from both developing …

What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journ …