Jacob Bercovitch 
Theory and Practice of International Mediation [EPUB ebook] 
Selected Essays

Based on new source material available in both England and India, India »s Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the British Empire. The freeing of India from British rule …

Retaining the conceptual framework of the first edition through emphasis on the dual themes of continuity and change, the second edition of Libya is revised and updated to include discussion of key d …

When China opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, Western businesses jumped at the chance to sell their products to the most populous nation in the world. Boardrooms everywhere buzzed with e …

The importance of Lutfi al-Khuli and the intellectual circle associated with the Nasserist regime is examined here. Rami Ginat looks at al-Khuli »s contribution to the short-lived yet formidable succ …

Anantadas is the first  »biographer » who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a b …

In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our tolerance for it, somewhat differently, but we might all …

What do search engines do? And what should they do? These questions seem relatively simple but are actually urgent social and ethical issues. The influence of Google »s search engine is enormous. It …

A key factor in Korea »s economic success is the nature of industrial relations in Korean business and industry. Joo-Yeon Jeong presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of industrial rela …

For the past 50 years, the main goal of agriculture has been to increase production at any price, using high amounts of fertilizers and pesticides and intensive industrial methods. This has caused da …

This book offers a mainly factual outline of the results of study, mainly within the last forty years, of these aspects of Scottish history, hitherto scattered through many specialised books and arti …