Sandeep Kaur & M. Srihari 
Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society [EPUB ebook] 

The contributors to this book investigate migration governance in Asia through a multilevel analysis, addressing its local, national and regional dimensions as well as placing it in the wider context …

Both in everyday language and religious metaphor, the heart often embodies the true self and is considered to be the seat of emotion in many cultures. Many Muslim thinkers have attempted to clarify t …

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 …

This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that ”double belief”, dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing …

With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the configuration of the world economy, with speed a determini …

Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected …

Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimatel …

This book, the first of its kind to treat Uganda, provides a historical analysis of the role of student voices in the development of Uganda”s higher education. It not only chronicles incidents of st …

A study of nation-building processes in the young state of Papua New Guinea, and of opposition to these in one of the country”s peripheral provinces, Manus. Intense resistance to Lucifer (the state) …

In the spring of 1865, when Japan was in the grip of a major civil war, eighteen samurai and an interpreter risked their lives to embark secretly on a voyage to the unknown lands of the barbarian wes …