David C. Thorns 
Fragmenting Societies? [PDF ebook] 
A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development

From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which n …

The end of the Cold War forced Western donors to rethink their aid relations with Africa. This book looks at two of these donors, France and Britain, and asks whether the development programmes of th …

A broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel. The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the ‘why’ of this aliya which constitut …

In this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or ”small-scale”, cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics. Topics such as ”Number …

In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, ca …

Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of pol …

`The Prevention Society” is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connect …

Cash transfers are but one form of income supplementation, and a fuller presentation of antipoverty proposals would include both transfers in-kind (such as food, housing, and medical care) and human …

When Men in Groups was first published in l969, the New York Times daily critic titled his review ‘The Disturbing Rediscovery of the Obvious.’ What was so obvious was male bonding, a phrase that ente …

In the vast anthropological literature devoted to hunter-gatherer societies, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the place of hunter-gatherer children. Children often represent 40 percent …