Thad Dunning 
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences [EPUB ebook] 
A Design-Based Approach

When a boy realises the grown-ups are killing animals and that he has been eating their bodies, he gives up meat. But should he share the truth and break another child’s heart? As a youth he wants to …

Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart – the spirit – of Africa did not stop beating in the New …

The chapters in this latest edition of China Briefing reflect broadly on China”s transformation in the twentieth century. The authors not only examine developments in China over the 1997-1999 …

Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political considerations. The multi-faceted nature of housing re …

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an …

The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as ”post-Stalinism” or a forerunner of subsequent ”thaws” and ”reform from within”. This book provides a …

Thailand Beyond the Crisis includes recent research to give an accurate and up to date picture of the status of Thailand”s economic recovery. The Asian economic crisis began in Thailand and ended a …

Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku (‘The Rose Tribes’), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and n …

Indian culture relies greatly on visual expression, and this book uses both classical Indian and contemporary Western philosophies and current studies on cognitive sciences, and applies them to conte …

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa …