Ian Glover 
Engineers in Britain [PDF ebook] 
A Sociological Study of the Engineering Dimension

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 …

‘Beautiful, useful, inspirational’ BBC Wildlife Book of the Month ‘A delight on every page’ Evening Standard In 1664, the horticulturist and diarist John Evelyn wrote Sylva, the first compre …

This innovative book examines radicalization from new psychological perspectives by examining the different typologies of radicalizing individuals, what makes individuals resilient against radicaliza …

Offering a comprehensive analysis of the human right to development and its realistic application in an era of economic globalization, Daniel Aguirre provides a multidisciplinary overview of economic …

Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple, accessible guide for considering, creating, and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation. The book connects social valu …

Containing data on number theory, encryption schemes, and cyclic codes, this highly successful textbook, proven by the authors in a popular two-quarter course, presents coding theory, construction, …

While evaluating competing theories of why countries become democratic, this study argues why China has not democratized. Also discusses are the Communist Party»s methods of social control and …

This book develops a new framework — the stakeholder model — that helps to understand corporate finance and governance in modern society, where the sources of people’s happiness have shifted from mon …

The Sino-Japanese crisis of 1931-33 provides effective illustrations of wider themes in British Foreign Policy. It might even be said that the general pattern of opinion in the UK at the time was to …

Okinawan people have developed a unique tradition of protest in their long history of oppression and marginalization. Beginning with the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan in the late nineteenth ce …