Thad Dunning 
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences [PDF 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 …

This book explores the contribution of women to the development of housing management in the 20th century. It outlines tactics and strategies of organization and factors which have seemed to help or …

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 …

In this ground-breaking authoritative study, a highly documented and incisive analysis is made of the galvanising changes wrought to the people and landscape of British Mandated Palestine (1929-1948) …