Michel Paty 
La physique du XXe siècle [PDF ebook] 

In The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War award-winning journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa has been the single most destructive element in the continent” …

This book provides an important case study of how local cultures, religions and spiritualities can enhance development activities, and provide helpful frameworks for contemporary societies facing the …

Have you ever done something stupid, dangerous or self-sabotaging just to get one over someone else? Most of us have. Simon Mc Carthy-Jones draws on psychology, current affairs, literature and geneti …

The contributions in this volume were mostly first presented at the conference ’Research on Nestorianism in China. Zhongguo jingjiao yanjiu 中國景教研究’ held in Salzburg, 20– 26 May 2003. Like the confere …

What exactly is ”small change”? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it – that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book …

First Published in 1996. This study is the outcome of eight-months” fieldwork in Beijing, the capital of the People”s Republic of China (PRC), from 8 November 1988 to 17 June 1989. The original pur …

The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governa …

This book explores the administration of Iran under Mongol rule through taxation and monetary policy. A consistent development is evident only from abundant numismatic material, from the conquest of …

First published in 2007. The great interest of this volume is that it predates the establishment of the state of Israel. It is devoted to what was then called Palestine, and to ”Transjordan”, the l …

First Published in 1999. For This Land, edited and with an introduction by James Treat, brings together over thirty years of the work of Vine Deloria, Jr., regarded as one of the most important livin …