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Impassable roads, poorly maintained railways, bankrupt airlines, congested cities, and inefficient ports – are there links between these issues and lack of economic progress in developing countries? …

First Published in 2004. This text argues that there is nothing obvious or natural about our ideas of sex and race and looks at the evolution of these ideas. The author contends that the slow crystal …

A stimulating new analysis of the dramatic systemic changes of the Russian state, principles of the governance and its foreign policy orientation. It reviews the extent of changes in Russian approach …

This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing pa …

The world”s poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn”t improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experien …

The Horn of Africa has long been one of the most dynamic and politically turbulent sub-regions on the African continent.　 Host to great ancient civilizations, diverse peoples, and expansive states, t …

Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue against abortion at length, and the first surviving Latin author to consider the unborn child in detail. This book is the first compr …

Whilst there are popular ideas about which champion Aboriginal environmental knowledge, many of these are based more on romantic notions than on any detailed understanding of what might be the conten …

Beginning with the basic premise that public relations can best be understood as a specialized type of communication, the contributors to this volume establish public relations as a vital and viable …

India is growing into one of Asia’s most important military powers. Its defence budget has more than doubled in the past decade, and it imports more arms than anyone else in the world. But India is s …