Jaume Navarro 
History of the Electron [PDF ebook] 
J. J. and G. P. Thomson

When China opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, Western businesses jumped at the chance to sell their products to the most populous nation in the world. Boardrooms everywhere buzzed with e …

Retaining the conceptual framework of the first edition through emphasis on the dual themes of continuity and change, the second edition of Libya is revised and updated to include discussion of key d …

For the past 50 years, the main goal of agriculture has been to increase production at any price, using high amounts of fertilizers and pesticides and intensive industrial methods. This has caused da …

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with deve …

Discusses the status of children in society from the mid-Victorian period to the end of the First World War, showing that children were regarded principally as objects to be used and abused rather th …

Finding life’s secret is not the exclusive domain of conventional medical research; living longer is a personal experience and only the one who has experienced longevity is able to explain its secret …

The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, …

Anantadas is the first ”biographer” who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a b …

Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or ”tariqa”, the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating …

This book analyzes the relationship between Western and Islamic political ideas. The focus is on the similarities and differences between Western liberal democracy and shura – often seen as the Islam …