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This book explores identity-mediated dynamics of food and nutrition entitlement in urban India analysing concerns around equity, access to food and public health. The issues of disentitlement and ide …

Why is life like a poker game? How did a failed robbery help to explain human nature? Why are we so certain bad men will win – and yet we’re so wrong? In this, the third volume of The Secrets of Life …

It was written by way of Louis Legrand Noble. "After Icebergs with a Painter" is a charming journey tale. Noble talks about his ride to the Arctic with the American panorama painter William …

The appeal to ”our obligations to future generations” is one of the most forceful, emotional and effective arguments available to politicians and citizens and is the cornerstone of all modern polic …

Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve g …

The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35, 000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented …

Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China”s Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China”s Christian commun …

Considering the enormous problems of the Balkans during the 1990s, the experts who contributed to this study believe that there are solutions to the seemingly intractable situation and the legacy of …

Based on anthropological fieldwork in the 1990s, this book provides an ethnographic perspective in its examination of the politics and policies of cultural tourism as they were played out under the I …

This is the recording of a six month long journey to Persia as well as previous travels in neighbouring areas. The book also describes the communications maintained with the Persian authorities. …