Zheng Yangwen 
Social Life of Opium in China [PDF ebook] 

This candid book documents for the first time the U.S. Navy’s use of entrapment in pursuit of homosexuals in and around Newport, Rhode Island, during the early twentieth century. This most extensive …

Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness: Dealing with a Changing World offers a description of the current state of Command and Control (C2) research in imperfect settings, showing how a research …

The Elusive Peace, first published in 1979, highlights the crucial developments in the Middle East during the twentieth century: the coming of nationalism, the struggle for independence, the effects …

Throughout history, Central Asia has formed an important strategic link between the East and the West and been described as the ‘great pivot’ in the early-twentieth century. This book looks at the re …

The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world”s leading authorities on gender shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe …

First Published in 2004. ‘The Face of Fashion’ is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennife …

First published in 2006. Who and what are the ”indigenous people”? The question has become highly contentious in India today, where eighty million peoples belonging to the state category of ”sched …

First published in 1976, this book examines the issue of rural education, an all-important problem for the less developed countries in the world. Louis Malassis proposes that all citizens should be m …

Demilitarization of conflict and society is crucial to building sustainable peace in countries emerging from the scourge of civil war. As longstanding conflicts come to an end, processes which facili …

This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mo …