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Environmental devastation, a significant consequence of industrial activity in Soviet times, continues to be a major problem in Russia. Specific problems include radioactive pollutants from inadequately monitored nuclear plants, illegal logging and...

While high school drop-out rates have steadily declined among white and African American students over the 1970s and 1980s a constant 35 percent of Latino students continued to quit school before graduation. In this pioneering work, Harriett Romo and...

In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there - be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen - breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the...

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection...

This title was first published in 2003. A fascinating insight into the economic, social and political processes that shaped the lives of white workers in Johannesburg between the beginning of deep level mining (c. 1890) and the 1922 Rand Revolt miners'...

China's extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living in cities rising from 18% in 1978 to 54% in 2014. Currently the Chinese government has amongst its...

Since its Independence in 1971, Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in terms of reducing poverty levels, achieving high levels of economic growth over a sustained period of time, and meeting its Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets set by the...

In the past three decades, China has successfully transformed itself from an extremely poor economy to the world's second largest economy. The country's phenomenal economic growth has been sustained primarily by its rapid and continuous industrialisation...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780947593124Author G. BosFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint RoutledgeCurzonPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 350g

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Indians in the United States and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of...

Go beyond cookie-cutter therapy and interventions to provide culturally relevant therapy that works for your clients in interracial relationships! With this book, you'll explore an array of relational issues faced by various configurations of...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700709007Author John R. KruegerFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 330g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708772Author Stephen FoltinyFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 440g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708369Author Nicholas PoppeFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 385g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708376Author Robert A. RupenFormat HardbackPage Count 714Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1480g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708383Author James E. BossonFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 660g

This comprehensive set includes thorough examinations of the QurA!n in Wherry's essential four volume commentary. There is also an excellent overview of Islam by the well known scholar Edward Sell, The Faith of Islam which examines the history of Islam,...

Questions of the social implications of biotechnology and biological exchange (the extraction of human tissues such as blood, skin and organs for testing, storage and/or distribution for therapeutic or research purposes) have recently been brought...

This informative book discusses the effects of the rise of Chinese capitalism on both China itself, and on its neighbours. Incorporating empirical data collated from interviews in several Asian societies and from historical Chinese sources, this renowned...

India ranks third in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally. The country has high levels of poverty and inequality, poor healthcare infrastructure, especially away from the metropolitan areas, and a legacy of colonialism that bequeathed laws...

Published in 2000, The Classical Poetry of the Japanese is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies. Book InformationISBN 9780415245326Author Basil Hall ChamberlainFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic...

Against the powerful image of Japan as a rising economic superpower, or even, in Ezra Vogel's influential formulation a deade ago, "Japan as number 1", this book explores the fragility, hubris and human and environmental costs of Japan's desperate drive...

This book provides critical insights into the many, often overlooked, challenges and societal issues that face contemporary black men, focusing in particular on the ways in which governing societal expectations result in internal and external constraints...

The Russian Far East was a remarkably fluid region in the period leading up to, during, and after the Russian Revolution. The different contenders in play in the region, imagining and working toward alternative futures, comprised different national...

Based on extensive studies into child welfare services, this important book brings together research into what works in service provision for minority ethnic families. Reviewing studies of the nature and adequacy of the services provided, and the...

Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy. However, its economic growth has generated rising problems in inequality, alienation, and sustainability with the agrarian crises of...

How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang's...

The first fully-fledged ethnography on health-related issues to come out of contemporary Vietnam, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries is a study of women's lives in a rural commune in Vietnam's Red River delta. Starting as an examination of the impact of...

China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the...

This title was first published in 1982.Book InformationISBN 9781138045460Author K.K FungFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947593476Author Francois De BloisFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & IrelandPublisher Royal Asiatic Society of...

The period of Japanese history before the advent of industrialisation and modernism is of tremendous interest. The essays in this collection show a fascination with the social context behind the development of aesthetics, drama, language, art and...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700709373Author Susan HesseFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 410g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700709366Author Kaare GronbechFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 520g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708796Author V. V. RadloffFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1020g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708727Author Jaakko AhokasFormat HardbackPage Count 582Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 952g

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708581Author Kuo-yi PaoFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 362g

China's one-child family policy has been applauded by demographers and condemned by human rights activists. This study argues that most city district Chinese women would prefer more children yet comply with the one-child policy because they accept the...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780700708512Author Janos GulyaFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 430g