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This book presents papers on the recycling of funds from surplus to deficit countries; stabilizing the existing International Financial System; securing an adequate level of investment return for surplus countries; the role of the special drawing rights;...

This book describes the Pathways project that traces the individual development of several black young men from poor families who grew up in the Roxbury/North Dorchester ghetto from 1967 to 1974. It is about aspects of self-perception and identity, and...

This book will help students of German language, literature, and civilization to develop their skills in using the resources and services of college and university libraries. Not restricted to the traditional study of German language and literature, the...

This book presents the history of one of the key debates in the continuing effort to develop a legal framework for intellectual property rights in the burgeoning computer software industry. It is the first full account of the interoperability debate-the...

Tiddens' job is to track (one might suspect, to advance) the financial prospects for American companies cultivating aquatic plants and animals. He surveys the support currently available from state and federal governments and scientific institutions and...

This book focuses on the political-economic dimensions of the food crisis, with case studies from the four regions-Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East-of the Third World. It examines various international factors that influence agricultural...

This book reproduces the seven invited papers that were prepared for the Cornell University Medical College Eighth Conference on Health Policy on the theme medical care and the health of the poor. The topics included looks at physician supply, clinical...

Forty years after school integration became the law of the land, African-American poverty, isolation, and despair are as deep as ever. Thirty years after the environmental revolution of the 1960s, our environment continues to deteriorate. Why have these...

During the past decade, homelessness became a widespread phenomenon in the United States for the first time since the Great Depression. The public frequently blamed the poor for their plight. Journalistic and academic accounts, in contrast, often evoked...

In recent years, a flurry of "poststructuralist," "post-Marxist," and "statecentered" approaches have emerged in historical and sociological scholarship. Far from ignoring these developments, the study of class has shaped...

This book examines the foundations of the system for owning and taxing agricultural land in the United States. It considers the conditions of land policy at several levels of government and questions some of the historical views of progress.Book...

Addressing the major issues surrounding the use of nuclear power, twenty-nine social scientists with extensive involvement in the assessment and management of nuclear technology discuss critical areas of concern--problem recognition, risk estimation, and...

Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance-arguing that African American newspapers fostered black...

Part literary history, part cultural study, Grounds of Engagement examines the relationships and exchanges between black South African and African American writers who sought to create common ground throughout the antiapartheid era. Stephane Robolin...

From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state,...

In this new volume, Michael A. Pagano curates essays focusing on the neighborhood's role in urban policy solutions. The papers emerged from dynamic discussions among policymakers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2014 UIC Urban...

Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical...

In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans...

Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190917036Author Marc DixonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

This volume examines fundamental issues of macro-engineering-now a planetary norm-from the viewpoints of psychiatry, social science, management, and law. The contributors suggest a general theory to guide future decisions on large-scale projects and...

First published in 1998, creating a discourse on community care, differences in of care management; links between assessment, secondary health care and care management by addressing several areas which provide opportunities for successful service...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786202527491Author Luc KabongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Illegal Immigration Relief Act (IIRA), passed in the small Rustbelt city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 2006, was a local ordinance that laid out penalties for renting to or hiring undocumented immigrants and declared English the city's official...

This book examines the modernization process with particular attention to how it is affected by cultural - and especially socioeconomic - variables. It describes major theoretical approaches to the idea of modernity and points to the sociological issues...

Well over thirty million people in the United States speak a primary language other than English. Nearly twenty million of them speak Spanish. And these numbers are growing. Critics of immigration and multiculturalism argue that recent government...

This title was first published in 2003. Since independence in 1947, India has undergone a phase of rapid urbanization. New planning laws have been passed, new organizations established, public policy documents and discussion papers prepared and a host of...

Highlighting twenty years of U.S. scientific research conducted since the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, this volume marks a turning point in the history of polar investigations and provides a lucid summary of the contributions of many...

The current indicators used to measure the impact of science and technology in developing countries have been formulated based on conditions and assumptions that are primarily relevant to developed countries. The contributors to this volume contend that...

In this book, leading authorities on the family show how families, parents, and children have been affected by changing patterns of marriage and cohabitation. Taking a long historical perspective, some authors consider trends such as the decline of...

This volume presents a series of quantitative indicators which are intended to illuminate some of the important aspects of the role played by scientific and R&D activities in our economic and social life not already described by existing data. The...

This book was published in 2003. One of the most important but least studied of medieval chant repertories is that of the Kyrie. With their Latin texts, Kyrie melodies represented musical ambitions manifested alongside of and subsequent to Gregorian...

This title was first published in 2000: A comprehensive assessment of the markets and outlook for the air transport industry in the Asia-Pacific region. The book examines options for improvement of the regulatory system and industry structure, drawing on...

African Clusters in India examines the discrimination and stereotypes faced by African migrants in India. It outlines the narratives of the migrants and demonstrates how their ‘African identity’ gets associated with drugs, prostitution, and cannibalism...

-Provides engaging and accessible introduction to current research in sociology of race and ethnicity designed for undergraduate students and readers-Examines the key theoretical and cultural constructions of race, ethnicity, power, and social...

Originally published in 1993, this is a study of agricultural co-operatives. The farming structure in transition countries has shifted from dominance of large corporate farms to family smallholdings. Smallholders everywhere experience difficulties with...

The Production of Reality, Seventh Edition for the social psychology courses in sociology departments is distinguished by the engaging essays that introduce the major parts of the book, and a wide-ranging, eclectic set of readings that students enjoy as...

First published in 1986, Landscape Meanings and Values presents a major contribution to the debate concerning the relationship between theory and practice in landscape analysis and planning. It brings together a number of the most eminent researchers,...

First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure of social work to face-to-face interactions, the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032241920Author Elly MalihahFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 174g