Religious dissent has been a persistent feature of English and Welsh history for over four hundred years, influencing the economic, cultural, and political history of the two nations as well as their religious life. The Dissenters is the first of a projected three-volume study on the subject, which promises to be the first comprehensive overview ...
The second edition of this popular collection presents 28 specially commissioned essays by leading geographers from across the world, addressing questions about how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. The volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural ...
Now one of the major suppliers of U.S. oil, Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world. Set against a backdrop of what has been called the scramble for African oil, Curse of the Black Gold is the first book to document the consequences of a half-century of oil exploration and production in one of the world's foremost centers of ...
This path-breaking guide to the concepts, terms and theories used in human geography has now been fully revised to reflect and to advance changes in the nature and practice of human geography. The Dictionary of Human Geography, Fourth Edition, contains a wealth of new material, to ensure that it remains the definitive resource for a new generation ...
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. This text, however, highlights the changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organising peasant agriculture, contract farming ...
Filled with humorous and instructive examples, Lovescript provides the inside read on a successful relationship and is the ultimate handbook for deciphering the deeper meaning behind our scrawls and scribbles. Containing many amusing games and tests, this book ensures that readers will never mind their p's and q's in quite the same way again. ...
At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation drawing from ...
Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in ...
Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the political economy of agriculture, food and consumption. Among the themes addressed are: giant multinational food corporations rural industrialization World Bank policies regulation of pollution labour relations urban food politics environmental sustainability. This revealing ...
In one of the most innovative approaches to economics and literacy ever published, Watts presents a cogent explication of free market theory by exploring the effects of particular economic concepts offered in great works of literature and drama.
Alternatives to the lectures-and-chalkboard approach that dominates the teaching of economics are given here in a wide range of learning styles aimed at undergraduates.
"Adlerian Therapy: Theory and Practice" introduces the reader to Alfred Adler's seminal approach to psychotherapy. Starting from the principle that human behavior is goal oriented and socially embedded, Adlerian therapy is a brief psychoeducational approach that emphasizes understanding individuals' characteristic ways of moving through life - the ...
Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the political economy of agriculture, food and consumption. Among the themes addressed are: * giant multinational food corporations * rural industrialization * World Bank policies * regulation of pollution * labour relations * urban food politics * environmental sustainability. This ...
Yorkshire possesses within its boundaries many different landscapes - each with their own identity. In "Yorkshire Encounters" Lin Watts has chosen seven of them and devotes one chapter to each. Together, these seven journeys encompass the areas of Yorkshire that are most popular with visitors. For the first journey a "potted history" of the author ...
This series offers the fundamentals of pertinent research, classroom methodology and current practice. This text uses a moderate approach to reading instruction which combines aspects of traditional basal and whole language approaches. It offers a "no frills" approach and provides students with a comprehension of some of the important components ...
Pen in hand, tongue in cheek, an expert graphologist offers the first easy and informative guide to handwriting analysis. With this little book and a writing sample (purloined or freely given), you can discover the hidden secrets of friends, enemies or even yourself. Never before have these techniques been so accessible--and so much fun. 80 ...
This text brings together theorists in the field in order to explore the impact of political ecology in today's developing world. The book casts new light on the crucial interrelations of development, social movements and the environment in the South - the "bigger" half of our planet - and raises questions and hopes about change on the global ...
Teaching a child to read is no easy task. Fortunately the authors of this book have made that task a bit easier. Their book is an excellent resource for teachers, educators and parents through its presentation of a balanced, constructivist approach to instruction. In an engaging style and readable format, this book provides readers with theory, ...
In this guide, the author provides an analysis of handwriting styles. In four sections covering, the mind and its intelligence, ambition, success, and sexual behaviour, he demonstrates the secrets handwriting can reveal.
This sixth volume in "Trentham's Discourse, Power, Resistance" series brings together an international team of writers to get to grips with the issues of marginalized knowledges and silenced voices, and the ways and means of speaking out.Part 1, Uncovering Truth, opens with analyses by Norman Denzin and Bob Lingard of neoliberal notions of what ...
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