Ensuring gender parity has become a great challenge for the modern world. Gender equality forms part of development strategy in many countries of t...

Genesis Beyond Sources is a radical and groundbreaking book with a new approach to understanding the book of Genesis and the Pentateuch. It has two...

This book looks at Georgia, which since its independence, has been the most vocally independent-minded country in the former Soviet Union. Russia c...

For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. One of ...

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It pr...

Over the last two decades, China's extraordinary rate of economic growth has been driven by the 120-150 million people who have flocked into China'...

This collective volume brings together the interdisciplinary work of a group of French social science scholars who have specialised on India. By fo...

"I want to gold pan; I want to strike rich. I've been searching for a stream of gold. It's these fortunes I never win that keep me searching for a ...

The voice of Francis J. Moloney, SDB, has been heard in New Testament studies for many decades. Internationally famous for his work on the Gospel o...

This book attends to the major concern of the Asia Pacific Region which is developing, energising and managing the human capital. In the early 60s ...

Public access to government information forms the foundation of a healthy liberal democracy. Because this information can be precarious, it needs s...

Here is a thematically arranged collection of quotations by writers, statesmen and raconteurs down the ages. It is an invaluable reference work for...

With its wealth of hard-to-find information on America's philanthropists, the Grant Seekers Guide has become the standard reference manual for nonp...

Corporate Grantmaking for Racial and Ethnic Communities.

The Greek city-state of Athens is believed to have developed the first known democracy around 500 B.C. Modern Greece has been a democracy since the...

Towards the close of the millennium, several developing countries started seeing economic gains hitherto not experienced. Economic gains have taken...

The Native Americans we know today in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah are primarily descended from the culture known as Anasazi, which "sett...

This guide covers cumulative indexes to journals, proceedings, transactions and other serials and periodicals for the 260 years since the publicati...

This book presents 2322 full citations of books from 1990-1993 including subject headings of books dealing with Black Americans. Full author and su...

Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet is the nation’s most prominent anti-noise organization, focusing on excessive noise from motorcycl...

The purpose of this book is to examine the performance of Guyana's economy during the era of dirigisme and the period of economic liberalisation wi...

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This book provides people who want to work systemically with a set of practical tools. It is above all a reference book full of specific and helpfu...

The authors of this handbook provide new research on the challenges and issues of the 21st century in Africa. Some of the topics discussed include ...