Very few countries in the world can be considered economically on the move forward but India, as well as China, is one of them. This book presents ...

Indonesia - Issues, Historical Background & Bibliography

The first section of the book is all about Indonesia's democratic transformation -- as it is the main theme of the book. It looks at the ways in wh...

The value proposition for fusion centres is that by integrating various streams of information and intelligence, including that flowing from the fe...

The potato (Solanum tuberosum L) has a high potential to raise smallholder income and improve food security in Eastern Africa. Improving the qualit...

LIBER, the principal association of research libraries in Europe, was founded in 1971, under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The driving for...

Fiji has distinct institutional features that make it an ideal case for examining and discussing the consequences of institutional arrangements (pa...

Intercultural communications encompasses social or human sciences (including political science, psychology, sociology, discourse analysis, linguist...

How we communicate with others is basic to our personal satisfaction, fulfilment and success in life. Interpersonal communication is really the stu...

The field of nanocomposites involving organic or inorganic materials is a rapidly rising area of research and application development. In general n...

The book opens with a summary on the main theories representative of human error, such as: "Bad Apples Theory", "Normal Accident Theories" and "Hig...

"Many people go through life in a rather hit-or-miss fashion, casting about for ideas to explain why their projects improve or decline, why they ar...

Iran and the West is a critical bibliography of over 4000 books, articles, journals, and catalogues about Iran written in Western languages and pub...

Iran and the West is a critical bibliography of over 4000 books, articles, journals, and catalogues about Iran written in Western languages and pub...

Issues, Historical Background, Bibliography

After decades of being out of the focus of the world's attention, it now finds itself on the first pages or newspapers around the world and on TV e...

This book on Iraq focuses on the post-Saddam government, women in Iraq and the potential oil wealth remaining unrealised. Iraq, which was attacked ...

Islam - Background & Bibliography

This beautifully illustrated book presents for the first time the rich Islamic collections of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Highlighting over a hu...

The issue of the interpretations of Japan's wars is not totally a matter of the past; it is related to the present. Conservatives firmly believe th...

After growing up on a remote South Australian property, and having seen her mother taken by a shark when she was two, Jean Primrose Whyte went on t...

Perhaps no other city has been spoken of as often or as passionately as Jerusalem. This book brings together the kaleidoscopic impressions and pers...

This book provides an overview of Jordanian politics and current issues in U.S.-Jordanian relations; Jordan's government and economy and its co-ope...

Remembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes. Based on up-to-date field material, this issue focuses on the palimpsest-like environmen...

Special Section: Multilingualism in Ukraine. Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko: Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism. Taras Koznarsky: The Languages ...

"My name in Monei Ntuka and this is the story of my childhood in the village of Mochudi, in the then British Bechuanaland Protectorate, in the mid ...

"The contribution made by the Edmonton libraries to the sanity and support of the citizens cannot be estimated. No Annual Report can gauge things o...

Kermanshah was one of the most important commercial gateways to Iran and a crucial transit station on the trade route between Iraq and Iran. It was...

This book explores the experiential research methods (arts-based, reflexative, collaborative) that allow researchers to access their own and their ...

This book provides new research on knowledge creation and transfer. The first chapter of the book reviews social metacognition and knowledge creati...

The United States has a long-maintained strong affiliation with South Korea. On the other hand, North Korea, a country on President Bush's 'axis of...

What do "Deep water pier", "Nine dragons city" and "Mandarin’s lake" have in common with "Wong Tai Sin", the name of a Taoist deity? They’re all di...

As smallholder farmers switch to producing for the commercial market, they face a steep learning curve. To select a product and to market it effect...