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...

Lebanon - Current Issues & Background

Lebanon is a religiously diverse, democratic state transitioning toward independence after a ruinous civil war and the subsequent Syrian and Israel...

The year was 1971. No one had ever heard of Afghanistan and no one cared. The Russians hadn't invaded and the Taliban didn't exist. Eloise Hanner n...

The United Nations Security Council passed three resolutions that placed sanctions on Libya until Libya surrendered for trial two men suspected of ...

Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write. One would expect that as the world enters the 21st century of the Third Millennium, we wouldn...

This book is a bird´s eye view of the livelihood and geographical conditions of backward rural areas in the central and northern Andes in Perú and ...

Text in Danish. This publication deals with the encounter between the common Danish population of the 17th century and the printed word -- and not ...

This book documents experiences by those at the forefront of technical support and capacity development. The experiences and lessons learned all or...

Dive into a luscious feast of language and imagery, laced with Maori proverbs. Cowrie boards a ship bound for Mururoa Atoll during the French nucle...

Meaning "provided with marginal annotations," marginated neatly describes the items featured in this extensively researched catalogue. From present...

Learn the essentials of marine diesel propulsion engines ranging from 1,000 to 80,000 horsepower. This excellent handbook for marine engineers emph...

Since the Titanic disaster of 1912, the horrors of major maritime casualties have prompted international conventions and domestic legislation, but ...

This book provides the most current and comprehensive review available of the natural and human history of the Catoctin Mountain region of Maryland...

Presenting an exhaustive bibliography and filmography, this encyclopaedic reference offers the most comprehensive review of the members of the Scie...

This book is devoted to new advances in all branches of mathematics, game theory and applications, and pure and applied algebra and geometry includ...

Book and CD. The complete history -- starting where it all began. A comprehensive discography with listings of several hundred official albums, CDs...

This collection represents a complex material with respect to the cities, urban places, and metropolitan areas. This book may be considered as a co...

As American demographics continue their stunning shift, Mexico's position as the homeland of so many immigrants will give it a powerful voice in wo...

This reference book presents the important issues of contemporary Mexico within the backdrop of its historical background and augments it with an i...

America and Mexico share a continent with Canada and as the world continues to grow smaller find more and more issues which both bind and separate ...

The United States and Mexico have a close and complex bilateral relationship, with extensive economic linkages as neighbours and partners under the...

In 1998 the Middle East Conflict celebrated its 50th anniversary and now, eight years later, no final general settlement is in sight. Despite peace...

Smartphones can provide services based on consumers' location, raising potential privacy risks if companies use or share location data without cons...

The book addresses the issues of China's modern social order, as influenced by an evolving economic order and especially legal order. Ongoing Chine...

Modern Exterior Ballistics is a comprehensive text covering the basic free flight dynamics of symmetric projectiles. The book provides a historical...

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for students and a reference for today’s engineering officers, port engineers, superintendent engineer...

This book focuses on the newest information on metal ion contaminations and the influence of some of them in neurological diseases, a subject still...

Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous + Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art ...

Is really "Islam" to blame for many of the ills of the world, like stagnation, gender inequality, social inequality, human rights violations and ec...

This book provides theoretical, methodological and practical insights into the use of autoethnography as a research methodology. Autoethnography of...

The changes in the technological and business environment have complicated the nature of the decision-making process in real-world problems, thus m...

Containing over 40,000 pieces of art from the Seljuk and Ottoman empires as well as other Muslim civilisations, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic A...

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution that’s transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwid...

The names on Svalbard are a reminder of how many different nationalities that have visited and lived on the archipelago during the centuries. These...