The provision of safe water and sanitation are key mechanisms for breaking the cycle of poverty. Access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation...

Scepticism about achieving essential development goals and fighting poverty is fading away. Since the Millennium Development Summit in 2000, when 1...

This book focuses on the evaluation of information projects, products and services from a learning perspective. It looks at evaluation within the c...

This book examines the social analysis of emotion as well as its multifaceted interpretation by social theories emanating from the critical social ...

This book compiles research summaries of top professionals in the field of social issues research from a number of different focuses in this import...

This book compiles research summaries of top professionals in the field of social issues research from a number of different focuses in this import...

This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of social issues research, as well as research summaries from a number o...

Since the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions have bee...

The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Afric...

Somalia has lacked a functioning central government since 1991. In December 2006, the Ethiopian military intervened in Somalia to support Somalia's...

This is a collection of outstanding analyses of museums in the South Pacific, written by cultural, museum and architectural critics, and historians...

Since September 2001, the U.S. has increased focus on radical Islamist and terrorist groups in Southeast Asia, particularly those in the Philippine...

Focuses upon communication as a tool for doing the work of social life -- how, why, and with what consequences people exchange messages. It examine...

This book provides an overview of the development of a small country, which on the one hand, is unique, and on the other hand, is also an interesti...

An absolute necessity when introduced to Stata -- one of the most user-friendly all-around statistics computer programs on the market. This book gu...

China's breathtaking economic reform, including the rise of private enterprise, has often led observers to assume that the country's economic syste...

In order to assist a hospital in managing its resources and patients, modelling the length of stay is highly important. Recent health scholarship a...

Stress seems to be an affliction common to almost everyone living in the 21st century except perhaps a few inhabitants of some far-off islands unto...

The Supreme Court of the United States is in the midst of a generation change which will no doubt result in societal imperatives different than tho...

Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increas...

This bibliography carries on the work ofJens Himmel-strup's international bibliography from 1962. It collates everything written about Kierkegaard ...

The book is divided into three parts, consisting of 13 chapters. They examine entrepreneurship, innovative systems and government policies in Taiwa...