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During the Sixties and Seventies of the last century, the word 'utopia' acquired a positive connotation spurred on by the sudden emergence of the third world, the Marxist liberation movements and t...

Numerous uprisings and social movements in recent decades sprawled in seemingly disconnected political landscapes, from Turkey to Brazil, from South Africa to China, from Argentina to Portugal. The...

1 Research and Development.- 1.1 International (including developing countries).- 1.2 United States and Canada.- 1.3 Europe.- 1.4 Africa.- 1.5 Middle East.- 1.6 Far East.- 1.7 Australia/New Zealand...

Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary...

This book focuses on animal laws and animal welfare in major jurisdictions in the world, including the more developed legal regimes for animal protection of the US, UK, Australia, the EU and Israel...

Major structural features are used in this study to reconstruct the links which existed between North America, Europe and Africa before the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean. The synthesis of geo...

This book contains the papers presented at the "First International Sympo st sium on Aerogels (1 ISA)", held in September 1985 at. the University of Wiirzburg, Fed. Rep. of Germany. It was the firs...

I Taxonomic Composition, Ecology, and Biogeography of Soil-Crust Communities.- 1 Biological Soil Crusts: Characteristics and Distribution.- 2 Biological Soil Crusts of North America.- 3 Biological ...

Biodiversity and Protected Areas assembles twelve topics from around the world, illustrating the complexities and promise of addressing the biodiversity crisis. Authors from Mongolia, Africa, India...

This book focuses on animal laws and animal welfare in major jurisdictions in the world, including the more developed legal regimes for animal protection of the US, UK, Australia, the EU and Israel...

The book begins with a review of zoonotic pandemics of the past: the "Black Death" or bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, the Spanish Influenza pandemic (derived from avian influenza) of the early 2...

This volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries...

The water scarcity problem can be generated, in many cases, as a result of undesirable intensity and distribution of rainfall patterns. Water scarcity is a common dilemma that faces arid and semi-a...

This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin Amer...

Tobias Onyedikachukwu Okoro was educated at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he received his doctorate in pastoral th...