Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenk...więcej »
Cancer is the second most common cause of mortality and morbidity in kidney transplant recipients. Kidney transplant recipients have at least a twofold higher risk of developing or dying from cance...więcej »
This book is about catalysing and supporting positive change. Its primary target audience is non-specialist individuals who engage with organisations as a whole, or significant parts thereof, as in...więcej »
This book was as the result of a study that was carried out in Uganda to assess the Causes of Achild Abuse : A case study of Nsambya Police Barracks. Specifically this study was done to; Identify t...więcej »
A significant aspect of the urban population are women who live in a situation marked by historic marginalisation and numerous deprivations. Women and girls frequently experience the most horrible ...więcej »
In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of withstanding extre...więcej »
In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's r...więcej »
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second Wo...więcej »
In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she c...więcej »
This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North Americ...więcej »
Noting the pervasiveness of the adoption of "responsibility" as a core ideal of neoliberal governance, the contributors to Competing Responsibilities challenge contemporary understandin...więcej »
In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have ma...więcej »
The world appears bedeviled with violence. But violence has not done anybody any good. Proponents of nonviolence still hold that the path of peace and love is the best way to get redress. This book...więcej »
For Aristotle, ethics is the search for happiness, and the science that accompanies it. It concerns friendship as well as virtues. But the Stagirite does not seek to revolutionize morality, far fro...więcej »
In Concrete Dreams Nicholas D'Avella examines the changing social and economic lives of buildings in the context of a construction boom following Argentina's political and economic crisis of...więcej »
In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While res...więcej »
In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions...więcej »
Human history encountered many challenging epidemics in past, including 1918 influenza pandemic and in recent times H1N1, SARS, MERS and Ebola, which outburst fast with strong contagiousness and se...więcej »
It is no more news that the Coronavirus has ravaged the whole world and this has crippled the global economic activities of both developed and developing countries of the world. Since been recorded...więcej »
While science often uses methods to try to explain observations of a wide range of phenomena, creationists use faith in the texts of the Bible to the same end. Much of the scientific discoveries in...więcej »