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Village Viability In Contemporary Society

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Social Security in the Global Village

There is growing recognition that globalization places major pressures on the development of social security schemes. Internationalization of the econ...

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Social Character in a Mexican Village

After the completion of the revolution in 1920 Mexico quickly became an increasingly industrialized country. The vast changes that occurred in the fir...

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Rebuilding the Ancestral Village Singaporeans in China

Originally published in 2000 this second edition was first published in 2010. This is a discussion of the relationship between one group of Singapore ...

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Coping With Poverty Adaptive Strategies In A Caribbean Village

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Social Change in Syria Family Village and Political Party

Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s) this book offers a unique perspe...

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Piracy Pillage and Plunder in Antiquity Appropriation and the Ancient World

Piracy Pillage and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world from brigands mercenaries and state-sponsore...

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China's Grain Economy The Challenge of Feeding More Than a Billion

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Communities Surviving Migration Village Governance Environment and Cultural Survival in Indigenous Mexico

Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment when ...

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Bulgarian Harmony In Village Wedding and Choral Music of the Last Century

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a G...

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Two-Dimensional People Lives Desires and Social Attitudes in a Changing Chinese Village

Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peas...

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Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secr...

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Competence Conduct and Billion Dollar Consequences How Regulatory Strategy and Relationships Can Improve Organisational Outcomes

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The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

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The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

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The End of Tradition Country Life in Central Surrey

First published in 1978 The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages the Horsleys and Clandons close to London but isolated and protect...

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Communication Social Structure and Development in Rural Malaysia A Study of Kampung Kuala Bera

This is an important innovative analysis of communication and society in Pahang West Malaysia based on fieldwork carried out in Kampung Kuala Bera. Dr...

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The Social Framework of Agriculture

Published in 1968: The author not only pioneered modern-style village surveys in both England and India but also modern style urban surveys and studie...

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Production of Locality in the Early Modern and Modern Age Places

This book is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion of place to include the proces...

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Chinese Awakenings Life Stories From The Unofficial China

This book aims to allow Chinese to speak for themselves. By so doing it provides a firsthand portrait of China by Chinese. The book shows how from mud...

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Preceramic Mesoamerica

Preceramic Mesoamerica delivers cutting-edge research on the Mesoamerican Paleoindian and Archaic periods. The chapters address a series of fundamenta...

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Participatory Forest Policies and Politics in India Joint Forest Management Institutions in Jharkhand and West Bengal

Originally published in 2004. In a radical breakaway from colonial and postcolonial policies that were based on centralized and revenue-orientated con...

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Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark Living with Light

Using case studies such as the use of candlelight and energy saving lightbulbs in Denmark this book unravels light’s place at the heart of social life...

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Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous People in the North of Colombia Back to the Ancestors' Landscape

Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous People in the North of Colombia explores indigenous people's struggle for territorial autonomy in an aggre...

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Fast Food Fast Track Immigrants Big Business And The American Dream

Hailing from China the Caribbean Latin America and India a colorful sea of faces has taken its place behind one of the most ubiquitous American busine...

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Working the Sahel

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Migrants No More Settlement and Survival in Mambwe Villages Zambia

Originally published in 1988 this book documents genealogical developments which together with changes in agricultural production religious ethic poli...

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A Competitive Assessment Of The U.S. Civil Aircraft Industry

In 1985 the U. S. aerospace industry achieved a $13. 1 billion trade surplus and contributed $89. 2 billion in shipments to the U. S. economy. Without...

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Issues in American Political Life Money Violence and Biology

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Women and Climate Change in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is by no means a high emitter of carbon but it is nevertheless one of the countries most critically affected. There is a significant risk o...

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Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women Education Emancipation and Empowerment

Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women highlights the importance and role of informal education in the emancipation and development of Maas...

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Political Campaign Craftsmanship A Professional's Guide to Campaigning for Public Office

Over one billion dollars are spent in presidential election years on an expensive art form: political campaigns. Many political observers believe that...

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A History of Ghana

A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold...

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The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science Confronting Myths of the Health and Fitness Industry

The global health and fitness industry is worth an estimated $4 trillion. We spend $90 billion each year on health club memberships and $100 billion e...

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The State of the World Atlas

Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political social economic and e...

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Knowledge of Illness in a Sepik Society A Study of the Gnau New Guinea Volume 52

Illness is a matter of concern in every society. Social responses to it depend both on the nature of the illness and on cultural interpretation of its...

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Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination A Scattered Nation

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Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain P. T. Barnum Marietta Holley and the literary comedians...

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The Rustication of Urban Youth in China A Social Experiment

In the 1960s and 70s the government of China conducted a rather unusual social experiment called ‘Up to the mountains and down to the village’ which s...

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The World of the Russian Peasant Post-Emancipation Culture and Society

First published in 1990 The World of the Russian Peasant is designed to provide a wide-ranging survey of new developments in Russian peasant studies. ...

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The Indo-European Languages

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family. With over ...

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Rebuilding the Local Landscape Environmental Management in Burkina Faso

First published in 1999 this volume emerged in the context of a recent willingness to understand what Africa’s peasant farmers are designing and build...

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Visions of Sustainability Stakeholders Change and Indicators

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Urbanization in Vietnam

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International Sports Betting Integrity Deviance Governance and Policy

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Brass Roots A Hundred Years of Brass Bands and Their Music 1836-1936

This book was originally published in 1998. For most of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century the brass band was a major feature ...

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China's Rural Market Development in the Reform Era

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1. 3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agric...

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The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants – as s...

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Necessary But Not Sufficient A Theory of Constraints Business Novel

After reading the newspapers and following the sharp oscillations of the stock market it becomes apparent that hi-tech companies are of a different br...

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The March to Capitalism in the Transition Countries

First published in 1998 this book analyses and reconsiders one of the great economic dramas of Western history the march to capitalism in Russia Hunga...

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Rural Geographies People Place and the Countryside

Rural Geographies provides a critical contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current issue...

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Rural Poverty Empowerment and Sustainable Livelihoods

First published in 1999 this volume explores the nature of poverty and interprets it across a range of policy reforms and project interventions in dif...

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Art and Merchandise in Keith Haring’s Pop Shop

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring this book uses the Pop Shop a previously overlooked enterprise and artist merchandising as too...

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Victorian Comics

The Victorians are usually painted as prim proper and repressed. Yet it was in Victoria’s Britain that the comic paper was born and her subjects eager...

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New Models of Inclusive Innovation for Development

Inequality and innovation are both rising issues on the international development agenda. Their intersection is inclusive innovation; defined as the i...

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Religion and Nature Conservation Global Case Studies

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The Gulf Stock Exchange Crash The Rise and Fall of the Souq Al-Manakh

The collapse of Souq Al-Manakh in Kuwait in August 1982 was the most spectacular financial crash of recent years. The market had developed as a parall...

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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Core Vocabulary for Learners

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated including over 500 new entries making it an invaluable resource for students of S...

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Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institut...

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Hyperconsumption Corporate Marketing vs. the Planet

Diving deep into the world of corporate marketing this incisive and eye-opening work shows how in the hands of the corporation business has become man...

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Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education Drawing on the Strengths of African American Asian American Pacific Islander Latinx and

Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education examines pressing structural issues currently impacting African American Asian American Pacific Islan...

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The Age of Happy Problems

In his first book of non-fiction originally published in 1962 Herbert Gold explores some not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of mass de...

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The Fellowship of Song Popular Singing Traditions in East Suffolk

Originally published in 1980. Song is perhaps the strongest form of traditional culture. Its vigour and energy represent the power of the community fr...

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History Memory and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos The Past Inside the Present

This book captures the dynamics of history memory and territorial cults in Houay Yong a Tai Vat village situated in the multiethnic highland frontier ...

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Seen Locally

Originally published in 1989 Henry Pluckrose well-known as an educational consultant writer and lecturer examines the way in which a study of the loca...

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British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Financing Healthcare in China Towards universal health insurance

China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1. 4 billion population in China and is moving towards ...

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Roll Shooting TV News Shooting TV News:Views from Behind the Lens

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Inclusive Trade in Africa The African Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is...

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Cosmopolitanism from the Grassroots A New Chinese Migrant Community

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Gender Nutrition and the Human Right to Adequate Food Toward an Inclusive Framework

This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural disconnects fueling food insecur...

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Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe

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Xi Jinping The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life

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Gambling in Everyday Life Spaces Moments and Products of Enjoyment

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Mobility in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature in English Crossing Borders Transcending Boundaries

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Making Heritage Together Archaeological Ethnography and Community Engagement with a Rural Community

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The Music of the Other New Challenges for Ethnomusicology in a Global Age

We are surrounded by new musical encounters today as never before and the experience of musics from elsewhere is progressively affecting all arenas of...

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Making British Defence Policy Continuity and Change

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Introduction to Corporate and White-Collar Crime

White-collar crime costs the United States more than $300 billion each year. It is surprisingly common with one in every three Americans eventually be...

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Water Infrastructure

Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management. Together with institutions policies and regulation it provides basic services to gro...

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La Casa De Mis Suenos Dreams Of Home In A Transnational Migrant Community

Unable to secure a full livelihood in either Mexico or the United States migrants from the rural village of Napizaro in central Mexico must extend the...

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Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange

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The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

In a career spanning 70 years composer conductor and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works chamber music...

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Military Spending and Global Security Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives

Global military expenditure reached an estimated $1 822 billion in 2018 and this book questions what that spending responds to and indeed what that en...

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Ideology and Form in Yan Lianke’s Fiction Mythorealism as Method

Xie analyzes three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature “mythorealist” form produces...

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Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism History Practice and Doctrine

Hinduism cannot be understood without the Great Goddess and the goddess-orientated Śākta traditions. The Goddess pervades Hinduism at all levels from ...

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The Politics of Ponzi Schemes History Theory and Policy

In the space of three years from 2009 to 2012 Bernie Madoff Tom Petters and R. Allen Stanford were all convicted for running multi-billion dollar Ponz...

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The Making of Modern Uganda

First published in 1958 The Making of Modern Uganda is concerned with the formation of modern Uganda in the sixty years since the 1890s when the found...

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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Business Solutions for Poverty Alleviation from Around the World

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Retail Security and Loss Prevention Solutions

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Photography A 21st Century Practice

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Jamestown Archaeology Remains To Be Seen

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Healthcare Fraud Investigation Guidebook

Some have estimated that healthcare fraud in the United States results in losses of approximately $80 billion a year. Although there are many books av...

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Mobile Communication Dimensions of Social Policy

In the few short decades since their commercial deployment 5 billion people about three-quarters of all humanity including children have become mobile...

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Routledge Handbook of Space Law

This handbook is a reference work providing a comprehensive objective and comparative overview of Space Law. The global space economy reached $330 bil...

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The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child Fantasy Dystopia Cyberculture

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Film Criticism as a Cultural Institution

At the beginning of the 21st century film criticism was described as in crisis. The decline of print journalism a series of lay-offs of prominent crit...

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Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies this book not only...

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British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock

British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed not at the youthful rebellion for which they ...

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Popular World Music

Popular World Music Second Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world. Andrew Shahriari discusses internati...

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