Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand we struggle to survive on our own in the wild often failing to overcome even basic challenges like obtaining food building shelters or avoiding predators. On the other hand human groups have produced ingenious technol... Lees meer.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand we struggle to survive on our own in the wild often failing to overcome even basic challenges like obtaining food building shelters or avoiding predat... Lees meer.

Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives concubines and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China. In Women and Their Warlords historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives and personalities of the female relatives of the military rulers who go... Lees meer.

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand we struggle to survive on our own in the wild often failing to overcome even basic challenges like obtaining food building shelters or avoiding predators. On the other hand human groups have produced ingenious technol... Lees meer.

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology and that... Lees meer.

Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-a-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a youth bulge... Lees meer.

In this carefully crafted work Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political religious economic and literary sources he chronicles... Lees meer.

This book explores the ways in which the study of the domestic and the international far from being separate spheres are in fact woven together in multiple ways. It seeks to question this traditional domestic international binary and approach their entanglement throug... Lees meer.

In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled po... Lees meer.

This text assesses the impact of socialist collectivization on Bulgaria s rural economy over the past 50 years through a case study of one village. Since 1989 Bulgarian villagers have struggled to defend their earlier gains against both proto-capitalists and rehabilita... Lees meer.

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Catholic theologians have developed the relatively new term inculturation to discuss the old problem of adapting the church universal to specific local cultures. Europeans needed a thousand years to inculturate Christianity from its Judaic roots. Africans efforts to... Lees meer.

This book brings together the leading researchers currently investigating the impact of information and communication technology outside of the workplace. During the past decade technology has become more pervasive encroaching more and more on our lives. Computers... Lees meer.

Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities. Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in po... Lees meer.