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At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...

Privatization is under attack. Beginning in the 1980s, thousands of failing state-owned enterprises worldwide have been turned over to the private sector. But public opinion has turned against privatization. A large political backlash has been brewing for some time, infused by accusations of corruption,...

La llegada a la presidencia del Gobierno de Mariano Rajoy ha supuesto la puesta en marcha de una cascada de medidas de política económica completamente distintas a las que habían prometido en los últimos años. Medidas, además, sujetas a los mismos dictados europeos de los que prometió liberar...

In an era of globalization and greater connectivity, human rights have come to the fore. Human rights depend on treaties but also increasingly on local and national laws and grassroots activism. The authors provide a basic introduction to human rights, and they unveil long-standing yet intensifying...

Capitalism?s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states...

The great Asian country is now a major player on the global chessboard for all businesses and for all markets. The watchful eye of Forchielli and Orlandi, two of the most experienced and knowledgeable in the Asian area, and Chinese in particular, offers us points of view inusual, can help us form...

1.1 General Framework In most arid and semi-arid countries, water resource management is an issue that is both important and controversial. Most water resources experts now acknowledge that water conflicts are not caused by physical scarcity but are mainly due to poor water management (Rosegrant et...

This book presents an introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) which is an emerging field in the area of complex systems attracting the attention of researchers from disparate scientific communities. EGT allows one to represent and study several complex phenomena, such as the emergence of cooperation...

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...

Modernization has effected a profound change in human civilizations and is a global trend since the 18th century. It includes not only the great change and transformation from traditional to modern politics, economies, societies and cultures, but also all human development and protection of the natural...

This book illustrates how to anticipate the future using more than the traditional predictive models (forecasting) based on the forward projection of past experiences, and moving into more advanced methods of anticipation logic (foresight) to build probable scenarios based on weak signals, emerging...

From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world. In Corruption: A Short History, Carlo Brioschi provides a thorough and entertaining look at how corruption was born and has evolved over time, without ever being...

My first book, ‘Making a Refracting Telescope’, featured the making of a small refracting telescope from commonly found and inexpensive materials. The telescope had a 48mm diameter achromatic objective lens with a focal length of 450mm and was designed to be used with standard 24.5mm (0.965 inch)...

Making a Refracting Telescope guides you through the process of making your own refractor using inexpensive materials and basic workshop tools. The makiing of each component is described in detail with step by step instructions, advice, helpful photographs and diagrams. The book was originally written...