Empire's Children is a pioneering new study of child emigration. Dating back to its origins, Dr Boucher charts... Læs mere
The book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa. It uses sociohistorical... Læs mere
Addresses philosophical and normative (moral/legal) issues arising from the 2011 NATO bombing in Libya, and armed humanitarian intervention more generally. Of great interest to those studying political philosophy, international relations, and humanitarian law.
This book investigates elections and protest in developing countries, and what those protests mean for democracy. Unlike much work on elections and... Læs mere
A scientific and management guide to the St Lucia estuary, the world's first protected, and Africa's largest, estuarine... Læs mere
The global age is distinguished by disobedience, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the anti-G8 and anti-WTO... Læs mere
Sean Coyle questions key aspects of modern thinking on law and politics, offers extended reflections on the subjects of law, justice, freedom and order as... Læs mere
An introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: what is it? How and why does it happen? Wy should we care? The book outlines the... Læs mere
An interdisciplinary analysis of the ecological impact of industrial pollution, from causes and effects to monitoring techniques and ecosystem recovery.
For more than two centuries, bad news and negative assertions expressed in innumerable voting paradoxes and theorems have asserted the impossibility of doing what seems to be natural in voting and decision rules. This book provides a positive take on the area.
In the first full-length scholarly study of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff argues that digital diasporas can ease security concerns in... Læs mere
Fully updated and revised, this rigorous but accessible second edition explores Earth's evolution over 4.6 billion years, explaining the underlying physical and chemical... Læs mere