This book incorporates the critical features of the external environment into an analysis that is principally directed at the kinds of policy alternatives... Læs mere
This book aims at a better understanding of the current practice of hazard management by large corporations. In-depth studies of individual corporations provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the advances and problems inherent in industrial safety management.
This book aims to bring a concern with cultural values and meanings closer to the study of the economic, political, jural, and religious change and development in the Sudan. It concentrates on sections of Sudanese society caught in the rapid changes of the 1970's.
In contrasting the economic developments in the Soviet Union, in Poland, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and China, this book evaluates the pressures and constraints of systemic changes in different types of socialist economies. .
This book presents a collection of case studies that make apparent that African corporatism is comparable yet in contrast to corporatism elsewhere. The collection also demonstrates the variation in corporatist practice and success among African countries. .
This book focuses on the effects of interaction between Indian and non-Indian peoples and on the complex relationships between Indians and their environments. It presents information for an accurate assessment of whether North American Indians can survive as a distinct culture. .
This comprehensive and authoritative book assesses in theoretical and empirical terms some of the most widely debated issues in the study of Cuban political economy. It presents a broad critique of the mainstream scholarship in the United States on Cuban political economy.
Crisis in Central America examines the development of various aspects of U.S. policy toward Central America. It analyses external pressures on Central American countries and regional dynamics.
This book is concerned with social change in Pakistan, particularly the relationship between indigenous sociocultural orientations, the development process, and the rise of a new middle-level entrepreneurial class in the Punjab.
This book analyzes two processes: scientific specialization brings about the fragmentation of disciplines into narrow subfields; and as specialization reaches its natural limits, innovative scholars will seek to recombine these fragments into hybrid fields.
This book demonstrates that Immanuel Wallerstein's reluctance to apply core and periphery to precapitalist transformations is a product of the way he... Læs mere
This book provides a comprehensive picture of the issues in the American health care system, without wading through a lot of technical jargon. It outlines the features essential to a medically, financially, and politically effective cure to the health care system's ailments.