Throughout the last decade, there has been a demand for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programs. Much of this pressure has come from internationally renowned development organizations. "Practising Development" is the first collection to offer first-hand critical assessments of the successes and failures found within actual responses to these pressures. The contributors...
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This accessible introduction to the mathematics of rings and fields shows how algebraic techniques can be used to solve many difficult problems. The book is carefully organized. Prerequisite mathematical skills are introduced at the beginning, and each chapter opens with an introduction to a problem followed by the development of the algebraic techniques necessary for its solution, using concrete mathematical and non-mathematical examples. Alt...
Die "Schriften des Historischen Kollegs" werden herausgegeben vom jeweiligen Vorsitzenden des Kuratoriums des Historischen Kollegs: bis 2011 von Herrn Professor Dr. Lothar Gall, ab 2012 durch Herrn Professor Dr. Andreas Wirsching. Zum Historischen Kolleg: http://www.historischeskolleg.de/
Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Einleitung / Gerhardt, Uta / Mochmann, Ekkehard -- Der Umbruch nach 1945 im Spiegel der Umfragen / Scheuch, Erwin K. -- Re-Demokratisierung nach 1945 im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Sozialforschung und sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur / Gerhardt, Uta -- Marschierte der DDR-Bürger mit? Systemidentifikation der DDR-Bevölkerung vor und nach der Wende / Köhler, Anne -- Zur Entwicklung der Marktwirtschaft in den neuen Bun...
Using original research from archives, interviews with MPs and party officials, and first hand testimonies from grass roots activists, the authors go behind the scenes to name names, record the votes, and lay bare the machinations of those who led the Labour Party to electoral defeat in 1992.
This bibliography lists the most important works in sociology published in 1990. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, the IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. The IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world's leading social s...
This bibliography lists the most important works published in economics in 1990. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, the IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. The IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world's leading social s...
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon, and a second reputation after his death with The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously.
The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career.
∗ This book is a sequel to the acclaimed Theory of Communicative Action. ∗ The work is inter-disciplinary, covering the social sciences, philosophy and ethics. ∗ Habermas is widely acknowledged to be the greatest living social and political theorist. ∗ This book is a sequel to the acclaimed Theory of Communicative Action.