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This is a survey of how government policies have affected agricultural performance in Zimbabwe since independence. The government helped smallholders triple their grain sales in the early 1980s, but left the country vulnerable to drought, leading to emergency food imports in 1992.

A volume of essays which addresses the roles of truth and interpretation in the shaping of human thought.

In this thoroughly revised Second Edition, Glenn Wong updates and adds to his already highly successful First Editon. He addresses the significant changes that have come about in amateur sports law and administrative practice over the last several years. These changes impact amateur athletic associations, athletes' rights, administrative procedures, and the liability of sponsoring organizations. Issues of special topicality and importance, inc...

This volume addresses an important and problematic aspect of NGO activities in Africa: NGO-African state relations. The authors of this volume offer case studies that provide insights into the range of NGO activities that address the questions: what do NGO activities mean for the African State? and how are the relationships of NGOs and African states changing? Each chapter contains a rich investigation and analysis communicating many of the pr...

Marian Hooper Adams - Clover, as friends called her - was an accomplished photographer and a witty, irreverent free spirit who moved easily within the cultural circles of nineteenth-century Boston. Why, then, in 1882, at the age of forty-two, did she swallow a lethal dose of potassium cyanide? And why did her husband of thirteen years fail even to mention her in his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams? These and other questions are exp...

Looks at the means by which US economic, military and political leadership might be able to continue, in the context of the information age and the transitional stage of the global political system. The book argues that flexible adaptation to new technological realities is necessary.

Throughout his public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners, convinced that journalists were to be manipulated and distrusted. This work traces the history of his relationship with the media, showing how it helped and hindered his career.

Connecting money and art, this collection of essays studies the treatment of money in various forms of literature. It begins with chapters analysing money in terms of language and culture, and then turns to money in history, showing how money has been influenced by, and has changed, history.

China is facing serious economic problems due to a low interest rate policy that encourages unproductive investments and low output.

Contends that central bank policy pits the Federal Reserve against consumers, creating business cycles and inflation. The book argues that as the cycle proceeds, the velocity of money starts to rise, complicating the central bank's problems, so that either depression or inflation ensues.

Competition in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity is of increasing interest to policy makers as well as to buyers and sellers of power. The use of competition as a social policy tool to benefit consumers carries the necessity of preserving competition when it is threatened by mergers or other structural changes. The work explains central principles of antitrust economics and applies them to mergers in the electric po...

This work explores the history of documentary photography, from the early years of "Life" and "Look" magazines to the more recent explosion of photographic technology. It features anecdotes from the author's own career and covers practical, creative and ethical issues.

More than 550 definitions of important Greek and Hebrew words and their underlying concepts 6 1/4 X 9 3/8

More than 550 definitions of important Greek and Hebrew words and their underlying concepts 6 1/4 X 9 3/8

Examines the stereotypical portrayals of Blacks in advertising, from the turn of the century to the present. Beginning with slave advertisements, Kern-Foxworth discusses how slavery led to the stereotypes found in early advertisements, and explores the psychological impact of these portrayals.

A review of the previous edition: For those who teach, do research, or work in the criminal justice system, [this] book can help to increase critical thinking by uncovering some of the hidden systematic problems....A good supplemental text for any of the following courses: criminal justice, law and politics, state and local government, women and the law, women's studies, sociology, and criminology. Criminal Justice Policy Review