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Based on a detailed case study of range management in north-west Somalia, Pastoral Development Planning is written for development planners and field-workers, as well as agricultural and environmental planners and policy makers.

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Wacker and Clemens assemble a wealth of informnation that traces spatial and temporal patterns of agriculture in this very diverse state. Diaries, probate and tax records, store ledgers, and other sources detail cultural and economic factors that interacted with the natural landscape to produce complex patterns of land use. While perhaps of greatest interest to historians and historical geographers interested in teasing out the role of markets...

Susan B. Brill is an assistant professor of English at Bradley University, where she teaches critical theory and Native American Indian literatures.

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Aimed at those working on stove projects or manufacture of ceramic stoves, this books offers clear explanations of some of the causes of the problems encountered while the stove is in use and gives straightforward methods of avoiding them.

Distance education is practised in all parts of the world and in recent years, its scope has developed enormously and rapidly. It has become an intrinsic part of many national educational systems and an academic discipline in its own right. Research into the area has produced a body of theory which is now being used to improve its practice. This new edition of Theory and Practice of Distance Education has been thoroughly updated both by descri...

Gill examines the continuing power and influence of Bataille's work. By bringing together international specialists on Bataille from philosophy to art history, this collection is able to explore the many facets of his writing.

Addresses underground opposition in Germany at the time of the Third Reich. Covert popular defiance in the form of humorous resistance was more widespread than is commonly thought. This collection of underground anti-Nazi humour embraces jokes, stories and 60 cartoons.

This volume on descriptive and experimental phonetics and phonology contains 38 articles by 45 international contributors, and should be of interest to those concerned with linguistics, phonetics or the teaching of English as a foreign language, and readers in many other fields.

The history of European colonization has been based upon the marginalization of "first peoples". This book explores the past, present and future of these peoples, their treatment by the "West" and the strategies of development left open to them.

In this study, the author argues that today's theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the 19th century.

Collected here for the first time is every edition of the famous monthly "London Magazine, " Dominated mainly by pseudonymous contributors, "The London Magazine" (1820-1824) was richer in authors and literary content than any other periodical. The prose was considered the most humorous, urbane, and sophisticated to be found anywhere. So highly was the magazine regarded that a series of arguments between its first editor, John Scott, and rival ...

Deism was often synonomous with "natural religion" (as distinct from "revealed religion") in the 17th and 18th centuries, it meant a belief in God but not in any particular mystical or supernatural powers. Interest in deism was not so much a movement or philosophical system as it was a concept which allowed those who were uneasy with the elements of superstition in revealed religion to reconcile with the expanding boundaries of religion and sp...

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Europe's Economic Challenge considers what sort of industrial economic strategy would prepare Europe for the next century. The authors examine the broad approaches to industrial policy and explore future possibilities for what is needed if these policies are to become reality.

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Frances Cherry provides an alternative approach to social psychology which acknowledges the limits of shared understandings often imposed by class, race, culture, nationality, ethnicity, language and gender.

This book examines the ways in which aluminium and its alloys satisfy the requirements of civil engineering structures and the applications in which they compete with steel. The first edition has become known as an authoritative design reference book on the subject. As a result of the author's continuing research in the field, the new edition is thoroughly revised and updated.

Explores the manner in which English Renaissance poets invented a poetic genealogy. Falco applies the notion of "conceived presences" to the poets of the late 16th century who, intent on establishing a national literature, conceived the presence of their literary forebears, both ancient and modern.