Hanging in the Balance traces the history of capital punishment in the United Kingdom from ancient times to the modern day-through periods of reform until hanging for murder was finally abolished by Parliament in 1969. It describes in detail the Parliamentary and public debates, and notes the stance taken by organizations and individuals (including the tenacious and persistent Sydney Silverman MP). The book collates data and references not pre...
This book uses Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in the conflict with Finland, and examines the diplomatic, organisational and social aspects of Soviet's 'strategic culture
Suitable for professionals working with groups that are developing social skills and exploring relationships, this handbook features a collection of workshops covering specific themes. Each theme is divided into warm-ups, main exercises and closures.
Discusses the geometry and arithmetic of elliptic curves. This book includes modern interpretations of some famous classical algebraic theorems such as Abel's theorem on the lemniscate and Hermite's solution of the fifth degree equation by means of theta functions.
David E Apter reviews the efficacy of the concepts in his original study of bureaucratic nationalism in Uganda of almost a century ago, including some, such as consociationalism', which have entered into the mainstream of comparative politics.
These treasured booklets offer thoughtful, positive advice on almost every human experience. Helpful in examining character defects or in exploring the realm of spirituality, these booklets are firmly grounded in the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The first book available devoted exclusively to China's rural organizational change and the subsequent implications for rural societies and politics. Following China's successful decollectivization, diverse new organizational forms arose in response to different local situations. Yet the collective tradition did not die. The contributors dissect the closely structured relationships among the newly emerging class of rural entrepreneurs, local o...
The Basil Society's China mission, one of the ore successful Protestant missions in the nineteenth century, was distinguished by the fact that most of the initial proselytizing was conducted by Chinese converts in the interior rather than by Western missionaries in the treaty ports. Thus the first viable protestant communities were not only established by Chinese evangelists, they were established among an ethnic minority in south China, the H...
The changing economic conditions of the 1990s now demand a review of the framework and adaptation to conditions currently prevailing in the government's role in social welfare. Recognizing that the national political leadership no longer was willing to support all of the public programs and benefits that it had initiated in the past 50 years, the authors assume that a downsizing of the national government's role in social welfare will occur. T...
This book uses Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in the conflict with Finland, and examines the diplomatic, organisational and social aspects of Soviet's 'strategic culture
The transition to sustainable development will test government and democracy in a fundamentally radical way. There is probably no such end state as truly sustainable development. So the pathways towards it are endless. In any case, like a mirage, sustainable development will metamorphose like a more distant goal as it is approached. This series of essays looks at three elements of sustainable development in terms of the institutional challenge...