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Set against the political turmoil of Southern Africa in the mid 1900s, The Rattle of Seeds tells the story of two young men.Martin, a product of colonial Africa, qualifies as a physician. He is intelligent and deeply sensitive - even a little tortured. He struggles with relationships and lacks self-esteem. Mandla, a Swazi, grows up in a traditional, rural homestead. He is streetwise, confident and promiscuous.Constrained by their very differen...

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The quest for a steady food supply sparked plant breeding attempts over 12, 000 years ago. The Concise Encyclopedia of Crop Improvement is a comprehensive resource explaining the development of crop improvement methods over the centuries. This extensive history of development is examined in detail, including influential individuals in the field, plant cultivation in Asia since the Neolithic time, techniques used in the Old World, and cropping ...

A typological survey of Subject, Object and related grammatical concepts in the languages of the world.

To achieve sustainable resource management, it is essential to obtain insightful guidance from emerging disciplines such as landscape ecology. This text addresses the links between landscape ecology and natural resource management, discussing these links in the context of various landscape types, diverse sets of resources, and broad ranges of management issues. A large number of landscape ecology concepts, principles, and methods are introduce...

This collection of Professor Brandon's recent essays covers all the traditional topics in the philosophy of evolutionary biology.

Professor Devitt takes up one of the most important difficulties that must be faced by philosophical semantics: namely, the threat posed by holism.

Essays tracing the roots and development of total industrialized warfare in the United States and Germany.

A study of the stabilizing socio-political role of Muslim Sufi orders in Senegal.

A new look at Marx, showing how he provides a sociology of ideas which is still of value in explaining how social life shapes and distorts people's ideas and beliefs.

This book contains a comprehensive treatment of the theory of production in a long-period framework.

Concise overview of Japanese economic history between 1868 and 1941, with a comprehensive guide to further reading (now updated to 1994).

Comprehensive economic analysis of the main determinants of growth in the mobile telecommunications industry.

Northrop Frye's status as one of the most influential critics and intellectuals of the twentieth century makes it difficult to gauge the personal qualities of the man behind the work. However, an intimate picture is revealed through the correspondence Frye exchanged with his first wife, Helen Kemp, and which he bequeathed to Victoria College at the time of his death. In A Glorious and Terrible Life with You, Margaret Burgess presents the essen...

Lavishly illustrated, this new edition includes family photographs and original graphics by both Helen Kemp and her father, S.H.F. Kemp, mostly dating from his own student days at the University of Toronto.

A unique blend of philosophy and quantitative research, Health Inequality will prove a valuable tool for academics and policymakers alike.

Examines the role of the Victorian periodical in defining and refining ideas of gender.

David Wiles considers theatrical activity "happening" in churches, streets, pubs and galleries, as well as in buildings explicitly designed to be "theaters, " in this historical account. Surveying performance space usage within the traditions of Western Europe, Wiles traces a diverse set of continuities, from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas not included in standard accounts of theater history.

Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious ritual systems.

A comprehensive survey of the history of the family in Western Europe and North America.