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Concentrates on ethnic minorities such as former slaves, outcastes and indigenous peoples dispossessed of homeland. This book asks why these socially excluded groups remain at the bottom of their social hierarchies as the poorest of the poor, even in nations long committed to equal opportunity.

Explores the formal and mythic attractions, congruencies and incompatibilities of the French and Arabic imaginations and poetic traditions in poems that open like a suitcase filled with alphabets.

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Throughout the English-speaking world, and in the many other countries where analytic philosophy is studied, Hillel Steiner is esteemed as one of the foremost contemporary political philosophers. This volume is designed as a festschrift for Steiner and as an important collection of philosophical essays in its own right. The editors have assembled a roster of highly distinguished international contributors, all of whom are eager to pay tribute ...

Focusing on recent developments in engineering science, enabling hardware, advanced technologies, and software, this edition provides clear, comprehensive coverage of mechatronic and electromechanical systems.

Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. By turns operatic and surreal, Wright's stunning and richly imagined storytelling is a blend of myth and s...

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Although there are books available that describe a single plastic conversion process, such as injection molding, few if any sources describe and compare a comprehensive list of such processes. This book answers that need by providing a basic overview of seven conversion processes used in the industry-methods that account for the creation of more than 97% of all plastic products. Each chapter begins with a process attribute table to serve as a ...

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Do you want a holiday that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience? Do you want a holiday that is enriching for you - and for the locals at your destination? This title provides fresh ideas for your next holiday.

The export wave of China's manufacturing machine and the Global financial crisis show that Globalization has limits. This book argues that research is producing evidence that there are limits to such globalization and amalgamation and that these need to be better defined and understood if some of the problems being identified are to be prevented.

Presenting a comprehensive reference work on African literature, this book contains over 600 alphabetically arranged entries that cover major and less established African authors and texts, criticism and theory, and African Literature's development as a field of scholarship. It is suitable for students of African literature.

Centrarchid fishes, also known as freshwater sunfishes, include such prominent species as the Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass and Bluegill. They are endemic to Eastern North America where they form part of a multi-million dollar sports fishing industry, but they have also been widely introduced around the globe by recreational anglers, in aquaculture programs and by government fisheries agencies. Centrarchid Fishes provides comprehensive cov...

Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been assumed explicitly to be 'the' solution for managing the limited water resources of the world. This work provides an analysis that indicates that IWRM has been unsuccessful in Latin America and is unlikely to succeed.

Increases in lightness and slenderness of footbridges have brought various design requirements. This book is suitable for civil and mechanical engineers working on footbridges or related infrastructural projects.

Emily is not your average thirteen-year-old girl. She wears the same black dress every day. She loves maths and science. Her best friends are four black cats and she's into old rock and punk music. Emily is anything but typical and so is this exciting new series of novels about her life.

Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. This title provides a study of contemporary and emergent design activism. It reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge.

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It has been more than 10 years since the publication of the acclaimed, bestselling first edition, and many changes have happened in food properties. This book addresses these changes while maintaining the previous edition's user-friendly qualities.

The literature and art of Augustan Rome are often thought of as the product of an age of high classicism, characterized by maturity, balance, and harmony. This volume examines the presence of what might be seen as an unclassical love of paradox and the marvellous, and shows that it is an important strain in the poetry of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as in prose works of history and rhetoric, and in the Augustan visual arts. The volume inc...