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The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society, to bring to light the potential and creative role of socio-cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral and spiritual values in progress and the development ...

The primary questions addressed by this study, first published in 1988, focus on how private bankers made decisions on the creditworthiness of developing countries during the 1970s and what the implications of these decision rules are for the developing countries today. Based on interviews with senior bankers about their decision rules, the author has developed artificial intelligence-based simulations of their images of creditworthiness. Disc...

This study of fundamental aspects of the oil decade examines the influence of oil production, export and revenues on domestic, regional and international relations.

This book traces the history of the development control system in Britain from early modern times to the present day.

In this account of the political culture of Ottoman rule in the late nineteenth century and the forces of opposition against it, the author examines a number of key political conspiracies and how these relate to the notion of legitimacy. In analysing the structure of these conspiracies, the motives and aims of the plotters, and their style of contestation, the author provides a detailed evaluation of Ottoman political culture of the period.

This book presents a detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the French conquest of Algeria.

Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a restructuring of everyone's lives. This collection of treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization.

A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Brings together Paul Williams' previously published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara.

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bringing together seminal papers from the Cambridge Journal of Education around the theme of curriculum and the teacher, this book explores the changing conceptions of curriculum and teaching and the changing role of the teacher in curriculum development.

First Published in 1963. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1978, this book assess the impact post-war strategies of Gross National Product maximation upon the development of LDCs, arguing that development in LDCs cannot proceed in a sequential path ¿ with income growth first first and distribution after. The author posits the need for a more egalitarian development strategy and decentralised economic planning, responsive to the needs of rural communities.

Filling a gap in the peacemaking and conflict literatures market and including a set of over 100 interviews with local political and community leaders, this book will be helpful to scholars, international organizations, and grassroots organizations.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Adopting a new approach to the subject, this book readdresses the study of language by considering the perspective on linguistic matters taken by lay speakers.

With new and existing evidence being reconsidered, this edited collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to discussing the Qajar system within the context of the wars that engulfed it and the periods of peace that ensued.

Barry Allen explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought. Challenging the hyperspecialized epistemology of modern Western philosophy, he urges his readers toward an ethical appreciation of why knowledge is worth pursuing.

State-of-the-art guide to a new movement in cognitive science showing how environmental and bodily structure shapes cognition.