hurst co feb 2012 (13 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Divided into three parts dealing with environmental crisis and its cause, understanding the crisis, and possible remedial measures, the book provides a balanced understanding of the major issues and concerns related to the environment, both locally in India and globally.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Kashmir has been a contested territory ever since the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947. Despite international attention focused on Kashmir, little is known about the Pakistan-administered Jammu & Kashmir (PAJK), which is at the centre of this study. The author is a winner of the European Commission Award for Human Rights and Democracy.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is a global examination of jihadi thought. It considers Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Departing from the 'security' angle, the contributors consider jihadi thought in terms of history, geography, and philosophy.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Encyclopedia of Country Music is the most comprehensive reference work on this musical genre with deep roots in American history. Compiled by staff of the legendary Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Encyclopedia includes 1,200 A-Z entries on all aspects of country music, as well as hundreds of images, informative and entertaining essays , and much more. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to cover the first decade of the twenty-first century and the evolution of the genre.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - More than 150 million Muslims live in India, the largest minority, yet they are losing power. The contributors consider the regional differences, the role of self-segregation, and the future of Muslims in India.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Using a macroeconomic growth approach, this book focuses on two important aspects of the Indian financial sector-development and access. It empirically analyses the structure, size, reach, and efficiency of the sector in the post-reform period and assesses availability of resources from the formal financial system to the productive sectors of the economy.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Drawing from a wide range of scholarship from mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century, this book looks at the history and politics of Tibet from a fresh perspective. Addressing the current debates on Tibet with intense academic rigor, Parshotam Mehra is able to focus on the issues of autonomy, the exodus of Tibetan refugees both to India and across the globe, human rights, and India's role vis-a-vis Tibet. He juxtaposes contemporary literature on Tibet against analyses of its history and politics and examines both the institutions of the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama as well as Tibet's ties with Imperial China, Communist China, the former British rulers of India, and the Tsars of Russia. In doing so, Mehra uncovers the various complexities of the current debates on Tibet. This volume is crucial as it boldly takes up the question of Tibetan sovereignty and the possible direction of conflict resolution in this disputed land.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A clear account of what has been discovered in recent years about quantum theory, its counter-intuitive features - non-locality, indeterminism, intrinsic uncertainty - and what it tells us about the universe. The book also explains how these ideas have led to a new subject of limitless possibilities - quantum information theory.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This pioneering biography of the British poet and translator David Gascoyne (1916-2001) candidly describes his creative work, involvement with surrealism, addictions, tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and France.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Provides an analysis of how EU transit security is affected by the governance structures of the Eurasian gas network and by asymmetrical power relations between its actors, in particular between Russia and western CIS states (Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova) and their national gas companies, and suggests how transit security threats can be reduced.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This series (released in a new edition every 5 years) captures the key characteristics, policy decisions and activities of the Australian government and its diplomatic staff during the preceeding 5 year period. It examines Australia's major bilateral relationships and central questions in policy-making and execution, as well as emerging or developing issues: in this volume, these chapters cover relations with Africa and with India, and innovations in the management of policy-making.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. The handbook is an indispensible source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural fieldwork.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdos, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.