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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World

Viking Adult, 2009

The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield

Uranium is a common element in the earth’s crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order—whoever could master uranium could master the...

Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

MIT Press, 2009

Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of...

New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa

Oxford University Press, 2009

When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of "indentured" labor was supposed to be different from slavery because the indenture, or contract, was written for an...

Introduction to Chemical Graph Theory (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

CRC Press, 2018

Introduction to Chemical Graph Theory is a concise introduction to the main topics and techniques in chemical graph theory, specifically the theory of topological indices. These include distance-based, degree-based, and counting-based indices. The book covers some of the most commonly used mathematical...

Pediatric Fitness: Secular Trends and Geographic Variability (Medicine and Sport Science, Vol. 50)

Karger, 2007

Over the years, there has been much controversy regarding whether today’s children and adolescents are fitter than their peers of the past and whether they are fitter if they live in the more affluent than the less affluent countries. This publication starts by examining data cumulated since the late 1950s on secular trends and...

Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization

Columbia University Press, 2021

Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he...

Circumcision and Human Rights

Springer, 2009

"There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don t exist," said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for "no good reason."

In the United States, parts of Africa, the Middle East,...

Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 (History of Warfare)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2014

Allied Fighting Effectiveness is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on a variety of different aspects of the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy, ranging from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe.

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Doing Business in Africa: From Economic Growth to Societal Development (Palgrave Studies of Internationalization in Emerging Markets)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book presents insights from cutting-edge international business and management research relating to Africa. Economic growth and foreign investment in the region remains strong, despite some slowing down in recent years. This trend of economic growth and its impact on international trade and FDI has attracted Western businesses,...

A Concise History of World Population

John Wiley & Sons, 2017

The latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas of Africa, international migration and population and environment have been strengthened and statistical information has been updated throughout.

A new edition of this classic...

From Workplace to Workspace: Using E-mail Lists to Work Together

IDRC Books, 1998

From a desktop, e-mail provides a quick, reliable and cost-effective link to the world at large, changing a traditional workplace into a workspace that crosses even international boundaries. In developing areas of the world such as Africa, Asia and Latin America, e-mail lists are currently outgrowing all other Internet-based technologies because of...

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