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Japan’s Asian Diplomacy: Power Transition, Domestic Politics, and Diffusion of Ideas (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Japan’s Asian diplomacy under Prime Minister Shinz? Abe. Under the Kantei-centred policymaking system, Shinz? Abe has implemented assertive foreign policies with a slogan of ‘diplomacy taking a panoramic perspective of the world’. The analyses in...

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

Routledge, 2021

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas.

From data collected over the course of a year in a small...

Building the Population Bomb

Oxford University Press, 2021

Across the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take the blame for some of the world's most serious problems, from global poverty to environmental
degradation, and became an object of...

Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Routledge, 2020

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding...

Moon Machu Picchu: With Lima, Cusco & the Inca Trail (Travel Guide)

Moon Travel, 2020

Mystical, timeless, and full of adventure: embark on the trip of a lifetime to the jewel of Peru with Moon Machu Picchu. Inside you'll find:

Strategic trekking guides, including two to four days on the Inca Trail, five days on the Salcantay, and an Inca Jungle Trail...

Revolution in Development

University of California Press, 2021

Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of postrevolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international economic institutions. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico, the United States, and Great Britain, Christy Thornton meticulously traces how Mexican officials repeatedly...

Macroeconomic Policy in Fragile States

Oxford University Press, 2021

Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states. Political legitimacy concerns are heightened, raising issues such as who the policymakers are, what incentives they face, and how the process of policymaking is likely to work under limited legitimacy and high uncertainty
both about the macroeconomic environment...

How to Write in Arabic: Developing Your Academic Writing Style

Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2021

How to Write in Arabic teaches intermediate and advanced learners how to use the Arabic linguistic features that are key to achieving written fluency. Each unit contains carefully selected exercises where students practise their vocabulary and grammar in a wide range of registers and contexts – such as writing a CV, a...

Debating Equal Pay for All: Economy, Practicability and Ethics (Palgrave Debates in Business and Management)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Philosophical questions, when first encountered by the uninitiated, often seem either silly or meaningless. Why is there something rather than nothing? Do physical objects continue to exist when nobody is perceiv- ing them? Does it make sense to say “this sentence is false”? What is beauty? This book boldly adds a new...

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics (Routledge International Handbooks)

Routledge, 2021

We are delighted to have finalized the Handbook of Feminist Economics project we began in summer 2018. We set off with the goal of taking stock of the accumulated wisdom on feminist economics from the social provisioning perspective to feminist economics, delineated by Marilyn Power in 2004. Power’s short piece inductively...

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