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The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa

James Currey, 2021

On 3 September 1984 a bloody uprising set the African townships of the Vaal Triangle aflame. Triggered by dissatisfaction over rent increases and a local government that was failing to provide any meaningful political power or social transformation to the black majority, it heralded the insurrectionary period that was to profoundly...

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Basic Books, 2021

Don’t read this book at bedtime. Not that it’s frightening. It won’t give you nightmares. But it is so exhilarating, so stimulating, it’ll turn your mind into a whirling maelstrom of excitingly provocative ideas—you’ll want to rush out and tell someone rather than go to sleep. It is a victim of...

Leading Transformative Change Collectively

Routledge, 2020

This book directly helps decision-makers and change agents in companies, NGOs, and government bodies become more proficient in transformative, collaborative change in realizing the SDGs.

This practitioner’s handbook translates a systemic – and enlivening – approach to collaboration into day-to-day work...

Atmosphere of Collaboration: Air Pollution Science, Politics and Ecopreneurship in Delhi

Routledge, 2021

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives. Using key debates and interventions on air pollution, it examines the trajectories of environmental politics in the Delhi region, one of the most polluted areas in the world. It highlights the administrative struggles, public...

The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics

Aleph, 2021

In keeping with a long and established tradition in anthropological scholarship, all names of persons and characters mentioned in this book have been changed and otherwise anonymized in order to protect their identity, dignity, and safety. This convention has served anthropologists well for many years and it is all the more...

Beginning T-SQL: A Step-by-Step Approach

Apress, 2020

The card catalog at the local public library was my first database. The catalog made it possible to find books based on titles, authors, or subjects just like writing a SQL query. Of course, I could walk around and locate books because they were arranged thanks to the Dewey Decimal System, but having that old drawer-filled cabinet...

Conflicted American Landscapes

MIT Press, 2021

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists...

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

Viking Adult, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply...

Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry

University of New Mexico Press, 2019

In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people. Genay focuses on personal experiences in order to give a sense of the upheaval that accompanied the rise of the nuclear era. She...

Nanostructured Materials and their Applications (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)

Springer, 2020

The book provides an introduction to nanostructured materials and guides the reader through their different engineering applications. It gives an overview of nanostructured materials applied in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and materials science. Materials for different applications in...

eThekwini’s Green and Ecological Infrastructure Policy Landscape: Towards a Deeper Understanding

Springer, 2020

This book offers the reader a deeper understanding of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality’s green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape. The author utilises the PULSE3 analytical framework to conduct an in-depth examination and to show how experts frame and implement the municipality’s green and ecological infrastructure...

Innovation in Developing Countries: Lessons from Vietnam and Laos (Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research)

Springer, 2019

The main focus of this book is innovation for developing countries: what is the innovation for, what are the current conditions of the innovation, and how to effectively innovate in developing economies. It contains the latest insights and analyses of innovation based on intensive interviews as well as primary and secondary data of...

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