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Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823
Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823
Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central...
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species

If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory
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Integration as Solution for Advanced Smart Urban Transport Systems: 15th Scientific and Technical Conference “Transport Systems. Theory & Practice ... in Intelligent Systems and Computing (844))
Integration as Solution for Advanced Smart Urban Transport Systems: 15th Scientific and Technical Conference “Transport Systems. Theory & Practice ... in Intelligent Systems and Computing (844))

Methods of advanced data collecting and their analysis, models which help with decision problems as well as technical solutions which improve the integrity of contemporary transport systems at urban area are only some of many problems connected with integration in passenger and freight transport which have been discussed in this...

Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing)
Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing)

Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and analyze the future of the sector, including the imminent...

The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main water source

At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations—from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing
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Conflicted American Landscapes
Conflicted American Landscapes
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
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Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns (Social Change in Contemporary India)
Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns (Social Change in Contemporary India)
Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns captures the evolution of key debates on women’s rights in independent India. Authored by eminent scholars and emerging experts of their time, the articles encapsulate developments which have given the women’s rights movement and women’s studies imaginative...
Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of
colonial states. Although
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The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments
The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments
Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social organization is often a feature of local organization. While those forces may seem beyond...
Business Analysis and Design: Understanding Innovation in Organisation
Business Analysis and Design: Understanding Innovation in Organisation
A logo is usually some form of graphic—a visualisation used by organisations, groups or even individuals to aid and promote instant recognition. When we use logos within this book, they are designed to promote recognition of some of the fundamentally different ways of thinking you will experience.

As a logo
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Ethics, Morality and Business: The Development of Modern Economic Systems, Volume I: Ancient Civilizations
Ethics, Morality and Business: The Development of Modern Economic Systems, Volume I: Ancient Civilizations
This book is interdisciplinary trying to combine ancient history and modern business ethics. Civilization begins, not with the invention of agriculture, but with the articulation almost 70,000 years ago, according to Puranas, the set of books of history from the beginning of the world, in Sanskrit, with a valid ethical code....
Building the Population Bomb
Building the Population Bomb
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
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