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Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA
Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...

Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)
Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)
Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral
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A Global Security Triangle: European, African and Asian interaction (Routledge/GARNET series: Europe in the World)
A Global Security Triangle: European, African and Asian interaction (Routledge/GARNET series: Europe in the World)

This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations.

The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union into new cooperation with Africa and Asia. These...

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

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...

Biotechnology and Agricultural Development: Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers
Biotechnology and Agricultural Development: Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers

This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it offers one of the best hopes for increasing agricultural production and reducing rural poverty, while opponents see it as an untested intervention that will bring corporate...

Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan
Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan
Alyssa Ayres' fascinating study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base great efforts would be required to make it truly national. This paradox underscores the importance of...
Technological Innovation Across Nations: Applied Studies of Coevolutionary Development
Technological Innovation Across Nations: Applied Studies of Coevolutionary Development

The book offers an interesting blend of applied state-of-the-art studies of coevolutionary development of institutions, innovation diffusion and innovative entrepreneurship, not published anywhere else. It can firstly be classified as belonging to mainstream endogenous growth studies on the country level, and secondly, to mainstream evolutionary...

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions originating beyond the West, but of the West’s own traditions.

This is the first collection of...

Pounder's Marine Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines, Ninth Edition
Pounder's Marine Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines, Ninth Edition
Since its first appearance in 1950, Pounder's Marine Diesel Engines has served seagoing engineers, students of the Certificates of Competency examinations and the marine engineering industry throughout the world. Each new edition has noted the changes in engine design and the influence of new technology and economic needs on the marine...
Everest : My Journey to the Top
Everest : My Journey to the Top
My father's name is Kishan Singh Pal. He was born in '. ' 1901 in Bampa, a small mountain village which was .. ' . part of the border district of Chamoli, in the Garhwal Himalaya. The village spread over both sides of the river, the gurgling, playful Dhauli Ganga.

My father is short and stocky. Like his father before him and most others
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Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail
Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail

In the new millennium, it is nearly impossible for us to talk about basic concerns like food or gas prices, without examining global intersections in trade, energy, immigration, the environment, and defense. Many countries once described as "developing" nations now wield greater economic and political influence than some of the...

The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut? (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut? (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other opiates of nearly 16 million users. The production...
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