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This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need.

This is the first biography of a world-famous pioneering development economist, Sir Hans W. It gives a detailed account of the way in which the 'twists of fate' led him to becoming a leading development economist.

Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Employing a highly interdisciplinary methodology and an original theory makes it possible to see how personal agency and identity developed within the framework of later medieval power structures.

Since Mary Shelley drew inspiration for Frankenstein from the scientific speculations to which she attended as a 'nearly silent listener' at the now famous chateau in Switzerland, many other women have been similarly motivated to produce works informed by scientific theory.

This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues.