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This book explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty, traps like poor nutrition, illiteracy, lack of access to health care, and others and presents eight keys to escaping these traps. Smith gives readers the tools they need to help people overcome poverty and to determine what approaches are most effective in fighting it.

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Hibbert traces his unstoppable rise to power, examines his legacy and reveals why he continues to be both revered and reviled by the Italian people.

This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking.

It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of the striking preoccupation with mortality and temporality that defines the imagined worlds of early fantasy fiction, and gives both the form of such fiction and its ideas the attention they deserve.

This book comprises a collection of well-researched essays on selected contemporary economic and finance issues in China, making a timely contribution to the intellectual intercourse regarding the implications of China's rise. These essays describe the state of China's ecology, real estate market, outbound capital flows, income inequality, etc., and offer analysis on the policy and institutional causes of those issues. Readers will be able to infer their implications for business opportunities in China and the tradeoff / tension between economic growth and social welfare. Moreover, this book introduces an array of data and data sources useful to scholars and practitioners interested in studying the Chinese model of economic growth. This book will be a valuable resource to journalists and scholars trying to keep track of China's lightning-fast growth.Juann Hung is an Associate Professor at International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has years of experience as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and then as the lead international analyst at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Her research is mainly on policy-related issues, such as effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention, macroeconomic effects of globalization, and the implications of China's growth model. Her research has been published as book chapters, policy and issue briefs, as well as papers in leading research journals. Yang Chen is a Lecturer at International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. Her research interests mainly include urban economics, Chinese economy and development issues. She has published in leading research journals such as Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Urban Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Economic Letters, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Asia and Pacific Journal of Management, and Economic Modelling.

This cutting edge book considers how advances in technologies and new media have transformed our perception of education, and focuses on the impact of the privatisation of digital tools as a mean of knowledge production. Arguing that education needs to adapt to the modern learner, the book's unique approach is based on a disassociation with the deeply ingrained attitude with which people have traditionally viewed education - learning the existing symbolic systems of certain disciplines and then expressing themselves strictly within the operational modes of these systems. The ways of knowledge production - exploring, recording, representing, making meaning of and sharing human experiences - have been fundamentally transformed through the infusion of digital technologies into all aspects of human activity, allowing learners to engage with their immediate natural, social and cultural environments by capitalising on their individual abilities and interests. This book proposes a new approach to teaching and learning termed 'cinematic bricolage', which involves generating knowledge from heterogeneous resources in a 'do-it-yourself' manner while making meaning through multimodal representations. It shows how cinematic bricolage reconnects ways of knowing with ways of being, empowering the individual with a sense of personal identity and responsibility, helping to shape more aware social citizens.

This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

Now in its 157th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions.

Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

1.Introduction:Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, ''Laughter & Conviviality''. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, ''Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens''s Pantomime Violence''. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, ''Edward Lear''s Travels in Nonsense and Europe''.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, ''"Capital Company": Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain''.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, ''George Eliot''s Jokes''.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, ''The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown''s Gag-book and Circus Performance''. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, ''"Sassin'' back": Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences''.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, ''"Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods": Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall''. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, ''Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Si├¿cle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall''. - 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, ''What was New about the "New Humour"?: Barry Pain''s "Divine Carelessness"''. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, ''Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde''s "Pen, Pencil and Poison"       

This critical sourcebook compiles excerpts from the extensive interviews undertaken by the Wolfenden Committee on the subject of prostitution. Crucially, this book highlights the substantial evidence gathered by the Committee on prostitution outside of London, which the Wolfenden Report itself largely disregarded.

This book charts the trajectory of travel journalism from its print based origins to the emergence of hybridised multi-platform content. It considers how this has led to not only different kinds of travel journalism but different kinds of travel journalists;

This book examines 'Southern Gothic' - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination.

Nelly Oudshoorn shows how telecare technologies participate in redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals, introducing a new category of healthcare workers, and changing the kinds of care and spaces where healthcare is situated.

This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in which writers can market a finished show and get it produced. For the interested theatregoer and writers, it is written in a lively and user-friendly style and illustrated with numerous examples.

Presenting the core theory of the multinational enterprise based on the internalisation of imperfect markets and the minimisation of location costs, The Future of Multinational Enterprise has inspired both theoretical and empirical research on the global economy.

This reissue of the authoritative Royal Economic Society edition of Essays in Persuasion features a new introduction by Donald Moggridge, which discusses the significance of this definitive work. The essays in this volume show Keynes' attempts to influence the course of events by public persuasion over the period of 1919-40.

By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American president - Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to his political and cultural triumphs and assess his legacy.

This welcome second edition of a classic text brings together six essays from the original edition with two co-authored pieces and a lively new introduction and concluding chapter that considers the changes over the last twenty years impacting on young women today.

This major new study weaves insights from new research into a comprehensive account of German social, political and cultural development across two and a half centuries.

The Thatcher era was a turbulent and controversial period in British politics. Andrew Gamble's authoritative account - now revised and updated to cover Thatcher's fall and legacy - analyses the ideology, statecraft, and economic and social programme of the Thatcher Government.

"Staging Masculinities" is a critical history of the ways in which changing concepts of masculinity have been represented, explored and critiqued on mainstream Western and particularly English stages. The study analyses a wide variety of plays.

It shows how scientists have used sonic skills-skills required for making, recording, storing, retrieving, and listening to sound-in ensembles: sets of instruments and techniques for particular situations of knowledge making.

This book examines how the Turkish Surname Law of 1934 was adopted and reframed in diverse social contexts at a time of top down nationalism. Through historical ethnography, the author explores the genesis of the law, its drafting in parliament, the Turkish Language Reform, and its reception.

Chile and the South American Games of Santiago 2014 offers an interesting case to examine an event of sizeable magnitude in a country with little history of hosting sport mega-events (SMEs).

This book provides a broad introduction to computational aspects of Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) which is a non-parametric technique and requires no prior assumptions such as stationarity, normality or linearity of the series.

It also explores devising in relation to the work of Simon McBurney and contemporary groups, and scenography in relation to the work of Dmitry Krymov, Robert Wilson and Robert Lepage.

This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It argues that, for authors of Muslim heritage in Britain, writing the senses is often a double-edged act of protest.

This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men's movements, and fathers' rights groups.