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From the early forms of loans to farmers up to present day credit cards, consumer credit has always been part of human life; Outlining significant developments in different aspects of consumer credit from the Hammurabi Code through to current questions such as household overindebtedness, the authors shed historical light on modern debates.

Environmental decision-making in recent decades has become increasingly dependent on scientific expertise. Highlighting both theoretical and empirical perspectives, this volume brings together a distinguished group of environmental sociologists who critique and extend current thinking on what it means to live in a 'risk society'.

Travel writing has gained new appeal, and writers from the British Isles have been particularly productive and successful in this genre. Types of travel writing discussed include pilgrims' itineraries, exploration writing, tourist accounts as well as postmodern varieties.

Defining masochism as 'literary perversion', this book probes the productivity of masochistic aesthetics in the literature of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and contemporary queer films, analysing radical accounts of desire, gender, and sexuality.

Kim Dae Jung, Korea's legendary dissident-turned-president, ranks along with Nelson Mandela as the victor in one of the greatest political reversals of the 20th century. Elected president by 1.7% of the vote at the height of Korea's economic crisis in December 1997, DJ, as he is popularly known, faces his most severe challenge.

Kant defined the Enlightenment as humanity's attempt to leave behind its self-imposed immaturity. Social theory is thus charged with enlightening the human condition and its social constitution in order to achieve maturity and human dignity. The Politics of Change emphasizes 'change' as a project of human emancipation.

Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the political process which lay behind Japan's transformation into a modern nation state;

How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century?

Struggle for a Better South dispels the notion that all whites in the South stood united against social change in the 1960s.

Presents a portrait of a fractured nation whose many faces include those of Islamic fundamentalist and American ally. This work includes a chapter that sheds light on: the new king and conflicts to come; why Saudi Arabia is the source of insurgents and suicide bombers in Iraq; the troubling effects of high oil prices on Saudi society; and more.

In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omniscience, Pickover explains the kinds of relationships limited beings can have with an all-knowing God. Pickover's thought exercises, controversial experiments, and practical analogies help us transcend our ordinary lives while challenging us to better understand our place in the cosmos and our dreams of a supernatural God. Through an inventive blend of science, history, philosophy, science fiction, and mind-stretching brainteasers, Pickover unfolds the paradoxes of God like no other writer. He provides glimpses into the infinite, allowing us to think big, and to have daring, limitless dreams.

Animal behaviour expert, Dr Jonathan Balcombe, combines rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes to show that that animals, like humans, enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous struggle for survival and suggests that creatures feel good thanks to play, sex, food, comfort and more.

When 51 nations gathered in 1945 to witness the birth of the United Nations, international business groups urged governments to ratify the UN Charter without delay. This book examines why the global order of the 21st century demands a new partnership between the UN and business.

The first book in a heavily illustrated middle-grade series in which a precocious detective solves mysteries with her super-smart little brother.

In Trespassing Boundaries , ten contemporary Woolf scholars discuss a broad range of Woolf's short stories.

This book offers contemporary perspectives on English pronunciation teaching and research in the context of increasing multilingualism and English as an international language.

In Exchange Rate Forecasting the author sets out to provide a concise survey of the techniques of forecasting - bringing together the various forecasting methods and applying them to the exchange rate in a highly accessible and readable manner.

This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.

Over seven chapters the book shows how international communication has been shaped by the structure of international political power and how these means of global communication have in turn been strategic tools for the exercise of international political power.

This book is a detailed study of contemporary economic, political and security relations between Western Europe (now represented by the European Union) and China and the two emerging special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

"An examination of the influence--however contested--of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States"--Amazon.com.

This book explores literature in its role as a sacred text within the confines of 19th-century French primary and secondary education, helping the school to take over the role of spiritual authority from the Catholic Church.

Development thinking and development practice are in a state of flux - theory apparently offering little by way of solutions to the crisis of development. A unique feature of this book is that both orthodox and heterodox schools of development thinking are covered in an up to date and non-technical manner.

The idea of a 'Springtime of European Peoples', concepts of a universal republic and the awareness for the European dimension of the revolutionary events had an important impact on the ideas of 1848.

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment post-colonialism, Beyond Post-Colonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of colour as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony.

Many global companies have been focused upon strategic executive development within a competitive environment. This book shows how action learning can result in the effective and successful implementation of strategic executive development.

This increase in transparency is certain to have a major effect on international politics, and particularly on the possibility of armed conflict in the new millennium. This volume represents the first comprehensive collection of articles by leading scholars and policy analysts examining the effects of transparency on world politics.

The first Democratic president for twelve years, William Jefferson Clinton entered the White House on a note of optimism, pledged to give priority to economic policy and his domestic agenda of healthcare and welfare reforms. President Clinton - the 'Man from Hope' - faced what looked like a fresh opportunity to move ahead with legislation.

Told entirely through notes passed in school, diary entries, and the occasional e-mail, Cathleen Daly's Flirt Club is a hilarious and touching tween novel about love and lust with a heart, a brain, and a whole lot more. Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle-school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys-successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after-school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action.