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This book offers a thematic discussion of the key issues surrounding the rise of China and what that will mean to people outside China in the years ahead.

A rare analysis that – for the first time – examines the crises of a region mired in political strife and ambiguity.

The purpose of this treatise is to bring the characteristics of the disastrous events of the region to the fore, seeking to present not only the continuing fatalities and fragilities of the area, but also the possibilities for coping with natural disasters.

A pioneering study on energy sector reform and liberalization in developing countries.

An engaging and enigmatic historical review of the way in which some countries have become economic successes, leaving others in their wake.

This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.

This delightful text combines the practicalities of a travel guide with the revealing observations of social journalism.

A beguiling account of twentieth-century America through the eyes of an outsider, a remarkable inversion of the standard 'Westerner observing the exotic' travel writing formula.

A war correspondent's breathtaking account of early twentieth-century wars, including the Greek-Turkish War (1897) and the Spanish-American War (1898).

An engaging, important text calling for the reform of economics and pushing for the discipline to become an honest and effective tool for democracy.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century autonomy has become one of the major concerns of our social and political existence. The right to autonomous life is now a political, cultural and social call of both the individual and group. The present volume is a critical attempt to understand autonomy from both historical and analytical perspectives. Autonomy, in this collective reading, emerges as deeply rooted in social practices and contentious politics.

A comprehensive evaluation of the Russian oil and natural gas industry and its pivotal role in the volatile Russian economy.