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Provides
new ideas to address today's global development challenges, evaluating past
experience and exploring answers for the future.
Basic income: a transformative
policy for India /Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala , Soumya Kapoor Mehta and
Guy Standing.

The first
edition of this book attracted a record number of online hits. Busy public
sector managers now have available to them an updated version that integrates
an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that incorporates the many practical tips
needed for successful procurement activity.
Public debt, inequality, and power:
the making of a modern debt state /Sandy Brian Hager.
The first
comprehensive historical analysis of public debt ownership in the United
States. It reveals that ownership of federal bonds has been increasingly
concentrated in the hands of the 1 percent over the last three decades. Based
on extensive and original research, Public Debt, Inequality, and Power will
shock and enlighten.
Tells the
extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California,
created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries.
The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach
of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's
leading system of public research universities. Yet remarkably, the political
conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated.
Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?
LINGUISTICS
Syntax
of Dutch /Hans Broekhuis ... [et al.].
A synthesis
of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily
concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and
provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the
syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics.
PHILOSOPHY
The
Cambridge companion to medieval logic /edited by Catarina Dutilh Novaes and
Stephen Read.

The
Cambridge companion to Popper /edited by Jeremy Shearmur (Australian
National University), Geoffrey Stokes (RMIT University).

Purely
objective reality /by John Deely.

POLITICAL STUDIES
Barack Obama's post-American
foreign policy /Robert Singh
Robert
Singh argues that Obama's approach of 'strategic engagement' was appropriate
for a new era of constrained internationalism, but it has yielded modest
results. Obama's search for the pragmatic middle has cost him political support
at home and abroad, whilst failing to make decisive gains. Singh suggests by
calibrating his foreign policies to the emergence of a 'post-American' world,
the president has yet to preside over a renaissance of US global leadership.
PSYCHOLOGY
Clinical
handbook of couple therapy /edited by Alan S. Gurman.
What
is narrative therapy?: an easy-to-read introduction /by Alice Morgan. PRINT

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Facets of Facebook: use
and users /Katsiaryna S. Baran and Kathrin Knautz.
This
collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information
science articles about Facebook. We also consider Facebook as a source for
local temporary history and respond to acceptance and quality perceptions of
this social network service, as well. It is a much needed compilation written
by leading scholars in the fields of investigation of the impact of Web 2.0.
Scale: discourse and dimensions of
social life /edited by E. Summerson Carr and Michael Lempert.
This
pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the
communicative practices this labor requires. From an ethnographic perspective,
the authors demonstrate that scale is practice and process before it becomes
product, whether in the work of projecting the commons, claiming access to the
big picture, or scaling the seriousness of a crime.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES

This
Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old
Testament. Providing an up-to-date 'snapshot' of scholarship, it includes
essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by twenty-three leading
scholars. The volume examines a range of topics, including the historical and
religious contexts for the contents of the biblical canon, and critical
approaches and methods, as well as newer topics such as the Hebrew Bible in
Islam, Western art and literature, and contemporary politics. This Companion is
an excellent resource for students at university and graduate level, as well as
for laypeople and scholars in other fields who would like to gain an
understanding of the current state of the academic discussion.

The prime
object of this brief manual is to present as clearly, and in as small a compass
as possible, a simple statement of the
principal facts and incidents connected with the present state of the work in
various parts of the world. The author has carefully read and studied all the
communications of the missionaries which have been published from the
beginning; as well as some valuable manuscripts preserved at the Mission House
which have been placed at his disposal. The information gleaned from these
interesting records has been carefully tabulated, analysed and used after being
tested by the writer’s personal experience and observation during the past
fifty years.
SCIENCES
The
Cambridge companion to Newton /edited by Rob Iliffe, University of Oxford,
George E. Smith, Tufts University.
This new
edition of The Cambridge Companion to
Newton provides authoritative introductions to his endeavours as well as to
many aspects of his physics. It includes a revised bibliography, a new
introduction and six new chapters: updating previous chapters on Newton's
mathematics, his chemistry and alchemy and the reception of his religious views,
his ancient chronology and the treatment of continuous and discontinuous forces
in his second law of motion.
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