This book describes the different forms of aid over the last 65 years and analyses why they changed. As old concepts reappear with new donors, professionals and students will benefit from studying this history. Is the pendulum swinging back?
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
The letters of Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft mirror efforts by the World Council of Churches to unite Christianity and confront an age of crisis. To mitigate political tensions, they raised their voices to presidents and prime ministers.
Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, these volumes examine the effects on their diasporas, focusing on approaches from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.
The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan
Poet, novelist, and fighter for justice, Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, the Great War, and civil war. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, her autobiographies and letters provide valuable insight into her extraordinary life.
Time’s Fool
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
The Age of Asian Migration
These publications revisit different forms and histories of migration in Asia and the varied diasporas formed by Asian migrants, and provide both updated data on Asian migration and suggest new ways of looking at global migration overall.
This book presents methods to help children, adolescents, and families deal with adversity. It focuses on strengthening social, emotional, and learning skills and promoting child, family, and school resilience for professionals, teachers, and parents.
This three-volume manual provides information on 262 species of southern African decapods, providing updates to their taxonomy, and ecological and fisheries information. It is arranged systematically, progressing from the earliest forms to the most derived and advanced forms.
Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
Forest and the Water Cycle
Do forests help or harm our water supply? This book unites international experts from forestry and water management to answer this critical question. It offers scientific perspectives and case studies to help protect water resources in forested areas.
Lemesos
This is the first scholarly work in English on the history of Limassol, Cyprus, from antiquity to the 1570 Ottoman conquest. Six scholars explore Limassol’s political, social, economic, artistic, and cultural history.
The syllable is the result of several viewpoints. This book draws inspiration from the quaternion scheme of Hamilton and Saussure, presenting historical observations, descriptive analyses, instrumental analysis, and theoretical considerations on the topic.
The Intercountry Adoption Debate
Intercountry adoption is a complex, global, and deeply personal issue. This volume gives voice to all sides of the debate, featuring writings from top scholars, parents, policymakers, and adoptees from around the world.
This volume discusses the strategies and means employed by the Round Table Movement to maintain the British Empire’s global prominence. Its main argument is that we did not have a “British century” and an “American century” but, rather, four centuries of Anglo-Saxon supremacy
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished through intense cultural exchange. This series draws an alternative map of Hungary, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives that balance Western-Hungarian relationships.
Global Safari
Global Safari is a memoir-travelogue chronicling a journey from a local village in the Congo to the global village. It is a story of courage, international friendship, hope, and homecoming—the quest and conquest of a new self through transits and transitions.
Where Theory and Practice Meet
Wong focuses on the translation process, on theory formulation, on getting to grips with translation problems, and on explaining translation in language. He covers language pairs and discusses, among other things, translations, such as those of Dante’s La Divina Commedia.
Renewable Energy
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
International Conference on Use-Wear Analysis
This volume explores use-wear studies as a proxy for prehistoric techno-cultural reconstruction. Discussing various research methods, techniques, chronologies, and regions, this book will be of interest to both archaeologists and anthropologists.
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