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Dreaming the Great Brahmin explores the creation and recreation of Buddhist saints through narratives, poetry,...

We all know what the words cat and dog and mother and tree mean. What...

The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging...

Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary...

Our world of increasing and varied conflicts is confusing and threatening to citizens of all...

Covering the entire period from the colonial era to the late twentieth century, this book...

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it...

The Internet is now a part of American democracy. A majority of Americans are online...

The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious...

In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian...

Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate...

In recent years, religion- and culture-based approaches to conflict resolution have been implemented at both...

This collection offers a new rationale and framework for international development cooperation. Its main argument...

From answering the question "Why teach writing?" to offering guidance in managing group work and...

Is the Internet destined to upset traditional political power in the United States? This book...

According to virtually every business writer, we are in the midst of a new "information...

As the Cold War era becomes history, we are entering an age when international conflict...

For centuries, westerners have referred to China's numerous traditions of spiritual expression as "religious"--a word...

The last two issues of the 1993 Journal of Communication featured a discipline-wide self-analysis, collecting...

Extending the visionary early work of the late Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village, one of...

From William Wrigley's advertising maxim "Tell them quick and tell them often," to all-purpose words...

This in-depth study of the economics of urbanization and development explores the key characteristics of...

Bringing together major writings on a wide range of conceptual issues underlying the theory and...

The growth of service and high-tech industries in recent years has dramatically altered the geographical...

A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In...

Synthesizing the vast amount of research done in the last two decades on the roles...

Deregulation was a political buzzword of the early 1980's. The Reagan Administration came to power...

A Dictionary of American Proverbs is a treasury of more than 15,000 sayings, adages, and...

Focusing on the postwar automation of the American metal-working industry--the heart of the modern industrial...

An invaluable pocket dictionary for Greek-speaking learners of English.

The tragic slaughter of the trenches is imprinted on modern memory; but it is more...

The Oxford Essential Arabic Dictionary is a brand-new compact Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionary that offers...

The Oxford Paperback Dictionary & Thesaurus is a great value-for-money product. It is the ultimate...

The Compact Oxford Dictionary & Thesaurus is the ultimate one-stop reference, containing both a dictionary...

The Handbook of West European Pension Politics provides scholars, policy-makers and students with a complete...

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an...

The first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and for...

This book is concerned with the question of how people in developing countries survive, and...

In this book, Miguel Basáñez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on...

India's economic model underwent transformational change following independence in 1947. The country's first Prime Minister,...

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have...

The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory provides an authoritative overview of the science of human...

This book offers a timely and engaging account of how technologies of communication media impact...