What this book represents is, quite literally, a "slice" of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, from soap operas to political behaviour, Gaile McGregor has constructed a model…
The balance of economic power is shifting. Countries that were once poor are becoming economic powerhouses. Yet poverty persists worldwide, depriving billions of people of basic necessities and the prospects of creating a better life. How are we responding to this challenge? Thi…
Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book takes a different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China’s…
Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found, such as those of the tiny …
Compares and contrasts aspects of Aboriginal economy and society across seven different regions. It reconstructs and explores the relationships between land and technologies.
Methods of hydrological basin comparison
by Institute of Hydrology (Great Britain), Robinson, M., (Mark), Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain), Conference of the European Network of Experimental and Representative Basins, Oxford, England)
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