The author explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home if they are displaced from it; …
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This book follows the history of the international law of peace and armed conflict over the last 25 years. It highlights both the parameters that have remained the same over the years as well as the new challenges now facing international law. The articles analyze new developmen…
The author offers a tour through the life history and cultural associations of the freshwater eel, exploring its biology in streams and epic migrations in the ocean, myth and lore, mystery and beauty. He travels the globe to tell the story of the eel—from New York to New Zealand…
"Settler societies are those in which European migrants have become politically dominant over indigenous peoples and a heterogeneous social structure has developed. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contempo…
Settler economies in world history
by Metzer, Jacob, Lloyd, Christopher
fromGlobal economic history series
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Settler colonialism was a major aspect of the imperial age that began in the sixteenth century and has encompassed the whole world unto the present. Modern settler societies have together constituted one of the major routes to economic development from their foundation in resour…
Bats: from evolution to conservation
by Altringham, John D., Hammond, Lucy, McOwat, Tom
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Bats are highly charismatic and popular animals that are not only fascinating in their own right, but illustrate most of the topical and important concepts and issues in mammalian biology. This book covers the key aspects of bat biology, including evolution, flight, echolocation…
The production of "human waste" - or more precisely, wasted lives, the "superfluous" populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is character…
"Globalization is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irreversible. In Globalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914 - the first gr…
In the Modernity of Witchcraft, Peter Geschiere uses his own experiences among the Maka and in other parts of eastern and southern Cameroon, as well as other anthropological research, to argue that contemporary ideas and practices of witchcraft are more a response to modern exig…
This book challenges generalised assumptions about ethnicity in Britain by positing that Italian identity formation cannot be understood in racial terms alone.
Across the dark waters : ethnicity and Indian identity in the Caribbean
by Cross, Malcolm, Samaroo, Brinsley, Premdas, Ralph, Shepherd, Verene A., Mahabir, Noorkumar, Maharaj, Ashram, Vertovec, Steven, Veer, Peter van der, Birbalsingh, Frank, Mangru, Basdeo, Soares Ramesar, Marianne
fromWarwick University caribbean studies
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Why are adivasis fighting the Narmada dam and other development projects in India today? Are adivasis 'ecologically noble savages' living in harmony with nature? What is the tribal relationship with nature today? How do people, whose struggles are the subject of theories of libe…
Shows that NESB (Non-English Speaking Background) migrant women are over represented in occupations that have low pay and poor working conditions. This work also shows that they are disadvantaged (and discriminated against) in the Australian labour market due to poor English, no…