"This book will introduce readers to methods of assessing building performance, illustrated with case studies from around the world. The key knowledge and skills necessary to carry out building performance assessment have been brought together in a single volume, in a book with …
Combining deep moral argument with extensive factual inquiry, Richard Miller constructs a new account of international justice. Though a critic of demanding principles of kindness toward the global poor and an advocate of special concern for compatriots, he argues for standards…
Presenting the subject on a truly global scale, historian Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world. From the maritime expeditions connecting Queen Hatshe…
Presenting the subject on a truly global scale, historian Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world. From the maritime expeditions connecting Queen Hatshe…
In this book, Randall D. Germain explores the international organization of credit in a changing world-economy. At the center of his analysis is the construction of successive international organizations of credit, built around principal financial centers and constituted by over…
Beschrijving van veel facetten van de Nederlandse bloementeelt en -handel, zowel vroeger als nu, met extra nadruk op Aalsmeer en de veiling aldaar.
This atlas provides the global assessment of the state of the world's mangroves. Mangroves are considered both ecologically and from a human perspective. Initial chapters provide a global view, with information on distribution, biogeography, productivity and wider ecology, as we…
"There is genuine cause for concern over the excessive exploitation of tropical forests in many regions, but also many misconceptions about its causes and sources." "The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trad…
"There is genuine cause for concern over the excessive exploitation of tropical forests in many regions, but also many misconceptions about its causes and sources." "The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trad…
Sustainable management of the world's livestock genetic diversity is of vital importance to agriculture, food production, rural development and the environment. This publication is the first global assessment of these resources. Drawing on 169 Country Reports, contributions from…
In 11 essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more.
Past attempts to answer this question have ranged widelyfrom less than 1 billion to more than 1,000 billion - one sign that there is no single right answer. More than half of the estimates, however, fall within a much narrower range: between 4 billion and 16 billion. In any case…
Well before modern times, Asian, African, and European peoples were regularly interacting and intermingling with each other. Their encounters rank among the most effective agents of change in all of world history, fostering the spread of technologies, ideas, beliefs, values and …
Whether it is Turkish gastarbeiter in Germany, Japanese Nisei in Seattle, Filipinos in Kuwait, or Haitians in Brooklyn, the costs and benefits of human mobility on such a wide and rapid scale are hotly debated. Global History and Migrations, the second volume of the Global Histo…
