Bøger udgivet af Kegan Paul

This study analyzes the international regime and outcome of hunger, as well as their effects on the incidence of hunger. It examines four areas upheld as the solutions to the problem of world hunger: family planning; food trade; structural adjustment; and food aid.

Focuses on the archaizing spirit that reached its climax under the Saite 26th Dynasty (664-525 B.C.), resurrecting elements from earlier stages of Egyptian civilization.

An account of the Gulf crisis, written by someone intimately linked to many of the key people involved. It takes an "insider" perspective, and reveals many facts.

The changes that have taken place in Japan as a result of rapid economic growth, have renewed interest in the work of Yanagita Kunio. This book offers a re-evaluation of his writings.

Based on over 30 years of study, this volume communicates various aspects of the Buddhist Tantra through research based on Tantric texts.

Offers a theoretical perspective on the study of social change in the Pacific islands, covering: Hawaii, French Polynesia, American and Western Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall and Caroline islands, Guam and the northern Marianas islands.

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is about literature and the creative process in areas formerly colonised by Europeans. The book consists of lectures in which matters essential to the colonised person are discussed at length.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

For more than fifty years, Ward travelled remote areas of the Far East looking for beautiful flowers and shrubs likely to thrive in western gardens and for new botanical specimens. His discoveries included new kinds of rhododendrons, lilies, gentians, primulas and the legendary Tibetan blue poppy. This is a narrative of his adventures and discoveries in Tibet in 1933, illustrated with his own photographs. Ward conveys the excitement of exploration, the thrill of danger and the rewards of discovery as, in one precarious situation after another, he discovers new plants and seeds.

Based on research in the region, this book examines the struggle for Namibia's independence from the regional perspective of southern Africa over a period of 45 years, from 1945 to 1990.

Surveys the development of enterprise unionism; uses case studies to examine the reasons for labour's retreat from its traditional role in industrial relations; and uses case studies to comment on the potential of the enterprise union in the last decade of this century.