Filter by
The International Monetary Fund and Latin America : The Argentine Puzzle in C…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF’s intervention, there are influential interactions between IMF technocrats and local economists—even when countries are not borrowing money. In The International Monetary Fund and Latin America, Kedar seek…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781439909119
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
Ethics and Civil Drones
Codes of conduct; European policies; Civil drones; Safety and security; Creative industry
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319710877
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Contemporary Bioethics
Human Genetics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Ethics
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783642256424
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Teaching ethics in organ transplantation and tissue donation - cases and movies
Organ transplantation is a thrilling new option for modern surgery giving hope for chronically ill patients, and, at the same time, stirring controversial ethical questions on human identity and the meaning of the human body. Being a global and transnational endeavor, organ transplantation raises universal ethical concerns and, yet, has to be adapted to culturally mediated believes. In this boo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783941875401
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Life in Transit : Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950
"Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich’s widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlich’s personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Lodz during t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-9346235-21-6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
- Call Number
- 940.531 809 2 RED l
The Planning Polity
Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake :
2009 was the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893). Bringing together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence, the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake reveals significant new material about this extraordinary figure in Victorian society. The scope of Lady Eastlake’s writing is w…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978–1–84631–194–9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 920 LET
Planning for Crime Prevention
Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues and relates them to the contribution that urban planners and participative planning processes can make in response to these problems. Its focus is thus on the extent to which crime opportunities can be prevented or reduced through the design, planning …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
Housing and Social Policy
This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender,…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
The Frightened Land
An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, the focus of this book includes the spatial, political and cultural landscape practices of the apartheid government an…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203016916
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography