Social Science 96

When George Orwell published his dystopian novel 1984 in 1949, many believed that the totalitarian state that Orwell described couldn't possibly come into existence by the year 1984. Others thought ……続きを見る

Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied ……続きを見る

This book is headed to common people: to students who are making that they imagine as their own future; to industrialists who naively believe to be in the edge, the peak, or to be going on the way; ……続きを見る

Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to underst……続きを見る

Rescapé de la rafle du 10 janvier 1944, orphelin ballotté d’institutions en familles d’accueil qui deviendra finalement un médecin de renom, Boris Cyrulnik a lui-même fait l’expérience de cette « ré……続きを見る

This booklet contains two articles and some photographs. the first Article about Audrey Hepburn's familiarity with Tagore's works and the second about the popularity of the Indian film star Shahrukh……続きを見る

based largely on information provided in fourteen country reports submitted to FAO as part of the reporting process for the report on The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. ……続きを見る

Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to……続きを見る

FAO, in collaboration with other members of the Fertilizer Outlook Expert Group dealing with fertilizer production, consumption and trade, provides forecasts of world and regional fertilizer supply,……続きを見る

Un ouvrage qui permet de dépassionner le débat religieux en tâchant de conjuguer de façon très convaincante la foi et la raison. Ratio et fides, raison et foi avaient, jadis, été jugées complémentai……続きを見る

La tauromaquia es más que un espectáculo sangriento. Debe verse en su contexto desde la prehistoria hasta nuestro futuro lejano. La biología, ecología, economía, evolución, y más se conjugan con nue……続きを見る

This report examines how forests contribute to or suffer from disasters. Three events are examined: the tempest Gudrun (Sweden, 2005); the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami (Japan 2011); and the 2017 fi……続きを見る

The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of ……続きを見る

The main objective of this report is to provide a synthesis of the climate change mitigation and adaptation priorities in the agriculture and land use sectors set forth in the Nationally Determined ……続きを見る

De nombreux programmes de protection sociale, y compris les transferts monétaires, les programmes de travaux publics et les transferts d'actifs, ciblent les femmes en tant que principales bénéficiai……続きを見る

This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives ……続きを見る

The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with majo……続きを見る

To achieve SDG 2 in the region, more than 3 million people must escape hunger each month from now until December 2030. In most countries in the region, the diets of more than half of all very young ……続きを見る

This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These includ……続きを見る

Developed through leveraging different expertise in FAO, it is a key resource to assist professionals involved in different areas - from breeding to production; from food transformation and packagin……続きを見る

Latin America and the Caribbean managed to reduce the number of undernourished by 20 million compared to the year 2000. However, 2018 marks the fourth consecutive year in which hunger shows a contin……続きを見る

Are you ready to learn how to master every social interaction? Do it today when you buy this amazing box set collection for skyrocketing your emotional intelligence and dealing with difficult people……続きを見る

The past few decades have seen dramatic improvements in the region in access to food, reduction in stunting rates, in premature death and disability caused by communicable, maternal, neonatal, and n……続きを見る

**DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!** A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half o……続きを見る

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. ……続きを見る

A multi-purpose reference work which should become an indispensable companion for anybody who comes into touch with Hinduism. Includes a dictionary of Sanskrit and vernacular terms; a glossary of te……続きを見る

De nombreux programmes de protection sociale, y compris les transferts monétaires, les programmes de travaux publics et les transferts d'actifs, ciblent les femmes en tant que principales bénéficiai……続きを見る

Actrice, réalisatrice, femme engagée, Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990) refuse toute sa vie de se laisser enfermer dans un rôle ou une image. S'inventer, se trouver, se réinventer fut sa raison de vivre. ……続きを見る

The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work fu……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST “The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”ーJason Zweig, The W……続きを見る