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Alors que la Décennie des Nations Unies pour la biodiversité 2011-2020 touche à sa fin et que les pays se préparent à adopter un cadre mondial pour la biodiversité pour l'après-2020, la présente édi……続きを見る

Emerging in the throes of a global pandemic that threatens Europe’s economies and food security, International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions combines a diverse range of empirically rich……続きを見る

The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things. Hershock applies Buddhi……続きを見る

From the world’s #1 body language expert* comes the essential book for decoding human behavior Joe Navarro has spent a lifetime observing others. For 25 years, as a Special Agent for the FBI, he con……続きを見る

Spesso capita che chi ha necessità di munirsi di una difesa processuale si chieda come fare quando non si hanno redditi sufficienti a reggerne il peso. Per questa ragione, i clienti chiedono al loro……続きを見る

As it was projected earlier in the year, while most markets were braced for a major global economic downturn, the food sector, including markets for bananas and tropical fruits, continued to display……続きを見る

Compte tenu de l'impact néfaste des systèmes alimentaires actuels sur l'environnement, et des préoccupations soulevées quant à la durabilité de ces derniers, il apparaît comme urgent de promouvoir d……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

Muchos de los programas de protección social, incluyendo los de transferencias monetarias, de obras públicas y de transferencias de activos, se dirigen a las mujeres como principales beneficiarias o……続きを見る

The purpose of making this compilation is to help students preparing for the CAPE Communication Studies Examination gain a broader perspective and deeper understanding. Mainly, it is set to help the……続きを見る

The Codex Alimentarius, "the food code", has a fundamental role in protecting consumers all around the world and ensuring fair practices in food trade. The Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Prod……続きを見る

An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in lig……続きを見る

Incest hurts children and confuses them. This general statement fits most if not all incest cases, but from there each family situation is different. This brief article shows that professionals and ……続きを見る

Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volum……続きを見る

...a periodical for the mindfully adventurous. ...a creative resource for the life-long learner. ...an encounter with new ways of thinking. Join an expedition through the archives of the human imagi……続きを見る

Mentre il mondo cade a pezzi non possiamo stare a guardare: non è un videogioco e comunque non possiamo perdere. Il bisogno di salute globale porta sempre più spesso ad assumere rimedi omeopatici an……続きを見る

Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in e……続きを見る

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. ……続きを見る

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

Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of un……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

Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2015 This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bi……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

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

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

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

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

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

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