'Michael Watts contributed a highly successful doodle analysis column to Bella. Many readers and members of staff who had doodles interpreted were amazed by his uncanny accuracy. Now, with this extremely well-written book, you will be able to instantly interpret any doodle you are likely to come across. We recommend it to everybody and know that you will find it enjoyable, invaluable and easy to use.' - BellaWhen faced with difficult dilemmas or decisions, doodling prevents the min...

'Best single source on Kierkegaard I've seen. Excellent short biography of his life and family. Fantastic explanation of how to approach Kierkegaard's ideas… I did spend a lot of time on the Danish philosopher's work as a graduate student (particularly Fear and Trembling) and I do wish that I had had this at the time' (Austin Cline, online review at atheism.about.com; full review at http://atheism.about.com/od/bookreviews/fr/Kierkegaard.htm)'A reader's delight … his presentation of ...

(The following text should feature on the back cover of the paperback version of this book)Dieses Buch handelt von sieben 'innovativ, auf dem neuesten Stand' Therapien, die so ungewöhnlich sind, dass viele Leser sie unglaublich finden werden, aber alle sind authentisch, und jede von ihnen hat eine bescheidene, aber doch bedeutende Zahl von Anhängern. Abhängig von den klinischen Studien ist es sehr gut möglich, dass einige dieser in diesem Buch erwähnten Therapien nützliche und revo...

This report seeks to apply a social contract framing to development policy and use it to analyze the nature of social contracts in Africa. The work creates a practical framework to allow the wide applicability of a social contract lens to relevant development challenges in specific sectors, countries or regions in the continent.

In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the streets, others decided simply to turn away, seeking to build another world together, outside the state and the market. West of Eden charts the remarkable flowering of communalism in the 1960s and ’70s, fueled by a radical rejection of the Cold War corporate deal, utopian visions of a peaceful green planet,...

Lovers Own the Silence is a haunting, slow-burn novel about secrets that refuse to stay buried, the seductive pull of power, and the quiet resilience of a woman on the edge of reinvention.When a wealthy executive dies suddenly, single mother Grace Duffy finds herself drawn back into the shadows of her past-into a world of whispered betrayals, old debts, and dangerous alliances. As she tries to protect the life she's built for herself and her son, Grace is forced to con...

This comprehensive volume advances heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx’s 200th birth anniversary. While Marxists have long criticized ‘populists’ for ignoring capitalism and class, populists have charged Marxists with historical determinism. This ongoing debate has now reached something of an impasse, in part because new empirical work addressing the complex contemporary patterns and conjunctures of global agrarian capitalism offers exciting new horizons, ...

The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies.This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introduc...

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies.Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the c...

"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."—Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of ShahsThe scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typ...

Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing "war on terror" amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears of overpopulation.Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties addres...

Something strange is going on in the city of Central, and nobody is even aware of what is lurking within the late night hours. Behold a tale of faith and belief has come to end the war between wolves, vampires, and the human race that has been forged for year. This is a series of stories that note the becoming of Central.