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The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones Concentrating Economic Development

The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones Concentrating Economic Development

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become a popular development policy throughout the world over the last half a century. These zones form designated areas where governments offer businesses lower taxes tariffs and often lighter regulations. Generally SEZs aim to attract investments and raise a country’s export and employment rates but although success stories are often cited there are numerous failed projects that have instead become burdens for their host countries. This book examines SEZs from a political economy perspective both to dissect the incentives of governments zone developers and exporters and to uncover both the hidden costs and untapped potential of zone policies. Costs include misallocated resources the encouragement of rent-seeking and distraction of policy-makers from more effective reforms. However the zones also have several unappreciated benefits. They can change the politics of a country by generating a transition from a system of rent-seeking to one of liberalized open markets. In revealing the hidden promise of SEZs this book shows how the SEZ model of development can succeed in the future. Applying frameworks from various schools of political economy this volume places SEZs in the context of their mixed past and promising future. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in international economics development economics and political economy including practitioners and consultants of SEZ policies. | The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones Concentrating Economic Development

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Intergenerational Contact Zones Place-based Strategies for Promoting Social Inclusion and Belonging

Intergenerational Contact Zones Place-based Strategies for Promoting Social Inclusion and Belonging

In Intergenerational Contact Zones Kaplan Thang Sánchez and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking planning and designing intergenerationally enriched environments. Filled with vivid examples of how ICZs breathe new life into communities and social practices this important volume focuses on practical descriptions of ways in which practitioners and researchers could translate and infuse the notion of ICZ into their work. The ICZ concept embraces generation and regeneration of community life parks and recreational locations educational environments residential settings and family life and national and international contexts for social development. With its focus on creating effective and meaningful intergenerational settings it offers a rich how-to toolkit to help professionals and user groups as they begin to consider ways to develop activate and nurture intergenerational spaces. Intergenerational Contact Zones will be essential reading for academics and researchers interested in human development aging and society as well as practitioners educators and policy makers interested in intergenerational gathering places from an international perspective. | Intergenerational Contact Zones Place-based Strategies for Promoting Social Inclusion and Belonging

GBP 42.99
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The Caribbean Blue Economy

The Caribbean Blue Economy

The Blue Economy is emerging on the global scene as a powerful and persuasive new concept for sustainable development based on economic activities associated with the ocean. Several regions globally have adopted this concept at national and regional levels including the Caribbean. Given the complex multisectoral and multilevel nature of the Blue Economy it is clear that different approaches will be needed for different regions. Hence this volume explores the opportunities threats and risks involved in operationalising the Blue Economy in the Wider Caribbean Region defined as northern Brazil to the USA and all mainland and island countries and territories in-between. The first part of the book looks at where the region stands in the global picture regarding adoption of the Blue Economy and what is planned. The second set of chapters examines key crosscutting issues such as ecosystem services climate change and governance at national and regional levels that could make or break the Blue Economy initiative. The book then goes on to explore the main sectoral activities that will constitute the Blue Economies in the region: fisheries tourism shipping and transport renewable energy oil and gas seabed mining and waste management are all considered. The book ends with a synthesis of the political and technical requirements to overcome threats and take advantage of opportunities in the Blue Economy. | The Caribbean Blue Economy

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Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War. It reveals that while the food practices of the population were modified by rationing and food scarcity social class and personal circumstances were key dimensions of the wartime food experience that demand to be taken into account in the historical narrative of the Home Front. | Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

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The Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa Working for a Sustainable Future

The Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa Working for a Sustainable Future

The blue economy comprising coastal and marine resources offers vast benefits for sub-Saharan Africa: of the 53 countries and territories in the region 32 are coastal states; there are 13 million sq km of maritime zones; more than 90% of the region’s exports and imports come by sea; and the African Union hails the blue economy as the ‘new frontier of African renaissance’. Despite their importance the region’s coastal and marine resources have been neither fully appreciated nor fully utilized. They are only now being recognized as being key to Africa’s potential prosperity. As the region grows it has in general not taken adequate safeguards to protect these valuable resources. That is partly because some of the problems (pollution for example) are regional and know no borders. All too often short-term gains are made at the expense of the long term (overfishing for example). This book provides for the first time a study of the constraints and opportunities the blue economy offers for sub-Saharan Africa. It includes an introduction and overview; sectoral analyses (including tourism fisheries mineral resources culture shipping and maritime safety); country case studies; and analyses of regional and international efforts towards better coastal zone and marine management. | The Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa Working for a Sustainable Future

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The Southern Bantu Languages Handbook of African Languages

The Southern Bantu Languages Handbook of African Languages

For the purposes of this volume originally published in 1954 two southern zones of Bantu have been included - south of the Zambesi and east of the Kalahari. The book discusses the phonetic and morphological characteristics of these 2 zones and a classification of the groups clusters and dialects is provided. For comparative purposes detailed information on some striking dialectical forms is given in the appendices. | The Southern Bantu Languages Handbook of African Languages

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An Introduction to the Blue Humanities

An Introduction to the Blue Humanities

An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water utilizing literary cultural historical and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprised of multinational texts and materials each chapter will provide readers with a range of primary and secondary sources offering a fresh look at the major oceanic regions saltwater and freshwater geographies and the physical properties of water that characterize the Blue Humanities. Each chapter engages with carefully chosen primary texts including frequently taught works such as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner ” Homer’s Odyssey and Luis Vaz de Camões’s Lusíads to provide the perfect pedagogy for students to develop an understanding of the Blue Humanities chapter by chapter. Readers will gain insight into new trends in intellectual culture and the enduring history of humans thinking with and about water ranging across the many coastlines of the World Ocean to Pacific clouds Mediterranean lakes Caribbean swamps Arctic glaciers Southern Ocean rainstorms Atlantic groundwater and Indian Ocean rivers. Providing new avenues for future thinking and investigation of the Blue Humanities this volume will be ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses engaging with the environmental humanities and oceanic literature.

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Housing Land and Property Rights Residential Justice Conflict Zones and Climate Change

Housing Land and Property Rights Residential Justice Conflict Zones and Climate Change

This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing land and property (HLP) rights. HLP rights have undergone a major transformation in recent decades but much remains to be done to bring their promise to the billions of people who have yet to access them. This work presents several innovative ways by which the entire field of HLP rights can be strengthened in support of those to whom they are promised by human rights laws. It outlines the author’s suggestions for creating a new World Restitution Agency expanding our understanding of the term ‘internationally wrongful act’ to HLP crimes the links between mine action and HLP rights in post-conflict societies and the need to include HLP issues in peace agreements. The book concludes with several chapters that outline suggestions for better addressing climate displacement including the need for national climate land banks the role of the courts and how to redistribute global wealth towards rehousing the millions set to be displaced from their homes and lands due to the effects of climate change. The volume will be essential reading for academics researchers and policymakers working in the areas of international human rights law housing land and property issues humanitarian issues and climate change. | Housing Land and Property Rights Residential Justice Conflict Zones and Climate Change

GBP 130.00
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Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s. As modern-day sleeper services are being resurrected across European rail networks this book looks at the complex organisation that was required to run their forbears with sleeping cars with clean bedding and conductors and dining cars with food and drink were in the right place at the right time across many different nations systems and time-zones. | Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

GBP 90.00
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Rural Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine Distribution and Population Density During the Late Ottoman and Early Mandate

Rural Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine Distribution and Population Density During the Late Ottoman and Early Mandate

This volume explores the distribution of the rural population in Palestine from the late Ottoman period (1870-1917) to the British Mandate period (1917-1948). The book focuses on demography specifically migrations population size density growth and the pattern of distribution in rural Palestine before the inception of Jewish settlement (1882). Grossman traces little-known Muslim ethnic groups who settled in Palestine's rural areas primarily Egyptians but also Algerians Bosnians and Circassians. The author argues that the Arab population in the zones occupied by Jews after 1882 was about one-third that of the Arab core areas; in the period studied the decline in per-capita rural Arab farmland was mainly due to overall population growth not displacement of Arabs; economic development suffered largely because of violent disturbances and natural disasters; the pattern of growth of Egyptian and other Muslim groups was similar to that of the Jews. The main conclusions of this study note that the size of the rural Arab population in the zones occupied by Jews after 1882 was about one-tenth of that which occupied the Arab core zones; most Egyptian settlement areas coincided with those of the Jewish zones; between 1870 and 1945 the decline of Arab farmland was mainly due to Arab population growth rather than Jewish land acquisitions; and most migrants (Jewish and Muslim) settlement zones were leftovers characterized by some form of resource disability. | Rural Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine Distribution and Population Density During the Late Ottoman and Early Mandate

GBP 42.99
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All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

All for Naught tells the story of Richard Melmont a billionaire many times over. His wife Maria daughter Barbara and son Daniel are appalled by his cutthroat methods and even more appalled by the weapons system he is developing. Is he deliberately deceiving government officials bankers and the general public or is he deceiving himself? In The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue an experienced White House correspondent is trying to sort through contradictory insider accounts to get a true picture of an elusive president. | All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

GBP 84.99
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Attachment Relationships and Food From Cradle to Kitchen

Attachment Relationships and Food From Cradle to Kitchen

Using attachment theory as a lens for understanding the role of food in our everyday lives this book explores relationships with other people with ourselves and between client and therapist through our connection with food. The aim of this book is twofold: to examine the nature of attachment through narratives of feeding and to enrich psychotherapy practice by encouraging exploration of clients’ food-related memories and associations. Bringing together contributions from an experienced group of psychotherapists the chapters examine how our connections with food shape our patterns of attachment and defence how this influences appetite self-feeding (or self-starving) and how we may then feed others. They consider a spectrum from a secure attachment to food through to avoidant preoccupied and disorganised including discussion of eating disorders. Enriched throughout with diverse clinical case studies this edited collection illuminates how relationships to food can be a rich source of insight and understanding for psychotherapists psychoanalysts and other counselling therapists working today. | Attachment Relationships and Food From Cradle to Kitchen

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The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting

The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting

The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting provides a comprehensive survey of the field of interpreting for a global readership. The handbook includes an introduction and twenty-seven chapters by contributors who are experts involved in the interpreting profession and leading academics in their area. The four sections cover: The history and evolution of interpreting; The core areas of interpreting studies from conference interpreting to transcription and interpreting in conflict zones to voiceover; Current issues and debates from ethics and the role of the interpreter to the impact of globalization; A look to the future. Suggestions for further reading are provided with every chapter. The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting is an essential purchase for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of interpreting studies. Professionals working in interpreting or those looking to work in the field will also find this book invaluable.

GBP 46.99
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The Modern Cook A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in All Its Branches

The Modern Cook A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in All Its Branches

Pupil of the great Careme Chief Cook to Queen Victoria Charles Elme Francatelli here presents his most celebrated recipes. Crayfish ragout soles a la marechale roast turkey artichokes with butter sauce summer sandwiches and countless pies and cakes are among the hundreds of recipes included. Complete dinner menus allow cooks to plan exquisite meals with ease while detailed instructions (penned in 1846) need only slight adaptation to the modem kitchen. | The Modern Cook A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in All Its Branches

GBP 42.99
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Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

Extensively revised and updated Planning in the USA fifth edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use urban planning and environmental protection policies this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified defined and approached. The new edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. New material includes discussions of • education and equity in planning; • the City Beautiful Movement; • Daniel Burnham’s plan for Chicago; • segregation; • Knick v. Township of Scott; • reforming single-family zoning and regulatory challenges in zoning and land use; • Daniel Parolek’s ‘Missing Middle Housing’; • climate change mitigation adaptation and resiliency; • the drinking water crisis in Flint Michigan; • sharing programs for cars bicycles and scooters; • hybrid electric and autonomous vehicles; • Vision Zero; • COVID-19 relief for housing; • Innovation Districts Promise Zones and Opportunity Zones; • the sharing gig and creative economies; • scenic views and vistas monuments statues and remembering the past; and • healthy cities Health Impact Assessment and active living. This detailed account of urbanization in the United States reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process the fallibility of experts and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Planning in the USA fifth edition is an essential book for students of urban planning urban politics environmental geography and environment politics. It will be a valuable resource for planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems. | Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

GBP 56.99
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Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea Warships States and the Use of Force

Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea Warships States and the Use of Force

There has been a recent increase in clashes between warships asserting rights to navigate and states asserting sovereignty over coastal waters. This book argues for a set of rules which respect the rights of coastal states to protect their sovereignty and of warships to navigate lawfully whilst also outlining the limits of each. The book addresses the issue of the clash between warships and states by considering the general principles applying to use of force in the law of the sea and the law of national self-defence. It focuses on the right of coastal states to use force to prevent passage of warships which threaten their sovereignty with particular reference to the specific maritime zones as well as by warships to ensure passage or to defend themselves. The book also assesses the extent to which the law of armed conflict may be applicable to these issues. The conclusion draws together a set of rules which take account of both contemporary and historical events and seeks to balance the competing interests at stake. Providing a concise overview of the enduring issue of freedom of navigation this book will appeal to anyone studying international law the law of the sea security studies and international relations. It will also be of interest to naval coast guard and military officers as well as government legal advisors. | Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea Warships States and the Use of Force

GBP 16.99
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Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

Sharing your kitchen concoctions on your personal food blog has never been as popular as it is right now but if you've ever had trouble getting your tasty temptations to look like pretty plates on camera you know how difficult it can be to take amazing pictures of food. Matt Armendariz of Mattbites food blog fame shares his experiences and best practices for creating wonderful food photos in Focus On Food Photography for Bloggers. Written specifically for you the blogger Matt discusses the ins and outs of equipment lighting composition propping sparking your inspiration and getting creative all with what you have on hand at home! Learn how to avoid common pitfalls with foods that are notoriously camera shy how to successfully snap your dinner at a restaurant as well as on your kitchen table and how to style your food with what you have in your cupboards. He also includes advice on post-processing posting and protecting your prized images. As well as on his blog Matt's photography has been featured in The Skinny Bitch Cookbook on Martha Stewart Paula Deen's Best Dishes and Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen along with numerous food magazines and newspapers. Let this seasoned blogger give your food photography the boost it needs to really make your readers salivate! | Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

GBP 145.00
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Childhood and the Production of Security

Childhood and the Production of Security

Responding to security scholars’ puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which they not only are already present in security discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the political projects they make possible. From zones of conflict to everyday life contexts in the (post)industrial Global North dominant ideas about childhood work to regulate the constitution of political subjects whilst variously enabling and foreclosing a wide range of political possibilities. Whether on the battlefields of Syria in the halls of the UN or the conceptual musings of disciplinary Security Studies claims about or ostensibly on behalf of children are ubiquitous. Recognizing children as engaged political subjects however challenges us to bring a sustained critical gaze to the discursive and semiotic deployments of children and childhood in projects not of their making as well as to the ways in which power circulates through and around them. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies on Security. | Childhood and the Production of Security

GBP 27.99
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Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

This book presents state-of-the-art perspectives on the Blue Economy. It applies important geographical and sustainability transitions perspectives and underscores how Blue Economy dynamics are situated in regional contexts and shaped by the people who live there. The book highlights the Blue Economy concept as a potential driver of regionally sensitive ecologically embedded and community-focused sustainability. The scope for Blue Economy to form a core cog in our low-carbon future is obvious from the potential for renewable energy production and coastal resilience building to possibilities for sustainable food production and the delivery of economic opportunities for peripheral communities. However fundamental questions remain on how to meaningfully deliver these promises such as how to avoid embedding a model of damaging extractivism as per the terrestrial economy and how to deliver on the key social sustainability principles of human well-being equity and justice when planning and developing blue economies. As the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development opens this book provides a timely reminder of the richness diversity and potential of coastal and marine spaces. It advances geographical and transdisciplinary understandings of the Blue Economy and sets a baseline for continued scholarly engagement with the Blue Economy from a variety of perspectives. This timely contribution will be of interest to policy makers academics industry leaders decision makers and stakeholders working in or connected to the Blue Economy Sphere and working in the fields of Economic Geography Regional Development Public Policy and Planning Environmental Studies and Coastal Zone Management. | Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

GBP 34.99
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Entangled Heritages Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

Entangled Heritages Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

Relying on the concept of a shared history this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures new identities hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas concepts and practices as well as on the creation of contact zones where the meaning of heritage is negotiated and contested. Exploring the relevance of the politics of heritage and the uses of memory in the consolidation of these nation states as well as in the current disputes over resistances hidden memories undermined pasts or the politics of nostalgia this book seeks to seize the local/global dimensions around heritage. | Entangled Heritages Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

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Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s. Written in two parts Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artists like Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel used it to sample the sounds of everyday life. It also focuses on E-mu Systems and the use of its keyboards and drum machines in hip-hop. The second part follows users across a range of musical worlds including US/UK garage indie folk music and electronic music made from the sounds of sewers war zones and crematoriums. Using material from interviews and concepts from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) Digital Sampling provides a new and alternative approach to the study of sampling and is crucial reading for undergraduates postgraduates and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including music technology media communication and cultural studies. | Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

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