In February 2006, at the Los Angeles Book Fair, Tom was asked to join four other distinguished booksellers in a panel discussion on the antiquarian book trade. Attached are his notes for the discussi

What is a personal future?As we interpret personal futures here, they are explorations of the potential futures of one individual, but only the futures that directly involve that individual. You will

Explores various details of the complexities of policing and military operations. In contrast, other entries are brief observations that we believe contribute to the discussion of policing and the mi

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This policy paper completes Notre Europe’s series of analyses of political and economic regionalisation trends, with previous papers on South-East Asia and South America. Focusing on Southern Africa,

RajDesai surveyed some theoretical foundations for understanding the political-economy of urban poverty before examining several pathologies of political life for the urban poor in the developing wor

Provides the speech made by Gordon Brown on the 13th July 2008 at the Union for the Mediterranean Summit emphasizing the fact that we must now leave behind the old wasteful, oil dependent ways of yes

Commodity prices have long played an important role in accounting for economic fluctuations. Forecasting changes in commodity prices is therefore an important task for forward-looking policymakers.

While scholarly publishing in Africa is still struggling to keep pace with the rest of the world,major progress has already been made.Many universities in Africa are seriously engaged in scholarly pu

This paper discusses the natural resource implications of the latest FAO food and agriculture baseline projections to 2050 (FAO, 2006a). These projections offer a comprehensive (food and feed demand,