The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. In The Author, a former minister in the Qatari government, analyses the domestically important areas of demography, security,…
One hundred years after their first appearance in Leon Trotsky's Results and Prospects, this book critically reevaluates two key Marxist theories: uneven and combined development, and permanent revolution. It brings together a formidable array of Marxist intellectuals from across the world including Daniel Bensaid, Michael Lowy, Hillel Ticktin and Patrick Bond. Marx saw societies progressing…
Zhu Rongji, the Premier of China from 1998 to 2003, the unswerving economic reformer who helped to tame rampant inflation and put China firmly on the path to international economic integration, became a respected and popular figure among world business leaders, heads of state, diplomats, and particularly among progressive reformers within China. Zhu Rongji Meets the Press --a collection of the …
This book contains: 1. Temperature resistant organic coatings-chemistry and application 2. The development and application of low 3. Polymeric non-aqueous dispersions, their use as crack modifiers in autooxidising alkyd coatings 4. Synthesis and use of macromonomers from group transfer polymerization 5. Photoinitiations of polymerization: Industrial application and new frontiers Etc.
This Science Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Review, prepared at the request of the Government of Mauritania, provides an outline and assessment of the country’s current science, technology and innovation (STI) capabilities, their STI policies and the effectiveness of their national systems of innovation (NSIs) and knowledge systems in improving the productivity of enterprises and nat…
In this second volume, subtitled technological challenges for social change, issues that are of particular concern to society and in which science and technology will be increasingly important are examined. The challenge presented here is for the scientific community to take an active part in choosing our future, working in conjunction with political leaders and with an informed public.
Why would a ninety-year-old man choose to defy his most trusted physician? Because in an act of splendid generosity Sir Richard Branson offered him the chance to fly into space, to share that transcendental feeling known only to astronauts - that out home is the Earth itself, not the house or the street or the nation where we live - which for a scientist who has spent a lifetime studying the wa…
This textbook, written for the first-year college non- science major, presents basic concepts in the five major areas of physical science: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and meteorology. We make these concepts easily accessible to students by developing them in a logical rather than a chronological fashion and by discussing them in the context of everyday experience. Chapter 1 begins w…
This volume collects a number of essays and articles from about twenty experts in various fields connected to marine environmental issues. These essays were first presented at the XXVIII Pacem in Maribus Conference held in December 2000, at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany. The purpose of the Conference was to enhance awareness of the European public, gov…
This collection of essays traces the development of a range of social ideas, then addresses questions about society and the international order. With its balanced inclusion of historical and contemporary selections, Social Ideals and Policies is the most comprehensive anthology available in social and political philosophy