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1 Yeung, Raymond W
Information theory and network coding / Raymond W Yeung.-
New York: Springer, 2008.
xx, 579p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780387792330.
003.54 YEU 138052
This book contains a thorough discussion of the classical
topics in information theory together with the first
comprehensive treatment of network coding.
** Information theory, Communications Engineering,
Networks, Data Structures, Cryptology and Information
Theory.
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DATA PROCESSING and COMPUTER SCIENCE |
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2 Yang, Laurence T (ed)
Handbook on mobile and ubiquitous computing : status and
perspective / Laurence T Yang, Evi Syukur and Seng W Loke
-- Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2013.
xxiii,691p.26cm.
ISBN : 9781439848111.
004 YAN 138050
This book illustrates the design, implementation, and
deployment of mobile and ubiquitous systems, particularly
on mobile and ubiquitous environments, concepts,
modeling, database components, and wireless
infrastructures. It discusses new trends towards
intelligent systems that aim to create software systems
and discusses sensory input and multimedia information.
** Mobile computing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc,
Ubiquitous computing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, PROGRAMS AND DATA |
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3 Russo, Marco
Microsoft SQL server 2012 analysis services : the BISM
tabular model / Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari and Chris
Webb.-- California: O-Reilly Media, 2012.
xxv, 625p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780735658189.
005.7565 RUS 138082
It creates Business Intelligence (BI) solutions with the
Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) Tabular model
- and discover a simpler method for analyzing business
data.
** SQL server , Client/server computing , Relational
databases , Database management , Business -- Data
processing
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SPECIAL COMPUTER METHODS |
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4 Rey, Tim
Applied data mining for forecasting using SAS / Tim Rey,
Arthur Kordon and Chip Wells.-- North Carolina: SAS
Institute, 2012.
x, 324p. 28cm.
ISBN : 9781607646624.
006.312 REY 138081
The book introduces and describes approaches for mining
large time series data sets. Written for forecasting
practitioners, engineers, statisticians, and economists,
the book details how to select useful candidate input
variables for time series regression models in
environments when the number of candidates is large, and
identifies the correlation structure between selected
candidate inputs and the forecast variable.It covers a
lot of ground from simple to quite sophisticated modeling
techniques without excessive mathematical detail.
** SAS (Computer file) , Data mining , Forecasting
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ETHICS |
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5 Roy, Kaushik
Hinduism and the ethics of warfare in South Asia : from
antiquity to the present / Kaushik Roy.-- New Delhi:
Cambridge University Press, 2013.
xix,288p.24cm.
ISBN : 9781107017368.
172.420954 ROY 138051
This book challenges the view, common among Western
scholars, that pre-colonial India lacked a tradition of
military philosophy. It traces the evolution of theories
of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization,
focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War)
and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy.
** Military art and science -- India -- Philosophy --
History, Military ethics -- India -- History, Hindu
ethics -- India -- History.
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OTHER RELIGIONS |
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6 Sun, Anna
Confucianism as a world religion : contested histories
and contemporary realities / Anna Sun.-- Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2013.
xix, 244p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780691155579.
299.512 SUN 138085
This book traces the birth and growth of the idea of
Confucianism as a world religion. The author shows how
that decisive moment continues to influence the
understanding of Confucianism in the contemporary world,
not only in the West but also in China, where the
politics of Confucianism has become important to the
present regime in a time of transition.
** Confucianism
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SOCIAL INTERACTION |
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7 Mbembe, Achille
On the postcolony / Achille Mbembe.-- Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2001.
274p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780520204355.
302.3096 MBE 138089
This book contests diehard Africanist and nativist
perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of
postcolonial theory.
** Power (Social sciences) -- Africa , Postcolonialism --
Africa , Subjectivity
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SOCIAL PROCESSES |
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8 D-Costa, Anthony P (ed)
The New economy in development : ICT challenges and
opportunities / Anthony P D-Costa.-- New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006.
xxiii, 235p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780230001466.
303.4833091724 DCO 138071
This book presents conceptual and empirical analyses of
the opportunities offered by information and
communications technologies (ICT). By focusing on the
interrelationships between ICT, services, globalization,
international agreements and broader development goals,
the volume offers a range of policy options for
harnessing ICT for development. Contributors include
scholars and policy makers from international
organizations, and the chapters include understudied
cases from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and
Asia.
** Information technology -- Developing countries,
Communication in economic development.
9 Waltz, Kenneth N
Man, the state, and war : a theoretical analysis /
Kenneth N Waltz.-- New York: Columbia University Press,
1954.
xvi, 263p. 20cm.
ISBN : 9780231125376.
303.66 WAL 138067
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, the
author examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout
the history of Western civilization - including St.
Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Spinoza - have offered to
explain the reasons for men and related prescriptions for
peace.
** International relations -- Philosophy, State, The,
War.
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SOCIAL GROUPS |
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10 Weinbaum, Alys Eve (ed)
The Modern girl around the world : consumption,
modernity, and globalization / Alys Eve Weinbaum and
others.-- Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
x, 435p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780822343059.
305.24220904 WEI 138090
During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to
Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the
Modern Girl made her flashy, fashionable appearance in
city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and
illustrated magazines. This work tracks the Modern Girl
as she emerged as a global phenomenon during the 1920s
and 1930s.
** Young women , Girls , Girls in popular culture
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CULTURE and INSTITUTIONS |
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11 Hall, Stuart (ed)
Representation / Stuart Hall, Jessica Evans and Sean
Nixon.--2nd ed-- New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013.
xxvi, 410p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9781849205634.
306 HAL 138087
This book critically analyzes institutional and media
texts and images. It addresses the emergence of new
technologies, media formats, politics and theories.
** Culture , Representation (Philosophy) , Social
perception
12 Daniel, Miller (ed)
Worlds apart : modernity through the prism of the local /
Miller Daniel.-- London: Routledge, 1995.
xii, 270p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780415107891.
306 MIL 138091
Worlds Apart maps out one of the new directions of
anthropology, that aimed at advances in technologies
which create an imagination of new global and local
forms. It also analyses studies of the consumption of
these forms and attempts to go beyond the assumptions
that consumption either localises or fails to effect
global forms and images.
** Ethnology -- Philosophy , Popular culture , Culture
13 Klinenberg, Eric
Going solo : the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal
of living alone / Eric Klinenberg.-- New York: Penguin
Books, 2013.
272p. 21cm.
ISBN : 9780143122777.
306.8150973 KLI 138092
The book explores the dramatic rise of solo living and
examines the seismic impact it-s having on our culture,
business, and politics.
** Living alone -- United States , Single people --
United States , Single people -- United States --
Psychology
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SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENTS and STATES |
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14 Bates, Robert H
When things fell apart : state failure in late-century
Africa / Robert H Bates.-- Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
xiv, 191p. 21cm.
ISBN : 9780521715256.
321.09 BAT 138073
The author addresses the origins of state failure in late
twentieth-century Africa.
** Failed states -- Africa -- History -- 20th century ,
Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
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15 Keohane, Robert O (ed)
Neorealism and its critics / Robert O Keohane.-- New York
: Columbia University Press, 1986.
x, 378p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780231063494.
327.01 KEO 138069
Neorealism is the school of international relations that
emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in
world affairs. This volume features essays by both its
most prominent exponents and its principal critics.
** International relations, World politics -- 1945-1989.
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LABOR ECONOMICS |
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16 Humphries, Jane
Childhood and child labour in the British industrial
revolution / Jane Humphries.-- Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
xiii, 439p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780521248969.
331.31094109034 HUM 138080
This is a unique account of working-class childhood
during the British industrial revolution through the
autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
** Child labor -- Great Britain -- History. Children --
Great Britain -- History. Industrial revolution -- Great
Britain.
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FINANCIAL ECONOMICS |
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17 Pasiouras, Fotios (ed)
Efficiency and productivity growth : modelling in the
financial services industry / Fotios Pasiouras.-- West
Sussex: Wiley, 2013.
xviii, 268p. 26cm.
ISBN : 9781119967521.
332.1015195 PAS 138048
Exploring contemporary research issues in the area of
efficiency and productivity measurement in the financial
sector, this book evaluates the most suitable approaches
to selecting inputs and outputs, as well as the most
efficient modeling techniques.
** Banks and banking -- Econometric models, Financial
services industry -- Econometric models.
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PRODUCTION |
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18 Horn, Denise M
Democratic governance and social entrepreneurship : civic
participation and the future of democracy / Denise M Horn
-- London: Routledge, 2013.
xxi, 146p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780415668934.
338.04 HOR 138060
This book explores the connection between strong
democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the
concept of -social entrepreneurship- in Thailand and
Southern India. This book addresses the intersection
between emerging approaches to development, namely
microfinance, microenterprise, and social
entrepreneurship, and the ability of societies to
generate their own public goods without state
assistance.The author examines the challenges of
democratic governance and generation of public goods
where civil society and democracy, as development
strategies, have become less meaningful to citizens
across the developing world than micro-development.
** Microfinance --Thailand, Northern , Microfinance --
India --Andhra Pradesh , Political participation --
Thailand, Northern , Political participation --India --
Andhra Pradesh , Social entrepreneurship --Thailand,
Northern , Social entrepreneurship --India --Andhra
Pradesh
19 Owen, Richard (ed)
Responsible innovation : managing the responsible
emergence of science and innovation in society / Richard
Owen, John Bessant and Maggy Heintz.-- West Sussex: Wiley
, 2013.
xxiv, 281p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9781119966357.
338.064 OWE 138059
This book defines the idea of responsible innovation,
addressing the issues, challenges, and solutions in a
constructive way.
** Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects ,
New products -- Environmental aspects , Research,
Industrial -- Moral and ethical aspects
20 Li, Peter Ping (ed)
Disruptive innovation in Chinese and Indian businesses :
the strategic implications for local entrepreneurs and
global incumbents / Peter Ping Li.-- London: Routledge,
2013.
xxix, 229p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780415680813.
338.0640951 LIP 138061
This book sheds new light on disruptive innovations both
from and for the bottom of the pyramid in China and
India, from the point of view of local entrepreneurs and
international firms seeking to operate their businesses
there. It covers both the theoretical and practical
implications of disruptive innovation using conceptual
frameworks alongside detailed case studies, whilst also
providing a comparison of conditions and strategic
options in India and China.
** Diffusion of innovations -- China , Diffusion of
innovations -- India , Technological innovations -- China
21 Parayil, Govindan (ed)
The New Asian innovation dynamics : China and India in
perspective / Govindan Parayil and Anthony P D-Costa.--
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
xi, 297p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780230209459.
338.0640951 PAR 138070
In this book, the authors show that strategic choices
made by multinational firms, local businesses and
governments are influencing the emerging innovation
dynamics and explores the key challenges faced by China
and India in their quest for innovation upgrading. The
volume focuses on how shifting competitiveness not only
increases economic growth, but also imposes costs on
industries and social groups that are either losing out
or being excluded from this emerging economic dynamics
for various reasons.
** Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- China
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- India.
22 Bates, Robert H
Markets and states in tropical Africa : the political
basis of agricultural policies / Robert H Bates.--
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
xvii, 178p. 21cm.
ISBN : 9780520244931.
338.1867 BAT 138068
Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their
incomes from farming, but because African governments
follow policies that are adverse to most farmers-
interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to
feed their populations. This book analyzes these and
other paradoxical features of development in modern
Africa and explores how governments have intervened and
diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of
society.
** Agriculture and state -- Africa, Sub-Saharan,
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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SCIENCE |
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23 Chang, Mark
Paradoxes in scientific inference / Mark Chang.-- Boca
Raton: CRC Press, 2013.
xviii, 273p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9781466509863.
501 CHA 138057
Paradoxes in Scientific Inference analyzes paradoxes from
many different perspectives: statistics, mathematics,
philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, and more.
The book elaborates on findings and reaches new and
exciting conclusions.
** Science -- methods , Logic , Science -- Methodology ,
Inference , Paradoxes
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PROBABILITIES and APPLIED MATHEMATICS |
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24 Matioff, Norman
The Art of R programming : a tour of statistical software
design / Norman Matioff.-- San Francisco: No Starch Press
, 2011.
xxiii, 373p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9781593273842.
519.502855133 MAT 138083
The author takes readers on a guided tour of this
powerful language, from basic object types and data
structures to graphing, parallel processing, and much
more. Along the way, readers learn about topics including
functional and object-oriented programming, low-level
code optimization, and interfacing R with C++ and Python.
** Statistics -- Data processing. R (Computer program
language) R (Computer language)
25 Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia
Multilevel and longitudinal modeling using strata :
categorical responses, counts, and survival / Sophia Rabe
Hesketh and Anders Skrondal.--3rd ed-- Texas: Stata Press
Publication, 2012.
xxiii, 974p. 23cm.
V2 : Categorical responses, counts, and survival.
ISBN : 9781597181044.
519.54 RAB 138055,V2
This book discusses regression modeling of clustered or
hierarchical data, such as data on students nested in
schools, patients nested in hospitals, or employees
nested in firms. Longitudinal data are also clustered
with, for instance, repeated measurements on patients or
several panel waves per survey respondent. Multilevel and
longitudinal modeling can exploit the richness of such
data and can disentangle processes operating at different
levels.
** Stata, Latent variables, Latent structure analysis.
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26 Antoniou, Josephina
Game theory in communication networks : cooperative
resolution of interactive networking scenarios /
Josephina Antoniou and Andreas Pitsillides.-- Boca Raton:
CRC Press, 2013.
ix,146p.26cm.
ISBN : 9781439848081.
621.382015193 ANT 138049
Focusing on heterogeneous networks, this book addresses
important resource management and security issues found
in networks and uses theoretical tools to model them.
Although it explores network design and management from
the theoretical perspective of game theory and graph
theory, the text also provides solutions for each
mechanism that needs improvement by presenting a step-by-
step approach.
** Telecommunication systems -- Computer simulation,
Telecommunication systems -- Mathematical models,
Internetworking (Telecommunication) -- Computer
simulation.
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MANAGEMENT and AUXILIARY SERVICES |
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27 Hamermesh, Daniel S
Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful /
Daniel S Hamermesh.-- Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2011.
xii, 216p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780691140469.
650.1 HAM 138084
Beauty Pays demonstrates how society favors the beautiful
and how better-looking people experience startling but
undeniable benefits in all aspects of life.It shows that
the attractive are more likely to be employed, work more
productively and profitably, receive more substantial
pay, obtain loan approvals, negotiate loans with better
terms, and have more handsome and highly educated
spouses. The author explains why this happens and what it
means for the beautiful--and the not-so-beautiful--among
us.
** Success in business , Success , Beauty, Personal ,
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT |
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28 Pearson, Gordon
The Rise and fall of management : a brief history of
practice, theory and context / Gordon Pearson.-- England:
Gower, 2012.
ix, 286p. 25cm.
ISBN : 9788186268414.
658.009 PEA 138088
The author reviews how management became a practice and
body of understanding, the development of its crucial
role in economic progress, and then how its corruption
came about as a result of malign theory, leading to the
dominance of the bonus payment culture and short term
deal making that plague us today. Understanding
management-s past.
** Management -- History , Industrial management --
History , Industrialization -- History
29 Giannoccaro, Ilaria (ed)
Behavioral issues in operations management : new trends
in design, management, and methodologies / Ilaria
Giannoccaro.-- London: Springer, 2013.
xii, 241p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9781447148777.
658.4034 GIA 138095
Behavioral Issues in Operations Management explains and
examines up-to-date research in this field, which works
to analyze the impact of human behavior on the management
of complex operating systems.
** Operations research -- Psychological aspects ,
Organizational behavior , Management science
30 Yesudian, Suseela (ed)
Innovation in India : the future of offshoring / Suseela
Yesudian.-- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
xi,130p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780230300675.
658.40580954 YES 138086
This book explores whether and how the services off-
shoring sector in India is making the transition towards
greater value added and innovative work.
** Offshore outsourcing -- India -- Case studies
31 Ishikawa, Akira (ed)
An Introduction to knowledge information strategy : from
business intelligence to knowledge sciences / Akira
Ishikawa and Juro Nakagawa.-- New Jersey: Cambridge
University Press, 2013.
xii, 221p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9789814324427.
658.47 ISH 138053
This book discusses the essence, concepts, techniques,
and applications of business intelligence. It also
explores different aspects of crisis management,
knowledge management and knowledge sciences, the
applications of business intelligence in contingencies
and crises, environmental issues and group intelligence.
** Business intelligence, Knowledge management, Crisis
management.
32 Trudell, Bill
Relentless improvement : true stories of lean
transformations / Bill Trudell.-- Boca Raton: CRC Press,
2013.
xx, 217p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9781466554306.
658.5 TRU 138062
Relentless Improvement: True Stories of Lean
Transformations walks readers through vivid shop floor
experiences to convey a genuine feel for the environments
in which Lean Six Sigma transformations occur. Recounting
numerous Lean Six Sigma transformations, it illustrates
the spectrum of successful operational tactics.
** Lean manufacturing , Manufacturing processes ,
Production management , Organizational change ,
Industrial efficiency
33 Choi, Tsan-Ming (ed)
Handbook of newsvendor problems : models, extensions and
applications / Tsan-Ming Choi.-- New York: Springer, 2012
xi, 384p. 24cm.
(International series in operations research and management
science , 176).
ISBN : 9781461435990.
658.787015118 CHO 138094
The -newsvendor problem- is a classic teaser in
stochastic inventory control, widely used to analyze
supply chains in seasonal product industries. It presents
basic models and numerous practical applications.
** Inventory control -- Mathematical models
34 Bennett, Roger (ed)
New horizons in arts, heritage, nonprofit and social
marketing / Roger Bennett, Finola Kerrigan and Daragh
O-Reilly.-- London: Routledge, 2012.
x, 184p. 25cm.
ISBN : 9780415628891.
658.8 BEN 138056
This book presents a collection of stimulating articles
that report some of the freshest and most innovative
research and thinking in the authors- specialist domains.
Collectively the chapters offer a balance of empirical
and conceptual research in arts, heritage, non-profit and
social marketing. They explore new ideas, challenge pre-
existing orthodoxies, develop knowledge, and demonstrate
the epistemological importance of current research in
these critical areas.
** Marketing.
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AMERICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH |
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35 Weisberger, Lauren
Revenge wears prada : the devil returns / Lauren
Weisberger.-- New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013.
381p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9781439136638.
813 WEI 138093
A sequel to "The Devil Wears Prada" finds Andy Sachs and
her partner, Emily, blossoming throughout eight years at
the head of a wildly successful high fashion bridal
magazine only to be haunted by memories of their former
boss on the eve of Andy-s wedding.
** Periodicals -- Publishing -- Fiction , New York (N.Y.)
-- Fiction , Fashion editors -- Fiction
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HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA |
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36 Foote, Nicola (ed)
The Caribbean history reader / Nicola Foote.-- New York:
Routledge, 2013.
x, 433p. 25cm.
ISBN : 9780415800235.
972.9 FOO 138063
The Caribbean History Reader provides a thorough and up-
to date overview of Caribbean history from the pre-
Columbian era to the present. It brings together a range
of classic and innovative articles and primary sources,
to create an introduction to Caribbean political,
economic, social and cultural currents, providing an
important first reference point to scholars and students
alike.
** Caribbean Area -- History , Caribbean Area -- Economic
conditions , Caribbean Area -- Social conditions ,
Caribbean Area -- Civilization , Caribbean Area --
Politics and government
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