Contourites are sediments deposited or substantially reworked by bottom currents. The study of contourites is crucial for several fields of fundamental & applied research: palaeoclimatology & paleoceanography. This book addresses different aspects of the knowledge in the field of contourites. ...

Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' & 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices & formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'. ...

Written by a pioneer in the quantitative & macroeconomic analysis of economic history, this book combines qualitative histories with quantitative data. It also seeks a new understanding of the forces of economic growth & development by taking the ultimate long view
- the whole of the last millennium
- & looking to the future.

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When a Hollywood film crew travel to shoot on an isolated desert location they are attacked by CIA-backed mercenaries. At first the film people fight back using their special effects equipment, but as the carnage mounts they sustain heavy losses, & soon the director's daughter is the only one still alive. She then teams up with one of the embittered mercenaries to better her chances of surviving. ...

Contains two essays that recollect the author's time at the London School of Economics in the 1930s, followed by his contribution to an early debate about the paradox of saving. This title reprints the debates between the author & one of the world's leading economists, John Maynard Keynes in Economics in the early 1930s. ...

Follows a young man's journey into a new "voyeur underground", where profit-hungry youths prowl streets, secretly filming radical events with mobile devices to satisfy society's demand for sensational on-the-go content. This work also weaves in elements of wireless communication
- including text messaging, online blogging, & avatars & alerts.
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