This book deals with the dramatic changes in diet and lifestyle that are occurring in the developing world as a result of globalization, and their impact on human healt. The Editors have assembled a leading group of scientists in teh fields of economics, population sciences, international health, medicine, nutrition and food sciences, to address each of the key issues related to the changes in demographic trends, food production and marketing, and disease patterns in the developing world.
Intended to challenge new students and provide a solid foundation for
more advanced students, this set offers information in an encyclopedic
format on the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers, and issues
relating to topics in the earth sciences. It is the latest in a series
that includes World of Genetics [RBB Je 1 & 15 03] and World of Chemistry
(Gale, 2000). Contributors and their affiliations are listed at the
beginning of volume 1. The set includes approximately 650 entries, from
Abyssal plains to Zeolite. Students will appreciate the
clearly written articles as well as the fact that special attention is
placed on current ethical, legal, and social issues pertaining to the
earth sciences, such as pollution, global warming, and ozone depletion.
The contributions of Kantian thought to modern mathematics, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics are now widely acknowledged by scholars. As the essays in this volume show, the general development of modern scientific thought--including the physical sciences, the life sciences, and mathematics--can be viewed as an evolution from Kant through Poincaré to Einstein and the logical positivists and beyond. Focusing on nineteenth-century science, the essays--by historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics--trace the multiple intellectual transformations that have led from Kant's original scientific situation to the scientific problems of the twentieth century.
This 9-volume study of social sciences is a successor to the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (ESS, 1930-1935) and the initial set of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (IESS, 1968) – two groundbreaking Macmillan works that "established standards for knowledge in social science research and practice" (CHOICE, 2001). The entirely new International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Like its predecessors, the set meets the needs of high school and college students, researchers inside and outside academia, and lay readers in public libraries.
The new set highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features nearly 3,000 entirely new articles and important biographies contributed by thousands of scholars (including several Nobel prize winners) from around the world on a wide array of global topics, including: achievement testing, censorship, personality measurement, aging, income distribution, foreign aid (political and economic aspects), food (world problems, consumption patterns), cultural adaptation, comparative health-care systems, terrorism, political correctness, agricultural innovation, legislation of morality, sexual violence and exploitation, white collar crime.
The new 2nd edition also features biographical profiles of the major contributors to the study of the social sciences, past and present.
Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences is a book for researchers who know what they want to study but who have yet to decide how best to study it. This book does not aim to provide a set of rigid recipes for social scientists; rather, it is intended to stimulate them to think about the issues involved when deciding upon their research design.
