19 papers from an international workshop held in Venzuela in 2005 which explore a range of issues related to human exploitation of molluscs in the distant past.

This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri

Classroom management, cultural diversity, and parenting are vitally important in teaching and learning.

In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary ...

This unique book shows just how these flows are computed then interpreted and clarifies the often misunderstood economic and political motives that explain why some regions receive more monies than others.

Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil.

This volume provides comprehensive coverage of fiscal federalism by some of the leading scholars in the field. . . This Handbook is an excellent addition to the present discourse on the role of the state in fiscal matters.