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Draws on the Quaker principle of respecting the integrity, resilience, and beauty of communities to present a new economic model that will protect the well-being of the human race.

Middle East and North Africa brings together a group of influential analysts to examine a region which has experienced great territorial change from colonial times to the present. The articles examine issues such as: the Sudan-Uganda boundary, demarcation lines in contemporary Beirut, the Palestinian state, and legal aspects of the Iraqi sovereignty and boundary disputes with Kuwait.--Publisher description.

Herman Daly is probably the most prominent advocate of the need for a change in economic thinking in response to environmental crisis. an iconoclast economist who has worked as a renegade insider at the World Bank in recent years, Daly has argued for overturning some basic economic assumptions. He has a wide and growing reputation among environmentalists, both inside and outside the academy. Daly argues that if sustainable development means anything...

Man's evolution has been importantly shaped by the frontiers he has encountered as he moved across the world. The frontiers shaped him, but also he defined those frontiers and, for good or ill, thereby transformed the natural world and his own place in it. These volumes examine the way Frederick Jackson Turner's theory of the frontier is applied to its cultural, economic, political, and social development.

"Drawing on examples from the US and Mexico, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Spain and Morocco, as well as various parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, this timely book offers a comparative perspective on culture at state boundaries. The authors examine the role of the state, ethnicity, transnationalism, border symbols, rituals and identity in an effort to understand how nationalism informs attitudes and behaviour at local, national and international...

On the Rim of Mexico addresses the ties and asymmetries across the U.S.-Mexico border, from Tijuana/San Diego to Matamoros/Brownsville. Based on author Ramon Eduardo Ruiz's extensive research, travels, remembrances, and first-hand interviews with the people on the Mexican side, the book probes the history, economics, and customs that have shaped this region today. While the author considers many timely issues (the impact of drug trafficking, legal...

In this history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores how 19th century economic and political conditions transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico, arguing the years between the establishment of the U.S.-Mexico boundary in 1848 and the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 constitute a critical period in Mexican history.