Subject(s): Midwives -- Juvenile fiction | Dystopias -- Juvenile fiction | Midwives -- Fiction | Genetic engineering -- Fiction | Parents -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Science fiction Summary: In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia

Subject(s): Food supply | Food industry and trade | Food security | Food supply -- Forecasting | Agriculture -- Economic aspects Content advice: 'This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from div

Subject(s): Investments | Securities | Portfolio management Summary: "The official CAIA Level 1 curriculum book, updated and expanded to reflect the March 2016 exam CAIA Level I is the curriculum book for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Level 1 professional examination. Covering the fundamentals of the alternative invest

Subject(s): Yousafzai, Malala, 1997- | Young women -- Biography -- Education -- Pakistan | Children's rights -- Pakistan Summary: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fiftee

Subject(s): Social capital (Sociology) -- Economic aspects | Political participation -- Congresses -- Social aspects -- Asia | Community development -- Congresses -- Asia Summary: "The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and

Subject(s): International relations | Social sciences and state Summary: "Cause is a problematic concept in social science, as in all fields of knowledge. We organise information in terms of cause and effect to impose order on the world, but this can impede a more sophisticated understanding. In his latest book, Richard Ned Lebow reviews un

Subject(s): European Union -- Europe, Eastern | Democratization -- Europe, Eastern | Democratization -- Government policy -- Europe, Eastern | New democracies -- Europe, Eastern | Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern | Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- Summary: "This book theorizes a mechanism underlying regime-change waves,

Subject(s): Entrepreneurship | Urban economics | Home-based businesses -- Management | Economic policy | Economic development Summary: "Entrepreneurship in cities' focuses on the neglected role of the home and the residential neighbourhood context for entrepreneurship and businesses within cities. The overall objective of the book is to

Subject(s): Democracy -- East Asia | East Asia -- Politics and government Summary: "This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democr

Subject(s): Duncan, Eve (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Secrets -- Fiction | FICTION / Suspense Summary: "This is the finale that fans have been waiting for. In Taking Even, the game began. In Hunting Eve, the chase was on. Now, in Silencing Eve, the prey is cornered. Will Eve Duncan survive? Will those she loves take the fall with her?