Almqvist Wiksell Internat. - Böcker

In 2001 an intensive excavation began within the central part of the large site at Uppakra, southernmost Sweden. This was not the first excavation of the site but the first in which the topsoil was removed within large trenches in order to record ...

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A volume of 14 essays, principally on South Arabic and Ethiopian philological subjects.

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Five essays in historical jurisprudence covering topics such as Aristotle and Justice, Luther and the Law of Nature and Natural Law theories.

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Why do some children in the developing world choose to stay out of school? Is it because poverty leaves them with no options or because schooling seems to offer them few benefits? This book discusses the extent to which schooling can actually be p...

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Deals with industrial renewal in Finland during the period 1945-98. Analysing the underlying factors of the origins of innovations, development processes, and characteristics of innovations, this study describes the technical development and the i...

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The persistence of a low productive peasant sector in sub-Saharan Africa is one of the enigmas of development research. The author approaches this question by analysing the paths of agrarian change in two contrasting cases - Thyolo and Mzimba dist...

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Shows that the mechanisms behind knowledge accumulation and the sources of productivity growth differ from industry to industry depending on what is produced and what technology is used. This thesis tries to rethink the history of productivity gro...

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This volume contains contributions to the 1987 conference. The papers discuss how patterns of culture are preserved, modified and transformed under the influences of general tendencies in Sweden and Serbia, bearing in mind differences in cultural ...

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On September 10-12, 1986 the Academy organized a symposium as part of its collaboration with Akademia Nauk in Warsaw, Poland. This volume contains papers read and discussed at this symposium. The authors deal with questions concerning settlement, ...

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This is a monograph on the development and geographical distribution of runic forms in the older "futhark" (C.200-750 A.D.). Runic forms employed during this period in Scandinavia, on the Continent, in England and in Frisia are compared....

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This anthology treats works of women writers spanning from the eighteenth century to the present day and includes chapters on Virginia Woolf's appropriation of the essay form, American road novels from the 1940s to the present, and studies of pres...

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