China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Kroeber Arthur R.)(Paperback)

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Kroeber Arthur R.)(Paperback)

China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international

Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Frantz Erica)(Paperback)

In Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Erica Frantz guides us through today's authoritarian wave, explaining how it came to be and what its features are. She also looks at authoritarians themselves, focusing in particular on the techniques they use to take power, the strategies they

Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (McCarty Nolan)(Paperback)

Nolan McCarty's Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) is an accessible introduction to polarization in America. McCarty takes readers through what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of our rising political conflicts, delving into social, economic,

Behavioral Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Baker H. Kent)(Paperback)

Behavioral Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) provides an overview of common shortcuts and mistakes people make in managing their

Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Wright Dale S.)(Paperback)

Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know offers readers a brief, authoritative guide to one of the world's largest and most diverse religious traditions in a reader-friendly question-and-answer format. Dale Wright covers the origins and early history of Buddhism, the diversity of types of Buddhism

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (Waxman Dov)(Paperback)

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs To Know(R) offers an accessible and balanced guide to the world's most intractable conflict. Covering the conflict from its origins through to the present day, Dov Waxman provides clear and concise answers to common questions, from the most

Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Wilson Mary E.)(Paperback)

Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers -- or they can be useless. But what are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics begins to

Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Fisman Ray)(Paperback)

Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), renowned scholars Ray Fisman

Yemen: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Orkaby Asher)(Paperback)

A comprehensive introduction to Yemen's current crises, major players, and potential solutions to an ongoing civil war. In 2014, a tribal alliance from Yemen's northern regions seized the capital city of Sana'a and overthrew a republic that had ruled since 1962. Known as the Houthi Movement, these

Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Sugimoto Cassidy R.)(Paperback)

Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring for indicators of the value and reach of research. The question of how to quantify the impact and importance of research and scholarly output, from the publication of books and journal articles to the indexing

Ptsd: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Rothbaum Barbara O.)(Paperback)

What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and who experiences it? Why do some people develop PTSD after a traumatic event, while others do not? What are the unique impacts of trauma on children? Are there effective treatments for traumatic stress disorders? PTSD: What Everyone Needs to Know�

Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know (Campbell John)(Paperback)

Eating Disorders: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Walsh B. Timothy)(Paperback)

Eating disorders are potentially life-threatening psychiatric illnesses commonly accompanied by serious medical problems. They typically appear during adolescence or early adulthood, a time when young people are heading to college or interviewing for a first job. Many people recover fully from

Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Yekelchyk Serhy)(Paperback)

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial

The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (Dodds Klaus)(Paperback)

The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know is an essential primer for those seeking information about one of the most important regions in the world

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Chenoweth Erica)(Paperback)

A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests,

Hoarding: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Steketee Gail)(Paperback)

Hoarding disorder is the excessive saving of objects and difficulty parting with them to a point that interferes with one's ability to properly use rooms and furnishings in the home. Hoarding can become dangerous, sometimes resulting in structural problems and fires, or in hazardous sanitary

Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Netanel Neil Weinstock)(Paperback)

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and

Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Bornstein David)(Paperback)

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create amore

Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Judah Tim)(Paperback)

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the

The Brain: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Wenk Gary L.)(Paperback)

What is the principle purpose of a brain? A simple question, but the answer has taken millennia for us to begin to understand. So critical for our everyday existence, the brain still remains somewhat of a mystery. Gary L. Wenk takes us on a tour of what we do know about this enigmatic organ,

Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Raymer Michael G.)(Paperback)

Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and with these discoveries believed they could predict the internal behavior of the atom. However, once their predictions were compared to the results of experiments in the real world, it became clear that

Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Weis Judith S.)(Paperback)

Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms--chemical, industrial, and agricultural-and the sources of pollution are endless. In recent history, we've seen oil spills, untreated sewage, eutrophication, invasive species, heavy metals, acidification, radioactive substances, marine litter, and

The Qur'an: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (McAuliffe Jane)(Paperback)

This book provides a brief, accessible overview of the Qur'an in question-and-answer format. Jane McAuliffe, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Qur'an, introduces readers to this important text by discussing its origins, structure, themes, interpretations, and what it has to say about a