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Harwood Fundamentals of Pure & Applied Economics

This title discusses the treatment of urban and regional issues by Marx, Engels and other early Marxists, and examines recent controversies in these areas.

Originally published in 1957, this is an account of the Chiga, a Bantu tribe of Western Uganda. The Chiga are an independent farming people who have no tribal organization, and unlike the neighbouring East African peoples of a similar culture, no caste system. For this reason they are of particular comparative and historical interest. Full accounts are given of their social system, indigenous legal procedure, land and property rights, domestic and economic life and religious beliefs, with particular reference to the powerful Nyabingi cult, which, until its suppression by the British, was of vital social and political importance.

Originally published in 1957, this is an account of the Chiga, a Bantu tribe of Western Uganda. The Chiga are an independent farming people who have no tribal organization, and unlike the neighbouring East African peoples of a similar culture, no caste system. For this reason they are of particular comparative and historical interest. Full accounts are given of their social system, indigenous legal procedure, land and property rights, domestic and economic life and religious beliefs, with particular reference to the powerful Nyabingi cult, which, until its suppression by the British, was of vital social and political importance.

An acclaimed historian explores the dynamic history of the twentieth century Soviet Union In ten concise and compelling chapters, The Soviet Union covers the entire Soviet Union experience from the years 1904 to 1991 by putting the focus on three major themes: warfare, welfare, and empire. Throughout the book, Mark Edele--a noted expert on the topic--clearly demonstrates that the Soviet Union was more than simply "Russia." Instead, it was a multi-ethnic empire. The author explains that there were many incarnations of Soviet society throughout its turbulent history, each one a representative of Soviet socialism. The text covers a wide range of topics: The end Romanov empire; The outbreak of World War I; The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917; The breakdown of the old empire and its re-constitution in the Civil War; The New Economic Policy; The rise of Stalin; The Soviet's role in World War II; Post war normalization; and Gorbachev's attempt to end the Cold War. The author also explores the challenges encountered by the successor states, their struggles with and against democracy, capitalism, authoritarianism, and war. This vital resource: Provides a concise overview of the history of the Soviet Union Includes information on the latest research that takes the broad view of the history of the Soviet Union and its place in world history Treats scholarly disagreements as part of the history of the influence of the Soviet Union on the course of the twentieth century Offers suggestion for further readings and a link to online primary sources Written for students of twentieth century Russia, the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, and twentieth century World History, The Soviet Union: A Short History is a volume in the popular Wiley Short Histories series.

One Man's Quest to Find the Unknown WordsHow many words could a student have added to his or her high-school vocabulary over the course of a typical college career? In strategic preparation for the MCAT-the Medical College Admission Test-the author undertook as a college freshman to record and define every unknown word that he encountered. Over the next three years he recorded and learned roughly 700 words, resulting in his scoring in the 99th percentile on the MCAT's vocabulary section: he knew every word. Two years and another 300 words later, he scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE (the Graduate Record Examination), again knowing every word in the test. In the ensuing years, he has added an additional 300 words. These are the right words-no jargon, no technical terms, no quaint or whimsical words, no high-school words. All of them are in current usage by modern writers.Any college student preparing for a graduate-school exam - the MCAT, LSAT, GRE, or GMAT - will benefit from reading through these more than 1300 words, which are indexed and arranged in order from the more common to the more obscure. By reading through and memorizing the first half of these, the student will have learned the more common of the big words, and might whet his or her appetite for learning the more obscure of them in the second half. The high-school student who already has acquired an advanced vocabulary might benefit also in preparation for the SAT and ACT tests, as the college vocabulary presented here comprises the words that separate the average high-school vocabulary from the extraordinary.