In the Name of the Great Work

In the Name of the Great WorkBeginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalins vision of a total transformation of nature. Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war fatigued publics alike. By the time of Stalins death, however, these attempts at transformationwhich relied upon

but also the historical realization

It summons religious scholarship into urgent dialogue with the other disciplines and with the world's policymakers

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers – emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain – and the local daily-life realities of their young

Leading the way in providing evidence-based assessment guidance to prepare clinicians for their future in healthcare

This book defends the derivation of the ethical principle of universalizability presented by Jürgen Habermas

this chapter highlights key challenges and opportunities in the systems

a more comprehensive identification of the laying hen gastrointestinal tract microbial population has emerged

Including the latest advances in the field

which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom

and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital

It then presents a new perspective on the Nile

overview of special issues in men’s health