In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social...

Part I Overture: The Sacred Symphony.- 1 Our Objective - We Just Want to Change the World (Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi, Stephen Hill) -- Part II First Movement: ‘Recognizing the Need for Change’ -- 2 The Survivability of Humanity within the Current Global Economic Paradigm (Stephen Hill)...

Introduction (Editors: Emre Özçelik and Yonca Özdemir) -- Chapter 1. Late Ottoman Period, 1838-1908 (Author: Seven Ağır) -- Chapter 2. Formation of Modern Turkey, 1908-1929 (Author: Zafer Toprak) -- Chapter 3. The Statist Era, 1929-1947 (Authors: M. Erdem Özgür and Eyüp Özveren) --...

What is the relation between economics and religion? In particular, are theology and economics entirely autonomous and distinct areas of inquiry? Economics and Religion: Are They Distinct? takes an inductive approach using case studies to shed light on the extent to which economics may be...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity (Max Koedijk and Neville Morley) -- Chapter 2. Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece (Michael Leese) -- Chapter 3. Inequality in the Peloponnesian War (Manu Dal Bo Manu Dal Borgo) --...

Looking back on World War I at the turn of the century -- The international pattern and world order under "A Hundred Years of change" -- National rejuvenation and peripheral diplomacy under "A hundred years of change" -- The responsibility of great powers and global governance under the "Hundred...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and...

1. China and its New Position in the World Economy -- 2.China's Economic Growth and its Main Sources -- 3. The Growing Importance of China in Global Trade -- 4. FDI as a Driving Force of China's Expansion -- 5. The Importance of the Energy Sector in China's Growth Strategy -- Quo Vadis China