Product Description: ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free-market vision of relationships among the United States, Mexico, and Canada...read more

Product Description: With new forms, techniques, and checklists, this second edition provides 101 strategies for using learners' prior knowledge.

Product Description: Most health care professionals are committed to the principles of medicare, and so are most other Canadians. Yet everyone recognizes that the health care system has serious problems, and often does not provide the level of care the public expects...read more

Product Description: This atlas makes pioneering use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to unlock part of the treasure trove of information contained in England's unrivalled medieval public records. The result is an indispensable work of reference...read more

Product Description: A commercialising economy focuses upon a formative period in the development of the English economy. Between the making of Domesday Book and the end of the thirteenth century far-reaching changes occurred in the scale and organisation of economic activity...read more

Product Description: This volume of essays on agrarian history is the result of a conference held by the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy in 1988, during which participants discussed agricultural productivity in relation to the European economy of the past...read more

Product Description: These five papers were originally presented at a residential seminar on medieval economy and society held at Chester in July 1989 under the auspices of the Historical Geography Research Group of the Institute of British Geographers...read more