Until recently, there has been no sense of a Tibetan prehistory. Beginning in the 1970s,
however, Chinese archaeologists began to systematically explore the plateau, and began to …

Our study provides detailed information on the Lateglacial landscape and vegetation
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The main argument of the book is that specializations means more dependency: the more
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Postcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of
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While the possibility of producing a de-colonized, postcolonial knowledge in development
studies became a subject of considerable debate in the 1990s, there has been little dialogue …

This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting
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Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations
respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of …

World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and
increasingly as a research field. Growing numbers of teachers and Ph. Ds in history are …

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available
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