This title was first published in 2001. This study indicates that researchers have far to go in understanding and assessing how development projects work. The author shows that, often, the perception of failure is not shared by those whom were intended to benefit. She uses a case study of Samoan villagers introduced to cattle farming to examine the wider development process and challenge the conventional theories. By drawing on people-centred perspectives that give much greater weight to the role of culture in development, the volume does not simply criticize development project management, but suggests practical and positive ways forward, encouraging spontaneous indigenous development which should be supported by projects where appropriate.

The Year that Defined American Journalism explores the succession of remarkable and decisive moments in American journalism during 1897 – a year of significant transition that helped redefine the profession and shape its modern contours. This defining year featured a momentous clash of paradigms pitting the activism of William Randolph Hearst's participatory 'journalism of action' against the detached, fact-based antithesis of activist journalism, as represented by Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, and an eccentric experiment in literary journalism pursued by Lincoln Steffens at the New York Commercial-Advertiser. Resolution of the three-sided clash of paradigms would take years and result ultimately in the ascendancy of the Times' counter-activist model, which remains the defining standard for mainstream American journalism. The Year That Defined American Journalism introduces the year-study methodology to mass communications research and enriches our understanding of a pivotal moment in media history.

An eerie guest arrives at a hospital in the middle of the night, and strange things begin to happen. Before long, a local doctor and a nurse find themselves thrown into a strange world of magic, super beings, mind control, and creatures out of their nightmares. The book is a collection of three time lines, each following a “visitor” with a unique set of abilities and view on the world. Each of the three main characters has a very specific goal in mind, and their stories intertwine. Our world is a stage for a conflict, and we are the ultimate resource . . . one way or another.

Stepping back from the immediate demands of policy-making, this book creates a complex and informative picture of the different social forces at play in the integration of CAM with orthodox medicine.