The current financial crisis has prompted a widespread critique of existing conventional economics and deep dissatisfaction with varying aspects regarding the economics profession including teaching techniques. A reform of teaching practices within economics needs to be pre-requisited on intellectual diversity…

The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com, Aim  To identify Antarctic palaeoendemic taxa and their probable glacial refugia from regional groups of endemic species records.


Location  Antarctica.


Methods  We compiled a list of Antarctic non-marine invertebrates…

Successive government policies have created a situation where most residential and nursing care is provided by the independent sector. It is in the nature of a marketized and privatized care system that homes will periodically close or change ownership. The…

Ecological restoration frequently involves setting fixed species or habitat targets to be achieved by prescribed
restoration activities or through natural processes. Where no reference systems exist for defining
outcomes or where restoration is planned on a large spatial scale, a…

This straightforward and jargon-free book will provide students with the theoretical understandings, practical knowledge and skills they need to carry out independent research. The international contributors identify key research methodologies, data collection tools and analysis methods, and focus on the…