Outlines how government and private organizations have inadequately addressed the AIDS issue because of the attitude of society toward the population groups most affected by the disease[...]

The twenty-first century is replete with uncertainty and complexity: game-changing events and trends are transforming the world beyond recognition. For the first time in human history more people live in cities than in the countryside and greater numbers suffer from obesity than from hunger. Emergin[...]

In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars--an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. Here, Mauro Guilln and Adrian Tschoegl tackle the question of how this once-sleepy, fam[...]