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1. Technology, Tradition and Survival

   Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia

   By Richard Tapper, Keith McLachlan

   Series: History and Society in the Islamic World

   The contributors address the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the history of Europe and the West, and the threat posed by modern Western technologies....

   Published January 29th 2002 by Routledge
2. Land-locked States of Africa and Asia

   Edited by Richard Hodder-Williams, Sarah J. Lloyd, Keith McLachlan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Geopolitics

   Since 1991 more than a dozen new land-locked states have emerged to be confronted with the geostrategic problems of access and communications. Contributors present the implications of land-lockedness and the historical development of trade routes....

   Published October 31st 1997 by Routledge