Regional / International studies

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts.

The Role of Crises in Shaping Financial Systems: From the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19 underscores the role of crises as turning points for the financial sector and its interactions with the real economy.

Prior to D-Day General Montgomery, the Commanding Officer of HQ21 Army Group, gathered together a small number of ATS girls who had volunteered to serve abroad.

Gairebé un milió de dones van combatre a les files de l'Exèrcit Roig durant la Segona Guerra Mundial.

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology.

The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience.

East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes.

China's rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world.

Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them?

Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew.

This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary.

The 1940s remains an iconic period in world history and retains a fascination for so many.

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans?

While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach.

Examines the role of the OAU and how it has dealt with human rights.

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids.

First published in 1985, this book analyses social welfare in the major countries of Asia, at that time.

“An excellent work that adds to the history of the Normandy Campaign.

The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W.

This volume, with contributions from well-respected experts on Turkey, examines how well different theories and frameworks in international relations explain various aspects of contemporary Turkish foreign policy (TFP).

This book examines how the competition between religious and secular forces influenced state religion policy between 1990 and 2008.

Church of Our Granddaughters is a visionary work of theology and ethics that looks hopefully and lovingly two generations into the future, imagining the Orthodox Church's practices and realities rightfully aligned with its core theological teachings and truths regarding women.

The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions.

Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War.

The peri-urban interface in poor countries is frequently an area of great dynamism and a focus of competition for basic resources.

Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.

This book explores the function of the "e;everyday"e; in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region.

Menopause, Me and You will help you put menopause in proper perspective--as a normal and natural developmental process in the lives of women, not as a disorder or state that causes disease.

Forever known for its blazing cinematic image of General George S.

Between June 1967 and the end of 1973, most independent Black African states abandoned their neutral position in the Middle East conflict, cut their ties with Israel, and gave full support to the political aims of the Arab states.

Kotta Satchidananda Murty (1924-2011), also known as Satchidananda, KSM, Murty, was a vociferous writer and an iconoclast.

In this edifying volume Sarah Corona and Claudia Zapata extrapolate the causes for the divisions between groups in Latin American society, bringing their years of experience investigating the conditions and consequences of heterogeneity in the region.

The BBC and NHK have dominated their national media systems since the 1920s and still play a central role in shaping political, social and cultural life.

Bringing together informed analyses on the challenges of critical skill shortages (CSS) in the Asia-Pacific region, this book provides 14 country reports to discuss the critical jobs and skills to achieve long-term policies and approaches towards realising the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences.

Inner-city black women open their hearts to share the pain of crack addiction and its consequences Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening gap between social and economic classes.

Tomi Komoly, born in 1936 in Budapest, was the only child of a loving Jewish family.

'Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand's present political impasse.

This study, first published in 1993, analyses the relationship among poverty, food insecurity and commercialization in rural China by employing agricultural household models.

This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context.

Some Christians may be uncomfortable to think of Jesus as being political, since the word "e;politics"e; or "e;political"e; has evolved to have negative overtones and connotations in our world today, particularly in Africa, where this monograph from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Malawi has originated.

Zu Ostern 1942 befreit der 22-jährige Deutsche Heinrich Heinen unter lebensgefährlichen Bedingungen seine jüdische Braut Edith Meyer aus dem Ghetto von Riga.

Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships is a collection of advice columns and personal reflections that will help lesbian couples validate and appreciate their unique relationships.

This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

Over the past decade the European Union (EU) has gradually developed the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with its neighbours.

Based on in-depth studies of the relationship between expertise and democracy in Europe, this book presents a new approach to how the un-elected can be made safe for democracy.

This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries.

The study of international relations, has traditionally been dominated by Western ideas and practices, and marginalized the voice and experiences of the non-Western states and societies.

The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty yearsHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice?