This book, spanning the years 1957-1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785-1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modernization.
Was hat der Sprachimpuls Rudolf Steiners mit einer Verlebendigung unserer Gedanken, einer Veränderung des sozialen Verhaltens und mit dem Mysterium von Golgatha zu tun?
This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women's studies seen in a global perspective.
First published in 1978, this book argues that the troubadour revival in late medieval Spain was a conservative reaction to social crisis by those who belonged, or were affiliated, to a powerful, expanding and belligerent aristocracy.
An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944 45.
This book constitutes a timely and unique interdisciplinary endeavour in law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle inequalities between, across, and within European societies and states.
The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century socialist models.
Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony.
This comprehensive textbook is designed to equip researchers, academics, and students with the essential tools and knowledge needed to conduct advanced research across various disciplines.
First published in 1992, The Inward Gaze looks at men's fantasies and self-images from a wide range of texts (notably boy's superhero comics, modernist literary classics, and a Freudian case-study) to discuss the theories of subjectivity, masculinity, and emotion.
This book explores Malaysia's experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing the profound economic and societal challenges faced from 2020 to 2022.
Host country to the 1988 Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea ('South Korea') became prominent in world affairs but surprisingly little was known about the general public.
This textbook offers a practical and engaging introduction to spatial econometric modelling, detailing the key models, methodologies and tools required to successfully apply a spatial approach.
This textbook offers a practical and engaging introduction to spatial econometric modelling, detailing the key models, methodologies and tools required to successfully apply a spatial approach.
Onda compares Japan's traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nation's societal fabric, with those of other countries across Asia, including Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and the Pacific islands region, namely Palau and Pohnpei.
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all people are free to codetermine the future of their society and equally entitled to their religion and beliefs, given the historical bias towards Christianity in politics and culture within many European societies.
Shifting from the idea that our current 'environmental question' arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on 'Being' over 'Life'-and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus-this book unfolds a philosophical and sociological proposal for transitioning toward the sustainability of life.
Zambia is one African country which has evolved from being a classic example of a colonial economy to become an independent state with a large export enclave.
