Interdisciplinary studies

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England.

Political uncertainty and instability characterise many regions around the world and, increasingly, can be observed in more established democracies.

This authored monograph covers a viability to approach to traffic management by advising to vehicles circulated on the network the velocity they should follow for satisfying global traffic conditions;.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of global cities, making a valuable contribution to the fields of Olympic studies and urban studies.

This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

Monetary and Financial Integration in West Africa details the progress, challenges faced, and potential of the project intended to create a West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) between Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the carpet.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

First published in 1985.

Printed poison.

"e;David Harrison writes very well, and presents a good, well-balanced and perceptive appraisal of current perspectives.

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures.

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.

This book explores the interaction between science and society and the development of forensic science as well as the historical roots of crime detection in colonial India.

College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

This book examines the relationship between migration, diversification and inequality in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China.

En el nuevo sistema internacional emergente, la creciente diversidad de acercamientos entre países y economías de Occidente anuncia el inicio de un cambio de ciclo que requiere, una nueva alianza latina cimentada en la interlocución y mediación cultural en defensa de una cosmovisión común.

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice.

Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement.

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism.

This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.

First published in 1928.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.

India's cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion.

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective.

On Science: Concepts, Cultures, and Limits explores science and its relationship with religion, philosophy, ethics, mathematics, and with socio-economic changes.

Die Select Society of Edinburgh (1754–1764) gehörte zu den renommiertesten Gelehrteninstitutionen im Schottland der Aufklärung.

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning?

Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule.

Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian ideas.

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism.

The onset of digital archaeology and its subsequent remarkable development has had a crucial impact on the study of cultural heritage.

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.

This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs.

When rifleman Tom Guttridge returned from war in the early summer of 1945, he brought home not only vivid memories of the battlefield and his five years in prisoner-of-war camps, but a unique collection of photographs obtained from his German captors by trading items from Red Cross parcels.

This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence.

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is completing a decade.

Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 19782012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism.

First Published in 1997.