Interdisciplinary studies

This book classifies and assesses the real and perceived risks associated with both the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses to it in seven African countries — DR Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe — based on large scale quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted in 2022–2024.

This book explores the philosophical foundations of communication studies, suggesting that communication phenomena extend beyond the scope of traditional scientific methods.

In the decade since the 2014 Ferguson Uprising, re-intensified conversations about racial progress continue to be at the forefront of American culture.

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle.

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This book analyzes how the use of digital media by young children can affect their development.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview that explores the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on international trade and its development.

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This book takes a critical macro-level political sociological perspective to understanding South African politics and society.

This book presents insights into how affective educational experiences may be associated with youth criminal behaviour and the pathway to recidivism.

Despite the efforts of leading party spokespersons in the UK to marginalise Brexit as an issue of public discussion, it shows no sign of disappearing from the political agenda any time soon.

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions.

About half a century ago, AI pioneers like Marvin Minsky embarked on the ambitious project of emulating how the human mind encodes and decodes meaning.

This book offers a historical, cultural, political and socio-economic analysis of the British media.

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions.

Assaults on religious liberty and traditional morality are growing fiercer.

The edited volume titled "e;Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia"e; offers a distinctive examination of the power rivalries within the Asian region.

At its core, this book is about political anger: how it is cultivated, where it is taking us, and how to address it.

This book provides a comprehensive account of one significantly underreported aspect of violence affecting young refugee girls today, that of forced child marriage.

This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways.

This book examines the role of media credibility and trust in news personalization and consumer engagement in the US.

This book, adopting a systemic transdisciplinary perspective, explores the sociopsychological and the psychosocial interfaces shaping people's lived experiences of liminality.

This is the first major textbook on occupational therapy (OT) aimed at students and practitioners based in Asia.

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The global rise of streaming and social media platforms, and the influence of tech giants in increasingly more sectors of the economy including the media industry, have disrupted the status quo of the global media competitive landscape.

This book, part of a two-volume exploration, examines the trajectory of Sino-Indian relations, spanning from the aftermath of 1962 war in the Himalayas to the growing rivalries in the Indo-Pacific.

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This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, of summaries of the existing studies furthers our understanding of the impact of digitalisation on spaces, their imaginations and representations.

This book is about how best to respond to existential global threats posed by war and global heating.

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Asher's (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the theoretical framework, investigating its pragmatic features and exploring its referent interpretation.

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle.

In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.

This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines.

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony.

Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject.

Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.

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Nicknamed "e;Euroville,"e; Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a home away from home for BMW, Michelin, Ciba-Geigy, and numerous other European corporations.

In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia.

This book presents an empirical study of the effects of environmental policies on China and its neighboring countries, with a focus on waste and climate policies in China.

Managers and leaders spend a great deal of time on communication; it binds together all the communications in the organisational system.

This book presents an empirical study of the effects of environmental policies on China and its neighboring countries, with a focus on waste and climate policies in China.

This book aims to enhance understanding of the academia, policymakers, and general readers about the development challenges and constraints on long-term economic growth of Pakistan.

This book provides a social and cultural theoretical framework for the digitalization of healthcare communication from a patient-centred perspective.

This book offers a pioneering approach to collaborative co-authorship, integrating storytelling, participatory action research, and innovative uses of technology like Zoom to bridge geographical and cultural divides.

The book utilises Gramsci's concepts of hegemony, counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals, and integral state to interrogate how modes of engagement between the state and civil society have contributed to a polarised polity in Zimbabwe, and in turn how this has impacted democratisation processes.