Interdisciplinary studies

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of youth development and protection in the Indian context.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.

Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this?

Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations.

This book sheds light on the practice, challenges, and prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) amidst wide contestation, backlash, operational challenges, and expectation gaps associated with the theory and practice of the RtoP.

This edited volume explores migration movements to Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday influence those of today.

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS.

The book examines the management of social purpose driven organizations in an Asian context, using the case study approach.

THE STUDY OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION HAS TRADITIONALLY FORMED AN important part of the study of animal behaviour.

The recent COVID-19 global pandemic exemplifies the need for efficient, reliable, and real-time tools and technology for forecasting and predicting healthcare disasters as well as for helping to restrict the subsequent spread and fatality of deadly diseases.

In Endgame at Stalingrad, the final volume of his acclaimed Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz completes his definitive account of one of World War IIs most infamous confrontations, the campaign that marked Germanys failure on the Eastern Front and proved to be a turning point in the war.

Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century.

Diversity bedeutet Vielfalt oder Verschiedenheit.

This book, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars from multiple perspectives in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content.

The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam.

Ireland's relationship with the European Union has been determined by the behaviour, actions and discourse of political parties.

Economic growth in China has been exceptionally strong in recent decades, but the country still faces enormous economic problems, including huge poverty, uneven regional development, the problems associated with strengthening capital formation, modernising and making more productive the very large former state sector.

Semiconductor equipment modeling has in recent years become a field of great interest, because it offers the potential to support development and optimization of manufacturing equipment and hence reduce the cost and improve the quality of the reactors.

This book explores resilience, social capital and relationships of power in an examination of the manner in which capital can be converted from one form to another.

This book introduces readers to the ethics of philanthropy, particularly in the Indian context.

In trying to establish a presence in China, foreign investors have found it imperative to understand the regulatory environment of this potentially huge market.

An Introduction to Korean Linguistics is a valuable and comprehensive text for those with an interest in Korean linguistics.

The conflict in Eastern Ukraine and the European refugee crisis have led to a dramatic increase in forced displacement across Europe.

This book serves as a case study of the Sudanese Communist Party and its impact as a grassroots movement that championed the Sudanese people.

This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong.

In the spirit of models of argument starting with inquiry, this book starts with a question: What might it mean to teach argument in ways that open up spaces for change-changes of mind, changes of practice and policy, changes in ways of talking and relating?

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted.

This book provides a systematic overview and in-depth analysis of the effects of rebel group inclusion on democracy following the end of conflict across the globe.

Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty.

This handbook combines the perspectives of communication studies, economics and management, and psychology in order to provide a comprehensive economic view on personal and mass communication.

Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern society that draws upon the author's own and many other published sources concerning the social aspects of books.

Sound, music and storytelling are important tools of resistance, resilience and reconciliation in creative practice from protracted conflict to post-conflict contexts.

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region.

Counseling Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness describes frontline clinical treatment of HIV-infected chemically dependent persons.

Bodies that Birth puts birthing bodies at the centre of questions about contemporary birth politics, power, and agency.

This book closely scrutinizes the individual and collective roles played by China, the EU and the USA in contemporary world politics.

Bengal's traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century.

From the end of WWII to the end of the Obama administration, development assistance in Africa has been viewed as an essential instrument of US foreign policy.

This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the "e;usual"e; mold for research--white, married or widowed, urban or suburban persons with adult children.

First Published in 2000.

A practical handbook for programming directors, this guide focuses on achieving specific objectives in today's modern, competitive environment.

The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history.

These studies focus on questions of religious interaction and change in India from the sixth century B.

This book traces the unitary source of all of the world's major religions.