Interdisciplinary studies

While global challenges continue to reshape the here and now, public and corporate finance management needs to adapt quickly to increase the efficiency of institutions, enterprises and policies to face our new reality.

Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.

In an increasingly interconnected and digital world, this book provides comprehensive guidance on cybersecurity leadership specifically tailored to the context of public policy and administration in the Global South.

Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at nonbelief and nonreligion in Islam.

The notes that Ludger Kuhnhardt wrote in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal impressions, encounters and experiences of a political scientist and journalist working all over the world.

Sports have historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for prestige on the world stage, but also to project hegemony and power in an anarchic international system.

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level.

This book examines the theoretical, historical, and practical dimensions of how a city operates internationally.

This accessible book offers a unique, evidence-based perspective on the art and science of giving.

Focusing on the unique story of the "e;recolonisation"e; of Hong Kong since 2019, this book describes the environment of news gathering and publishing during this period and studies how this has connected to wider political, economic, and social changes.

Akreyi investigates the development of federal relations in Iraq from the adoption of the new Federal Constitution in 2005 to the Kurdistan independence referendum in 2017.

This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry.

This book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children's vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture.

This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

This book gathers together the experiences of leaders across sectors, organisations and client groups to help readers introduce, develop, and maintain psychologically informed environments (PIE) and trauma informed care (TIC) within their workspaces.

This book delves into the transformative power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in reshaping the landscape of sustainable development in one of the world's most vibrant regions.

This book provides a systematic study of the challenges of aging in China and of the measures being taken, planned, and still needed to cope with the challenges.

Although transformations in retailing are of tremendous current interest, there is no single broad-ranging account of the evolution of retailing formats.

This volume examines the state of democracy in South Asia after the first two decades of the millennium.

"e;This account of oft-forgotten aspects of the war that is also a powerful survival story is highly recommended for the casual reader of military history as well as the serious scholar of the Pacific war.

The third edition of Grieving Beyond Gender explores the different ways that individuals grieve, noting that gender is only one factor that affects an individual's style or pattern of grief.

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art.

This book analyses China's multidimensional rise in the context of the international political economy, drawing on Susan Strange's concept of "e;structural power.

This book sheds light on the complexities of the European Union's (EU) influence in a world dominated by global power politics.

This book explores the challenges that international law faces in curtailing human rights violations arising from mineral exploitation.

This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.

Islam in Russia is a rare scholarly attempt to understand the tolerant nature of Islam in the modern Russian Federation since the state's official acceptance of Islam.

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level.

Exploring social media's integration with modern society, this text empowers students as social media consumers and creators.

Fundamentals and Frontiers of Medical Education and Decision-Making brings together international experts to consider the theoretical, practical, and sociocultural foundations of health professions education.

‚Männlichkeit‘ gilt als lange gleichgesetzt mit dem ‚Allgemein-Menschlichen‘ und daher als Spezifikum regelrecht unsichtbar.

This book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds.

This WWII military history explores the dramatic turning point of the Battle of Normandy-illustrated throughout with archival photos and maps.

From a sociological perspective, this book explores issues related to population mobility, family pensions, and the lives of workers and peasants during the 70 years of urbanization since the founding of New China from the perspectives of population, pension security, employment structure transformation, and social insurance systems, thus exploring the deep logic behind China's successful experience.

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore.

From a sociological perspective, this book explores issues related to population mobility, family pensions, and the lives of workers and peasants during the 70 years of urbanization since the founding of New China from the perspectives of population, pension security, employment structure transformation, and social insurance systems, thus exploring the deep logic behind China's successful experience.

Nestled deep in the Surrey countryside stands the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial.

This book presents a new approach to the study of Religious Zionism.

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James Ford Rhodes' 'History of the Civil War' is a seminal work that offers a comprehensive and detailed account of one of the most pivotal events in American history.

Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions.