Routledge Handbook on Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa provides a comprehensive and multidimensional exploration of civil society across the MENA region, tracing its historical emergence, diverse expressions, and contemporary transformations.
This book provides a history of the South China Sea conflict and lays out the stakes for each of the bordering states and China's interaction with them - namely, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia; it also examines the U.
Seit der Gründung des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) im Jahr 1961 wurde die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) durch 14 Minister*innen unterschiedlicher politischer und biographischer Prägung gestaltet.
After four hundred years of Ottoman rule followed by a little over two decades as part of the French Mandate, Lebanon finally gained independence in 1943.
This book analyzes Persian carpets through the holistic and multifaceted perspective of cultural linguistics and semiotics, unveiling the deep connections between art, tradition, and collective memory.
In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of planning, economics and urban theory.
This work represents the first integrated account of how deixis operates to facilitate points of view, providing the raw material for reconciling index and object.
This book explores the multifaceted challenges facing business leaders in the third decade of the 21st century, as they navigate an increasingly complex, volatile, and interconnected global environment.
Peace is not built in conference rooms or treaty negotiations alone-it begins in the everyday choices we make with our families, neighbors, and communities.
Urban Design: The Basics provides a brief but compelling overview and introduction to the theory and practice of the multi-disciplinary field of urban design.
The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century.
A follow-up to the author's prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society.
The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich and dynamic traditions of historical writing in East Asia, tracing their evolution across two millennia.
Deviant Space: Abjection, Failure, and Appropriation as Architectural Practice frames architecture as a fragile Symbolic construct, susceptible to appropriation, disruption, and reorientation by deviant bodies.
Fully illustrated in colour, here is the first introduction in English to one of Korea's outstanding cultural assets - the banchado ('painting of the order of guests at a royal event') - relating to all those taking part (1800 people) in the eight-day royal procession to Hwaseong (Gyeonggi Province) organized by King Jeongjo in 1795 for the dual purpose of visiting his father's tomb and celebrating his mother's sixtieth birthday.
Including her survival of Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton's life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career.
Including her survival of Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton's life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career.
Dieses Buch fasst verständlich und konkret die wichtigsten Gewinnstrategien für über 50 der bekanntesten Karten-, Brett-, Würfel- und Gesellschaftsspiele zusammen – kompakt, griffig und sofort anwendbar.
Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature considers how the domestic interior is constituted, imag(in)ed, contested, and mediated in the public forum of advice literature.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of product differentiation, blending insights from industrial organization, spatial economics, and game theory.
Nursing in the European Community (1980) explains the content and implications of the EEC Nursing Directives in relation to the situation in each of the nine member states, and the context of directives for the other major health professions.
After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the country's rebirth as an economic powerhouse and exemplar of liberal democracy in East Asia.