Interdisciplinary studies

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood.

Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia.

The question of how Islamic law regulates the notions of just recourse to and just conduct in war has long been the topic of heated controversy, and is often subject to oversimplification in scholarship and journalism.

Communication Yearbook 14, originally published in 1991 delves into research concerned with: audiences - their effect on the mass media and how the mass media effect them; the quality of mass media performance and public opinion; the study of contemporary media from an organization studies approach; the implications of propoganda; the pressure of public opinion; and media agenda setting, among other issues.

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders.

This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of 3,000 years of Chinese literature from its earliest beginnings to the end of the Qing (1644-1911), the last empire of China.

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II.

This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time.

This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of 'social entrepreneurship' in Thailand and Southern India.

In a new and critical analysis, this book explores the impact of an influential idea - sustainable development - on the institutions and practices governing use of land.

Comprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition.

Continuing debates over the meaning of development and awareness of the persistence of poverty have resulted in increasing concern over how to 'do' development.

Nationale Armeen und partikulare Militärbündnisse verschärfen die globalen Probleme.

This book explores the concept of advertising and the different ways advertising is understood and evaluated.

Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display.

This reissue, first published in 1983, is an authoritative study of economic integration among the states of West Africa, focusing upon the issues and experience of the four main initiatives for regional integration in West Africa, namely the Economic Community of West African States, the Mano River Union, the Communaute Economique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, and the recent initiative for the establishment of an economic and monetary union between Senegal and the Gambia.

This edited collection covers the role of the process observer - a position that enhances the effectiveness of group functioning by observing the process, summarizing the behavior of the group so that the group can learn and, if needed, improve its functioning.

This volume explores the work of Robert W.

This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean.

In October 2010, Shane Clifton had a serious accident that left him a quadriplegic.

Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements.

This book discusses the history of unrest and conflict in Northeast India from 1947 to the present day.

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.

First published in 1977.

Kampo medicine is a traditional medicine that originated from China over two thousand years ago.

The State of the Jews examines the current predicament of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, both of which still stand at the storm center of history, because Jews can never take the right to live as a natural right.

This book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia.

This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget.

A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinkingThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning.

The current growth of the Chinese economy is of immense importance for the global economy.

This book is a biography of Eisaku Sato (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history.

In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation.

This book examines the world of religious conservatism in Christianity and Islam through a comparison of two eighteenth-century traditionalist icons, Jonathan Edwards and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

First published in 2006.

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies.

Is TV news racist?

Dieser Praxisleitfaden ist für Menschen geschrieben, die in Deutschland eine (kreditfinanzierte) Immobilie kaufen oder selbst bauen wollen.

As a multi-faceted introduction to sacramental theology, the purposes of this Handbook are threefold: historical, ecumenical, and missional.

Since gaining independence from colonial rule, most African countries have been struggling to build democratic and peaceful states.

International migration and workers' remittances have, of late, become a significant economic and social phenomena affecting the fortunes of millions of families in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Half a century before the 'flying wing' B-2 stealth bomber entered service, John K.

While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new frameworks when approaching them critically.

First published in 1988.

Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India.

Young women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood received a CHOICE "e;Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2010"e; award from the American Library Association.

Hundert Jahre nach dem Untergang Galiziens als territoriale Verwaltungseinheit der Habsburger Monarchie geht dieser Band der Frage nach, was von dem knapp 150 Jahre bestehenden Kronland und seiner multikulturellen Lebenswelt geblieben ist, was durch historische Wandlungsprozesse verloren ging und welche neuen Perspektiven in der Forschung zu Galizien eingeschlagen werden können.

This volume analyzes the rising inclusion of new and emerging technologies in business.