Interdisciplinary studies

This book explores the forms, patterns, and trends in political communication in India in the twenty-first century.

First published in 1930.

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This book discusses the current reality and the future of ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete.

This book offers a concise overview of the development of intercultural philosophy since the early 1990s, focusing on one of its key pioneers Heinz Kimmerle (1930- 2016).

The period between 2001 and 2006 saw the rise and fall of an internationally supported effort to bring a protracted violent conflict in Sri Lanka to a peaceful resolution.

Study of the impact in Britain when the East India Company acquired a South Asian ''empire'' .

Niger is sand, light, and heat.

»Wer nicht gesteht, kommt nie mehr raus«, dient dieser eindrücklichen wie erschreckenden Autobiografie als roter Faden, an dem Beat Meier seit 30 Jahren hängt.

The Inspiring Story of a World War II Hero's Miraculous Survival at SeaJuly 30, 1945--The USS Indianapolis and its 1,196-man crew is making its way toward a small island in the South Pacific.

When can a country be said to benefit from free trade?

First published in 1989, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America provides a guide to the most important organizations, figures, events and themes in the contemporary politics of South America.

The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire.

Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing.

Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria.

This edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider corrective services training, education, research, policy and practice.

Originally published in 1949, India does not attempt to provide a full history of the country, rather it brings to life the Indian story at the time by relating the position at the time of the new Indian Dominions to their historical background, and on the other hand, to concentrate attention on the political and economic growth of India, and to refer to other aspects when necessary.

Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century.

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This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on American collective memory and contemporary public culture.

The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations.

Engaging with the complex natures of space and belonging, Migrations and Diasporas provides a means for understanding the plight of migrants and diasporas as they move through a world divided between those committed to welcoming them into their communities and those who perceive them as a problem or threat.

In the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its zone of influence, few insurgent groups had the resources necessary to confront regular armies.

This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the intellectual and moral aspects of sustainable development.

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery.

Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s, and the vessels first saw service during World War I.

Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg.

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment.

This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years.

Explore women's first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!

Offering students and practitioners an applied approach to the subject, Organizational Culture in Action (OCA) walks them through a six-step model for analyzing an organization's culture.

Reveals how AI works and provides insight into what we can expect of it now and in the future.

The popularity of American television programs and feature films in the international marketplace is widely recognized but scarcely understood.

Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines.

An accessible introduction to understanding the current media environment and the culture it contains, this book provides an indispensable guide to dynamic media literacy in the digital environment.

Lives That Resist Telling challenges the resounding scholarly silence about the lives of migrant women who identify as lesbian, queer, or nonheteronormative.

This book, first published in 1976 and in this second edition in 1988, combines an examination of the political, cultural and economic geography of the Middle East with a detailed study of the region's landscape features, natural resources, environmental conditions and ecological evolution.

Kim offers unique insight into the deeper political dynamics of Korean social policy by analysing the relationship between the broader context of East Asian commonality and the unique circumstances of Korea.

This book takes issue with the likening of contemporary globalization to nineteenth century trade interdependence, in which the defining feature of contemporary globalization is the spread of global production networks, which were notably absent in the past.

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet.

This book examines the phenomenon of 'digital guru media' (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness.

China Inward and Outward Investment Development Report 2016 gathers facts about two-way investment of China and its local regions, providing a wealth of information for a comprehensive understanding of the country's two-way investment development.