Interdisciplinary studies

This book fills an existing academic literature gap by providing a sound and synthetic analysis on the process of European Territorial Cooperation over the last 30 years.

Socio-economic and political issues are dealt with selectively within a chronological historical framework, covering the dramatic colonial impact of 1940-60 until the present day.

Gangs have long been a social and criminal threat to society.

First Published in 1943, American Labour presents a comprehensive story of the American trade union movement.

This title was first published in 2001.

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.

From one of America's best loved authors comes this collection of WWII novels.

Despite for many years receiving the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any lasting developmental outcomes and suffer from major weaknesses which undermine their very survival.

This book provides an easy-to-follow introduction to the principal methods of property valuation in Australia within the context of International Valuation Standards, so bridging the gap between traditional property valuation methods and the modern era of global valuation governance.

In the field of medieval Indian historiography, an eight-volume magnum opus, History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, by Sir Henry Myers Elliot (1808-53) and the editor-compiler of his posthumous papers, John Dowson (1820-81), was published from London between 1867 and 1877.

The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), Ghiyath Shahi, collected and added to by his son and successor, Nasir Shah.

This book is conceived as an introductory text into the theory of syntactic and semantic information, and information flow.

First published in 1969, African Penal Systems is the first book to explore the problems of African criminology.

Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi's Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi's place as "e;the Japanese Shakespeare.

Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war.

One of the most carefully prepared liturgies of any Roman Catholic parish's year is the celebration of 'First Communion'.

Global cities with a largely cosmopolitan environment, such as Auckland, Berlin, Dubai, London, New York, Shanghai or Singapore, are successfully developing and attracting entrepreneurs from all over the world.

In recent years women's movements and democracy movements appear to have been more successful in promoting social equality than labour movements or development movements.

In the coming decades, challenges and risks associated with rapid population ageing will be paramount in Asia-Pacific.

This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yu-t-'ai hsin-yung - the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545.

Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis.

This book considers China's recent engagement in the Middle East, to what extent its approach has fundamentally changed, and how this role change has been received by regional and other actors.

This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state recognition in international politics.

Branded as "e;the new Falun Gong"e; by local authorities, The Church of Almighty God is the most persecuted religious movement in China today.

The Russian Orthodox Church, the largest and most powerful religious institution in Russia, has become one of the central pillars of Vladimir Putin's authoritarianism.

During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power.

'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "e;political anthropological historical school"e;.

This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation.

This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - DPRK).

John McIntosh attempts to describe more accurately and completely the spectrum of Evangelicalism (Anglican) that three successive principals of Moore Theological College appropriated and taught in the period.

This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation.

Realism has been endowed with a certain orthodox status as the aesthetic counterpart of China's modernization, and studies of Chinese film history have largely accepted a master narrative of realism as the guiding aesthetic of mainland Chinese cinema.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families.

In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband's invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa.

During the past two decades, the frequency and range of expert testimony by psychologists have increased dramatically.

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley.

The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities takes a new look at C.

This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society.

This book contributes to existing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) by demonstrating new advocacy strategies and the greater interconnectedness of various R2P proponents.

Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.

This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective disaster mitigation and the alleviation of suffering in times of crisis.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media.

Originally published in 1967, reissued now with a new introduction, Africa in Search of Democracy in the author's words was 'a humble contribution to Africa's search for political wisdom whereby to avoid destruction'.

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future.