Interdisciplinary studies

Sport is a geographic phenomenon.

Digitalisierung und technologischer Fortschritt verändern das menschliche Selbstverständnis.

The Civil Rights Movement.

This edited volume constitutes the first available comprehensive business history of Latin America available in English.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

THIS PATHBREAKING Work analyzes the evolution of China's financial reforms since 1979.

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal-industrial complex-the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalised exploitation of animals.

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

This collection brings the broad discussion about digital humanities into focus through Shakespeare in research, teaching, publishing and performance.

This book elucidates the formation and development of theories of action in school reforms for Schools as Learning Communities (SLC) during ten years from its inception in 1998 in select Japanese elementary schools, junior high schools, and one secondary school.

Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to virtualize human targets.

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music.

This engaging, inviting textbook from a renowned expert in writing education provides all the knowledge, pedagogical strategies, and tools needed to enable any teacher to be an effective teacher of writing.

This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship.

An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world.

This book explores ideologies, conflicts and ideas that underpinned art historical writing in Ukraine in the 20th century.

As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany.

This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting dominant and hegemonic power relations.

Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women and disability.

Indian culture relies greatly on visual expression, and this book uses both classical Indian and contemporary Western philosophies and current studies on cognitive sciences, and applies them to contextualize Tantric visual culture.

Three provocative exposés from a National Jewish Book Award–winning journalist address the CIA’s recruitment of Nazis and use of psychological warfare.

From ecological disaster to partition, this is a fascinating account of the extraordinary events that have produced modern Bangladesh.

Models of Journalism investigates the most fundamental questions of how journalists can best serve the public and what factors enable or obstruct them in doing so.

This book places family at the centre of discussions about migration and migrant life, seeing migrants not as isolated individuals, but as relational beings whose familial connections influence their migration decisions and trajectories.

Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "e;darkness metaphor"e; -- the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans.

This classic history, first published in 1883, is the first English-language work to provide a comprehensive history of Burma, now Myanmar, based on Burmese sources.

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and the women's movement.

By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries.

Central Asia and Xinjiang - the far north-western province of China - are of increasing international importance.

This book examines the emergence and the political use of what has come to be known as "e;culture wars"e; in the United Kingdom.

The book reports on advanced topics in interactive robotics research and practice; in particular, it addresses non-technical obstacles to the broadest uptake of these technologies.

In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler.

More than twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E.

The book that can help you reconcile being both gay and CatholicSons of the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men spotlights testimonials from over thirty gay Catholic men to answer the question, How can you be gay and Catholic?

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan.

Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century considers the development of Qur'anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation.

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and the women's movement.

This multi-sited island ethnography illustrates how the embattled politics of (im)mobility, belonging, and patronage among coastal fishing communities in Sri Lanka's militarised northeast have intersected in the wake of civil war.

The Middle East is an area of great importance globally, yet misperceptions abound.

Western philosophy has often claimed for itself not just a distinct sphere of knowledge, but a distinct form of communication, set against ordinary speech.

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