Interdisciplinary studies

With the US-Japan alliance in jeopardy, former diplomat Harrison Holland argues that both sides must take bold steps to avert a catastrophe that could destabilize economic, political and security conditions in Asia.

This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect.

This second edition of the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of aging research.

This book explores Charles De Gaulle's use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969, highlighting the association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards presidentialism during the Fifth Republic.

A highly illustrated examination of the key ships, tactics and operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the War in the Pacific in World War II.

This volume is a local history, focusing on the experiences of people andcommunities as they navigated and enacted institutions and transformationsassociated with modernization in the late Ottoman era.

This book analyses how multiple and hybrid 'modernities' have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy.

This book provides a detailed account of the history, consequences, and events leading up to the 'Inkathagate Scandal' which changed the course of South African history.

This book presents contextualised and detailed research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Global South.

This book serves as an instructional tool for development of skills related to the organizational leadership of adults.

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities.

This book assesses the effectiveness of Nigeria's counterterrorist policies against Boko Haram.

An in-depth examination of one of the most frustrating and costly efforts by the US Army in the European Theater of Operations.

This book explains the parameters of Qatar's political growth by developing an alternative theory of power - 'rented' power.

This book explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin.

Offers a comprehensive survey and interpretation of contemporary Christian political theology in a newly revised and expanded edition This book presents the latest thinking on the topic of contemporary Christian political theology, with original and constructive essays that represent a range of opinions on various topics.

At the crossroads of ethics, poetics and politics, this innovative book outlines a series of notes to decolonize political theology.

In this personal healing retreat from Heather Khym, cohost of the popular Abiding Together podcast, you are invited to break through the barriers that prevent you from trusting and experiencing the deep love of Jesus and be transformed by the freedom that comes when we vulnerably bring our entire selves to the foot of the Cross.

Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism.

Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Mates and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers.

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages.

This book describes and analyzes the convergence of transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism that has taken place within Russian-speaking social networks in Western Europe.

For the first century-and-a-half of its nearly 275 year existence, the English East India Company remained ostensibly a mercantile enterprise, satisfied to simply trade, competing with other European traders.

As the final volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Western and Japanese influence on the lexicon of Modern Chinese, lexical developments in synonyms, idioms and proverbs in modern times, and lexical developments in contemporary times.

Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change.

This book is about communicating for health and social change.

Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competitors to existing SMEs.

In the late 1980s, the field of comparative economics and NATO faced a similar problem: the threat of obsolescence.

This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma.

The Handbook of Roman Catholic Moral Terms contains more than 800 moral terms, offering concise definitions, historical context, and illustrations of how these terms are used in the Catholic tradition, including Church teaching and documents.

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism.

Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs?

This thoroughly updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order.

There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse.

This Adelphi Paper examines the motives behind Libya's pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, from Gadhafi's rise to power in 1969 through to the end of 2003.

The worldwide spread, diversification, and globalization of the English language in the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has significant implications for English Language Teaching and teacher education.

Dieses Buch entstand aus Vorlesungen über das Thema "Differentialgeometrie", die der Autor wiederholt und an verschiedenen Orten gehalten hat.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis.

The London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition began excavations at Saar in 1990.

This book presents the socio-cultural and historical trajectories of the Deccan plateau as well as the coastal areas of the current states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the most significant and enduring Sunni Islamist organization of the contemporary era.

The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance.

This edited collection examines women journalists' experiences and obstacles in South Africa's (SA) democracy.

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century.