Interdisciplinary studies

This is Volume VII of sixteen of the Oriental series looking at Buddhism.

Austerity, fiscal consolidation, fiscal discipline and fiscal deficit targets have become the buzzwords of contemporary macroeconomic policy.

This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus.

The story of Hitler's Wehrmachtsgefolge (armed forces auxiliaries) is less well known than that of Germany's other armed forces in World War II, such as the panzer divisions, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

Hispanic Marketing: The Power of the New Latino Consumer focuses on using cultural insights to connect with Latino consumers.

This unique and authoritative guide describes more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections.

The ownership and funding of media organisations inevitably affects what news we receive everyday.

This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues of regional development.

This book considers communication across difference in a variety of humanistic contexts, from classical Greek literature, to continental philosophy, environmental studies, media studies, science and technology studies, animal studies, and beyond.

Among the more than 260 American submarines that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, the USS Swordfish in 1941 was the first to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship, marking the beginning of the submarine's colorful history.

The postal sector is a multi-billion dollar set of activities that touches billions of lives daily and continues to be one of the world's largest employers.

Hier ist ein Klappentext für das Buch "Frauen verbinden: Die Macht des professionellen Netzwerkens" von Jennifer C.

The Sourcebook of Nonverbal Measures provides a comprehensive discussion of research choices for investigating nonverbal phenomena.

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income.

A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and artMisko Suvakovic describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a "e;permanent state of emergency"e;.

This book examines change processes and the challenge of ambidexterity in military organizations.

In the heart of the twentieth century, the game of soccer was becoming firmly established as the sport of the masses across Europe, even as war was engulfing the continent.

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges.

This book explores the development of Lenin's thinking on violence throughout his career, from the last years of the Tsarist regime in Russia through to the 1920s and the New Economic Policy, and provides an important assessment of the significance of ideological factors for understanding Soviet state violence as directed by the Bolshevik leadership during its first years in power.

Religious freedom as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains a perennial concern across the globe.

Analysing an extensive range of texts and publications across multiple genres, formats and literary lineages, Reclaiming Karbala studies the emergence and formation of a viable Muslim identity in Bengal over the late-19th century through the 1940s.

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography.

This book provides an avenue for students to explore the Nile-the world's longest river-and better understand its larger role in society in the past, present, and future.

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.

Reflecting on gender issues, including violence, justice and social protection, and the means to attain gender equality and social justice, this new volume explores women and gender as an intersection between social, political, and economic issues faced by societies.

This book illuminates the experiences of a set of students and faculty who are members of the Dalit caste - commonly known as the 'untouchables' - and are relatively 'successful' in that they attend or are academics at a prestigious university.

Nowhere in the world is the demand for peace more prominent and challenging than in Africa.

This book recounts the World War II journeys of a soldier, a ship, and a bottle of spirits through, and around, five great turning-point battles.

This volume looks into the ways Indian Ocean routes shaped the culture and contours of early modern India.

In this book, leading scholars working on urban South Asia chart new forms of literature about contemporary Delhi.

This collective volume - with contributions from experts on these regions - examines broader questions about the current crises (The Great Recession and The Commodity Crisis) and the associated changes in political representation in both regions.

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare.

This edited volume offers diverse and comprehensive views of China's rise and its implications to the East Asian region and beyond.

This book focuses on recent technical advancements and state-of-the art technologies for analyzing characteristic features and probabilistic modelling of complex social networks and decentralized online network architectures.

Air Transport and Regional Development Methodologies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive, adapt, expand, and contract through the interaction of myriad components.

This book analyses the possibilities and limitations that sub-national actors face when developing diplomatic activities in the Arctic region.

This accessible and thought-provoking book considers what beginning teachers need to know about learning, teaching, assessment, curriculum and professional development, in the context of teaching mathematics to eleven to nineteen year olds.

Limited Responsibilities explores the interaction between the criminal justice system and the wider concerns of political and social institutions, including the welfare state, social work and forensic psychiatry.

For some time there has been a strong need in the plastic and related industries for a detailed, practical book on designing with plastics and composites (reinforced plastics).

The first-ever comprehensive analysis of its kind in any western language, this unique volume provides a social art history of Yungang: a 5th-century rock-cut court cave complex, UNESCO World Heritage site, and one of the greatest Buddhist monuments of all time.

First published in 1999, this volume follows the interactions between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), which had adopted more revolutionary strategies after their banning in 1960, over the period 1983-87.

This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990.

The relationship between the innovative behavior and the minority status, gender, and immigration status of, for example, owners, directors, principal investigators, and project managers has only begun to be explored, especially within and among entrepreneurial organizations.

This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society.

This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.