Interdisciplinary studies

This reader presents case studies from a number of sources that illustrate the mutual, reciprocal impact of technology on one hand and the social sciences, including government policy, on the other.

The success of the book Soils and the Environment imagination in the applications of soil surveys, illustrates the need for further, more detailed toward the end of improving productivity and information about soil survey interpretations (uses efficiency in the use of soils and the environment.

A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century.

This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central Europe.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades.

The US-Pakistan ties have historically fluctuated due to third-party involvement.

"e;I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me.

Most of the articles in this volume belong to what can be described as the preparatory work which is prerequisite to the study of pre- and early Islamic history.

This book is based upon contributions to a Scandinavian conference on Transport, Agriculture and the Environment in a Regional and National Development Per- spective: Quantitative and Modelling Approaches, organised by AKF, the Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark, which was held on the Danish island of Bornholm in December 1993.

Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this volume examines the roles strategic communications play in creating social media messaging campaigns designed to engage in digital activism.

First published in 1937, India captures the tense and tumultuous developments in India that would eventually result in her freedom a decade later.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws.

The Crookenden brothers – Henry, Napier and Spencer - were born into a military dynasty.

Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown.

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on the political and social perspectives that commons offer, how they are appropriated or suppressed by capital and state, and how social initiatives and movements contest these dynamics or build their struggles on commoning.

Few economic events have caused such controversy as the privatization process in Russia.

On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France.

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives.

Learn how to better address the needs of the homelessThe causes of homelessness are complex and varied.

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity.

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises.

While World War II raged, pioneering aircraft and engine designers were busy developing the world's first practical jet-powered research aircraft to test and prove the new technology.

This book looks at migration through the lens of the Partition of India in 1947.

Religious Diversity examines whether believing in a religion''s truth increases intolerance and how the existence (and growth) of multiple religions affects political societies.

Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey's south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey's approximately 20 million Kurds live.

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy.

Mammalian sociobiology is a rapidly advancing field which has made enormous strides in the last ten years.

This book looks at developmental pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support economic transformation and participation of the poor in growth processes.

This issue of Trends in Communication will inspire researchers to take up the matter of convergence as a topic for research.

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "e;economy,"e; that is, of a government of men and things?

Wasser, Wasserressourcen und Wasserwirtschaft sind heute mit die schwierigsten, nicht-traditionellen und grenzuberschreitenden Sicherheitsprobleme uberhaupt.

This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition.

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability of housing, or the lack thereof, going beyond conventional policy discussions to consider fundamental questions such as: What makes housing affordable and for whom is it affordable?

The political and economic geography of Europe is changing - the European Community is expanding its boundaries towards EFTA and is resuming a closer association with Central and Eastern European regions engaged in radical restructuring.

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute.

A fantastic book, one of the very finest accounts of wartime spookery (The Wall Street Journal)a spellbinding adventure story of four secret OSS agents who would all later lead the CIA and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe from the author of the bestselling Wild Bill Donavan.

The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern.

Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked.

This volume investigates how international students in and from the Middle East are constructed by nations, institutions, other students, and themselves.

The decline of the Mughal Empire, the political ascendency of the British East India Company, a number of revivalist powers (the Sikhs, the Marathas, the Rohillas, etc.

Foundational and accessible, this book equips pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, tools, and resources they need to help students in grades 4-12 develop reading proficiencies in four core academic subjects-literature, history, science, and mathematics.

Using textual analysis, interviews with game designers, audience surveys, and close analysis of player forum discussion, this book examines the unique nature of the producer/consumer relationship within promotional Alternate Reality Games (ARGs).

This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state and globalization.

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences.

This volume addresses the imperative need for recognizing, exploring, and developing the role of multilingual communication in crisis settings.