Interdisciplinary studies

This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866-1938), considered the embodiment of 'classicism' in Karnatik music.

This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India.

The author of this study of policymaking in postwar Japan contends that the prevailing perceptions of the subject advanced to date are inadequate.

This book explores hitherto unaddressed dimensions in federalism studies in India.

Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession.

An illustrated account of the infamous Me 262 and its pilots in the dark days of 1945, containing previously unseen photographs.

Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards?

Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters.

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando the special squads, composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide.

Working in 1970s Italy, a group of artists-namely Ugo La Pietra, Maurizio Nannucci, Francesco Somaini, Mauro Staccioli, Franco Summa, and Franco Vaccari-sought new spaces to create and exhibit art.

This symposium explores Chinese people-management as an academic subject, looking at where it is currently going and the likely direction of its progress.

This interdisciplinary, international collection examines how sophisticated digital practices and technologies exploit and capitalize on emotions, with particular focus on how social media are used to exacerbate social conflicts surrounding racism, misogyny, and nationalism.

This book focuses on strategies for developing consumer markets in Africa using concepts and techniques from marketing, entrepreneurship, and project management.

As China continues to ride out the global economic crisis while still retaining year on year GDP growth it is increasingly important to understand how this 'new' economic giant, with its communist-capitalist model operates its economic and business environments.

Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perceptions of gender on which the 'gender and achievement' debates are based.

This book contributes to our understanding of the trajectories and prerogatives of female political leaders in the varying context of democratization, political institutions and cultural norms.

Since the energy crisis of 1973, the political, economic, and strategic importance of the Persian Gulf to U.

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization.

Is religion inherently predisposed to violence?

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.

The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity.

Combining practical 'how to' skills with reflection on the place of each specialism in the industry, this guide features the skills needed to cover specialist areas, including writing match reports for sport, reviewing the arts, and dealing with complex information for science.

This book will provide readers with an understanding of the employability concept and develop an employability skills improvement model to enhance the employability of built environment graduates to foster economic development.

This much-needed resource offers insight into building and maintaining satisfying and successful stepfamily relationships.

This book provides insights into how new ventures in emerging economies and developing countries generate social innovation.

How does a smart organization model enable self-governments to lead local and regional development in a sustainable and resilient manner?

Computational economics has been at the forefront in stimulating the de- velopment of mathematical methodologies for the analysis and solution of complex, large-scale problems.

Die Demokratie – verstanden als politische Selbstbestimmung eines Volkes – ist die vornehmste Aufgabe und der zentrale Gegenstand der Politischen Theorie.

This book, first published in 1972, describes a Kuwait normally hidden to the eyes of visitors.

This book explores representations of social media in European media discourses across different socio-historical contexts, demonstrating how such analysis can illuminate the tension between global and local in media discourses in today's globalised world.

This book provides in-depth comparative studies of the two largest cities and metropolitan areas in the United States: New York City and Los Angeles.

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Im Alter von 17 Jahren wurde Ernst Israel Bornstein von den deutschen Besatzern zur Zwangsarbeit verschleppt.

This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices.

How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs.

Since its inception, the field of political ecology has served as a critical hub for inclusive and transformative environmental inquiry.

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world.

Daghestan is home to more than 30 distinct peoples.

Seitdem man erkannt hat, in welchem Ausmaß der unaufhaltsame Fortschritt wissen­ schaftlicher Forschung an den beunruhigenden Verwandlungen auf allen Gebieten mensch­ lichen Daseins beteiligt ist, die insgesamt begonnen haben, eine globale Kulturmetamor­ phose zu bewirken, darf und muß die Wissenschaft, unbeschadet ihres an sich apolitischen Charakters, als ein Politikum begriffen werden; jenseits aller ideologischen Programme fordert dieses überparteiliche Politikum angesichts rivalisierender Konkurrenzen unmittel­ bar zur Sicherung und Steigerung wirtschaftlicher und kultureller Existenzen heraus.

Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism.

This book studies the multi-dimensional development and landscapes of the internationalization of China's higher education throughout the past four decades, illustrating its trajectory from the periphery to the centre of the global higher education system.

Preventing War and Promoting Peace focuses on how health professionals can actively engage in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.