Interdisciplinary studies

This book aims to present implications for China's urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social synergic development.

How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube?

This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives and actions of the government; 2) a good governance standpoint that exposes lapses in health governance and the general unpreparedness of the government and international community to deal with the outbreak; 3) a scientific research standpoint that looks at the role played by the Sierra Leone's Lassa Fever Research Laboratories as a main hub for the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of communicable diseases in the Mano River Union countries; and 4) an international politics standpoint that examines the development of a new bio-security international apparatus involving a wide range of international actors and institutions.

After 1945 it was not just Europe's parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new democratic attitudes and feelings.

Over the last decade or so, academic and non-academic observers have focussed mainly, if not exclusively on the institutions and places of formal power in the Greater Middle East, depicting politics in the region as a small area limited to local authoritarian rulers.

First published in 1998 , Sun investigates the ramifications foreign investment has had on China over 1979 to 1996.

The tone and texture of the language of media have changed considerably due to the rapid expansion of media in recent times and advancements in communication technologies.

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the pervasiveness of digital media into our everyday lives is undermining cherished notions of politics and ethics.

Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction is the first accessible volume to systematically examine the relationship between religion and conspiracy theories in the contemporary world in critical and historical perspective.

In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world.

This interdisciplinary collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of discourse, conceptualizing how discursive practices shape social, political, and even material realities today.

Let the Holy Family be your light through Advent as you receive the healing power of Christ.

This book provides students and researchers with a resource that includes the current application of the multi-criteria decision theory in a variety of fields, including the environment, health care, engineering, and architecture.

Explores Auschwitz's construction, revealing architectural plans and documents that expose the SS's role in orchestrating genocide.

This book explores the representations of Central and Eastern European histories in digital games.

This volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication.

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

This book offers comparative ontologies of both Islam and liberalism as discourses more broadly construed.

The internet and the web are among the largest human-made technological artefacts ever created.

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Changing News Use pulls from empirical research to introduce and describehow changing news user patterns and journalism practices have beenmutually disruptive, exploring what journalists and the news media canlearn from these changes.

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Because You Are Mine, The Affair and Make Me - Behind the Curtain is a seductive standalone romance, perfect for fans of E.

Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair's illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and applied in a global political system where they no longer hold sway.

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy.

This book discusses the growing media engagement between China and Africa from the point of view of both these regions.

In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible.

Since 1972, the journal Radical Philosophy has provided a forum for the discussion of radical and critical ideas in philosophy.

Medienskepsis ist in demokratischen Gesellschaften weit verbreitet.

Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

Bringing together theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the European Social Model (ESM) and transitional labour market policy, this volume contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets.

This book explores the determination of China's carbon emission targets, especially with regard to the allocation of responsibility of China's import and export carbon emissions, and carbon emission quota allocations across different time periods, industries, and regions.

Anknüpfend an Beschreibungen von Medienrezeption als „Quasi-Erfahrung“, „stellvertretende Erfahrung“ oder „Ersatz-Erfahrung“ ist die These von Felix Frey, dass Medienrezeptionsprozesse sich in ihrer Ähnlichkeit zur menschlichen Primärerfahrung unterscheiden.

This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries.

In this 2002 book, the author describes how the Indian economy works and whether liberalisation has actually helped ordinary Indians.

This book explores modern Islamic terrorism in the context of globalization and cultural evolution.

Russian businesses in the post-Soviet period have been noted for their unusual, sometimes allegedly corrupt, business practices, and for their role in the enrichment of oligarchs.

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.

Making European Muslims provides an in-depth examination of what it means to be a young Muslim in Europe today, where the assumptions, values and behavior of the family and those of the majority society do not always coincide.

This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system over the past three decades, including the globalisation of finance, the debt crisis of the 1980s and the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.

The sterling work of the Fifteenth Air Force is often overshadowed by the glamorous 'Mighty Eighth', yet the men flying the B-24 fought ceaselessly right through to VE Day.

The Maginot Line was one of the most advanced networks of fortifications in history.

Do we have the rights to optimism?