Interdisciplinary studies

This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways.

When data consist of grouped observations or clusters, and there is a risk that measurements within the same group are not independent, group-specific random effects can be added to a regression model in order to account for such within-group associations.

Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war?

Peels back the actual and contextual layers of Walt Disney’s inspiration and vision for Disney World in central Florida, exploring the reasons why the resort has emerged as such a prominent sociocultural force.

First Published in 2005.

Hong Kong faces a new, or renewed, set of challenges linked to the up-grading of human resources, shifts in industrial structure, and emerging market demands.

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice.

Essential reading for understanding genre innovation and evolution in relation to Web 2.

Vision geht weiter als die Aufnahme optischer Reize aus der realen Welt oder die gedankliche Vorstellung von etwas Sichtbarem, das man sich vor Augen führt: Sie umfasst die innere interpretative Transformation des wie auch immer »Gesehenen« in eine gegenwartsbezogene Erscheinung oder in eine zukunftsbezogene Vorstellung.

Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in the early nineteenth century.

Chinese state banks, which were considered technically insolvent in the 1990s, are at present among the largest and most important banks in the world.

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.

First published in 2004.

Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.

Our understanding of nature, and in particular of physics and the laws governing it, has changed radically since the days of the ancient Greek natural philosophers.

Janina Klingelhofer deconstructs the development of the scientific field of crisis communication through the lens of the sociology of knowledge.

This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and practice in seven major areas of airline planning and operations.

This book traces the journey of Mahatma Gandhi, from being a simple and truth-seeking human being, a satyarthi, to a committed, conscious and social human being, a satyagrahi.

As signifying creatures, we fear the false creation 'signifying nothing' because, like Macbeth, we think of them as daggers of the mind that raise questions about the reality of our signs, about signs as tools of creation and power, about the dark terrors (and lighter joys) that exist in human desire, and about the signs and the mind.

This book addresses the true 'landscape' perspective approach that archaeologists in Italy, and in many parts of the Mediterranean, use to study the archaeology of landscapes, marking a departure from the traditional site-based approach.

In To Be an Actress, Nava Shean tells about her life on the stage: from children's theater in Prague to traveling theater in the Czech countryside, to performances of prisoners in Terezin concentration camp, to Israel's national theater, Munich State theater, and her one-woman shows.

Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure.

Designing an Innovative Pedagogy for Sustainable Development in Higher EducationThis book develops a "e;green pedagogy"e; and an innovation mindset in higher education by using approaches based on innovative design thinking, arts-based practices, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship for sustainable development.

This volume is the first to bring together music scholars working on Baltic topics from throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East for the purpose of exploring the impact of Nazi and Soviet occupation (1940-91) and the restoration of republican independence upon the production of musicological knowledge in and about the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Marketing practitioners have begun to target gays and lesbians as consumers, although little is known about their buying behavior, expectations in consumption, or of their treatment in the marketplace.

This book brings together essays on North East India from across disciplines to explore new understandings of the colonial and contemporary realities of the region.

Outlines the political pressures that have shaped the writing and interpretation of modern world history in post-1949 China, and assesses the impact of these pressures and political themes through three case studies: the 17th-century English revolution, the Paris Commune, and the treatment of the Th

This grammar has been written to help the student to think in the Japanese way.

Scholarship on Iraq under the Ba'th regime has traditionally focused on the rule of Saddam Hussein and his narrow inner circle.

This book looks at how people in the semi-arid conditions of the Sahel cope with their harsh environment.

It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science.

Is Japan abandoning its pacifism?

This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law.

In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitlers other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest.

Central Asian Survey has remained as the premier world-leading peer-reviewed journal for Central Asian studies for four decades.

A monarch is usually born, a member of parliament or a president is usually elected, but a regional leader in China is usually orchestrated to replace his or her predecessor through an opaque process and for reasons not normally made public.

China's economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries.

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations.

"e;Critical Ethnography is a rare and beautiful synthesis of deft theorizing and principled pragmatics.

This invaluable resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the German war machine that overran much of Europe during World War II, with close to 300 entries on a variety of topics and a number of key primary source documents.

This new edition of the casebook includes extensive excerpts from 25 major decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States in media law or related to media law.

The aim of this book is to persuade the reader that the Indian caste system is not the isolated phenomenon it is often thought to be.

"e;Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.

This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing.

International Development is a comprehensive inquiry into the field of socio-economic development founded on an understanding that economic advancement involves transformation of society.

Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine and health development.

This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics.