Interdisciplinary studies

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy.

In 2014-15, the Ethiopian government, together with many academics and observers, was surprised by the outbreak of anti-government protests, as large-scale public contestation of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) had been largely absent in the regime's history.

The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period.

Neither women's studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical or political base for lesbian scholarship.

Jeannine Scher was born in Paris in February 1935.

This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV after the events of 9/11.

Liberal democracies are predicated on popular sovereignty - the ideal of government for and by the People.

Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences.

Dieses Lehrbuch will, von Beobachtungen und physikalischen Meßergebnissen ausgehend, das Verständnis der physikalischen Grundgesetze anschaulich vermitteln.

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged.

This NATO Advanced Study Institute was the fourth in a series devoted to the subject of phase transitions and instabilities with particular attention to structural phase transforma~ions.

Fairness of wage distribution - or the perception of such - is a phenomenon crucial for the stability of new democracies.

Animus, Psyche and Culture takes Carl Jung's concept of contra-sexual psyche and locates it within the cultural expanse of India, using ethnographic narratives, history, religion, myth, films, biographical extracts to deliberate on the feminine in psychological, social and archetypal realms.

This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment.

Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach.

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die empirische Überprüfung mehrdimensionaler kausaler Erklärungen, ihre Abbildung als Kausalmodelle und die notwendigen Schritte zu ihrer Formalisierung.

La Universidad se encuentra en pleno progreso desde su tiempo cero; de hecho, halla su carta de naturaleza en la necesidad de mejorar el medio que la nutre y por y para el que existe: la sociedad.

This 2004 book explores myths of the underworld in Plato, Aristophanes, and the ''Orphic'' gold tablets.

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world.

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students.

Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate.

Even up to the eve of the civil war, some observers saw the Lebanese system as essentially stable, and exhibiting some of the virtues of liberty and pluralism which had been commended by the French traveller de Volney a century before.

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "e;Francia,"e; through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past.

Originally published between 1981 and 1990 the volumes in this set: Examine the relationship between bilateral foreign aid and multilateral foreign aid.

This is the first biography of Capt.

This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field.

This book, first published in 1981, is an analysis of the Soviet Union's military strategy, taking in both sides of the 'hawks' and 'doves' views of the USSR's intentions.

For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today's China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wenyan ?

The story of the second major amphibious landing in France in 1944, which built upon the lessons learned from D-Day.

The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled.

This book explores the differing treatment of Russian minorities in the non-Russian republics which seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

In Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu, the writer studies Liang Shiqiu (1903-1987), who was not only a famous writer and important critic but also one of the most prominent translators in China in the 20th century, most notably the first Chinese to finish a translation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Asia.

This book draws on author's wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries.

No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of World War II.

In 1987 South Korea began a democratic transition after almost three decades of significant economic development under authoritarian rule.

The volume gives a multi-perspective overview of scholarly and science communication, exploring its diverse functions, modalities, interactional structures, and dynamics in a rapidly changing world.

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades.

This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two.

The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens.

Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals?

Documentary filmmaking is one of the most vibrant areas of media activity in the Chinese world, with many independent filmmakers producing documentaries that deal with a range of sensitive socio-political problems, bringing to their work a strongly ethical approach.

This book makes an original contribution to Russia-EU literature by analyzing constructions and trans-formations of the Russian 'Self' in relation to the European "e;Other"e;.

An evocative, candid reveal of the media and design worlds by an award-winning journalist and activist urban planner in search of the soul of cities and himself.