Interdisciplinary studies

Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language.

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A vibrant, growing movement of radical protest is sweeping North America in opposition to high-stakes capitalism and the appalling environmental desecration that accompanies it.

Edward Snowden's revelations about the mass surveillance capabilities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other security services triggered an ongoing debate about the relationship between privacy and security in the digital world.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Commmunist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise.

This book delves into the intricate dynamics between economic elites and the political party system in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, particularly during their democratization phases in the twentieth century.

In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently.

This book explores the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) military, its impact on local society, and its many legacies for Chinese society.

In the past, as in the present, science has explored the reasons for belief.

In writing this monograph, the aim has been to consider the mechanical properties of the wide range of materials now available in such a way as to start with the fundamental nature of these properties and to follow the discussion through to the point at which the reader is able to comprehend the significance or otherwise of the large amounts of data now available in design manuals and other compilations.

Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today.

This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies.

With digital media becoming ever more prevalent, it is essential to study policy and marketing strategies tailored to this new development.

Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain.

Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape.

This study presents details about the life and philosophy of the founder of Buddhism, Prince Gautama of India or the Buddha, in the form of a poem as told from an imaginary Buddhist character.

Tsong kha pa (14th-century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics.

This book covers many aspects of innovation theory, evolutionary economics, economic geography, and simulation models.

The book speaks to the need for a regulatory framework with regards to space resource utilization.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

Do you wish there was a more practical way to live your faith in the midst of a busy life?

In Kazakhstan, the oil industry plays a crucial role in its economic and political life due to the country's considerable oil revenues and accompanying conflicting interests.

Originally published in French as Le territoire europeen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has seen in the past half century.

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

Human sex trafficking is believed to the most common form of modern day slavery.

This book examines China's response to the Asian financial crisis of 1997, both in its immediate aftermath and in the years since.

Rap and Politics maps out fifty years of political and musical development by exploring three specific moments of local discourse, each a response to failures by local, state, and national governments to address police brutality, violence, poverty, and poor social conditions in Oakland, California and the surrounding Bay Area.

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Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera.

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe.

"e;This book will find a place with the world War II remembrances of Tom Brokaw and Stephen Ambrose and the film Saving Private Ryan .

With some 7000 entries in each language, this dictionary, first published in 1986, gives clear and comprehensive coverage of all vocabulary areas connected with defence, for military personnel and for anyone who is directly or indirectly involved in military technology.

The distorted view of the perfect female body created by popular culture, television, movies, and the media often causes women to become uncomfortable with their own bodies.

This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role.

The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major developments underpinning globalization.

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876-1910) embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876-1910) after the opening of the so-called Hermit Nation in describing the Korean language and missionary works.

A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.

This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West.

At the close of the year 1900, motor vehicle registrations throughout the United States totaled 8000.

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric.

This case study examines emigrants from Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern caroline islands of Micronesia, in the Western pacific.