Interdisciplinary studies

Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Representation and Content offers, for the first time, an extensive study of the way our life is represented in advertising.

Revisits Australian rock band silverchair's globally successful debut album Frogstomp (1995) and asserts that the band is not an imitation of American grunge nor an emblem of Gen X angst.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked.

This book draws on a range of theoretical foundations, approaches and management practices that are culturally and jurisdictionally appropriate in several Muslim countries.

On the back of their last book, Cyber-risk and Youth, and building on a new research project, Adorjan and Ricciardelli marshal current research to explore parenting in the digital age.

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space.

Abu'l-Barakat is often considered one of the most comprehensive philosophers of the Arabic-Jewish milieu in the medieval age.

Faced with significant security challenges, in recent years Japan and South Korea have both sought to raise their international profile through peacebuilding, development, humanitarian assistance, and human security.

In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim.

This book is not intended to give a full and comprehensive account of the Mesozoic mammals, and nor is it intended as a handbook for research workers studying pre-Tertiary mammals.

As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology, this title investigates the quintessential characteristics of the Chinese narrative style, with a focus on image and perspective.

This book explores the relationship between Islamism, secularism and violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa.

During World War II's battle for control of the Mediterranean, both the British and Italian navies planned to bring their battle fleets into play.

This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of world-systemic migration as a racialized process.

Triple bottom line (TBL or 3BL) was coined as a wide and inspiring approach for businesses aimed at understanding how to create, track, and manage economic, social, and environmental values added.

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education.

This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia.

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians of science, the Chinese imperial Astronomical Bureau, which for two millennia observed, recorded, interpreted and predicted the movements of the celestial bodies.

This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries, namely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, and Palestine.

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Low external-input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture.

Nigeria has not evolved political formulas that explicitly allow religion or religious authorities to define legitimacy.

This book offers a conceptual framework for the critical understanding of the present socio-environmental conflicts.

"e;This book is a search for 'the real Anandibai Joshee' -- a search in which the readers are invited to participate.

Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as alternatives to the measures of transitional justice in want of national unity.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits.

For the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1954, two southern zones of Bantu have been included - south of the Zambesi and east of the Kalahari.

Police personnel have increasingly been deployed outside their own domestic jurisdictions to uphold law and order and to help rebuild states.

Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset.

The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy.

Wie entstand komplexes Leben – bis hin zum Menschen – aus der ersten Zelle?

An account of Germany's little known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942.

The year 2009 will be pivotal for Earth's climate.

The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once synonymous around the globe with political violence.

Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space.

Im Zentrum des vielschichtigen, allen Aspekten der Geistesgeschichte zugewandten Diltheyschen Denkens stehen die konsequente Besinnung auf die Geschichtlichkeit des Menschen und der Aufweis der erkenntnistheoretischen Eigenständigkeit der Geisteswissenschaften.

The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century.

Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro offers a critical new perspective on the emerging phenomenon of the global suburb in the western hemisphere.