Interdisciplinary studies

This book examines how intimate relationships are built, negotiated and maintained through social media.

First Published in 2005.

The First Enigma Codebreaker is the story of a man who started a revolution in cryptology and the conflict between man and machine.

Semiotics concepts from a design perspective, offering the foundation for a coherent theory of graphic design as well as conceptual tools for practicing designers.

The Solo Video Journalist, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the solo video reporting process from start to finish.

After Japan's defeat in August 1945, some Japanese children were abandoned in China and raised by Chinese foster parents.

Nine specialists from four continents address the following questions: is China moving toward the type of developmental state and sophisticated economic powerhouse associated with the East Asian miracle?

Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family examines the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game (HRG) Pokemon Go on the relationship between parents and their children.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the primary players, acts, motivations, and methods of the Army of God in their quest to make abortion illegal in the United States.

Recently, sustainability has become a focal point for companies across all sizes and sector, and the luxury industry is no exception.

Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings.

Usage of the political keyword 'propaganda' by the Chinese Communist Party has changed and expanded over time.

Catholics, Peasants, and Chewa Resistance in Nyasaland examines the complex interplay between Catholic missionaries, indigenous Chewa communities, and colonial powers in Malawi during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the "e;globalization of motherhood"e;.

Contains an Open Access chapter.

Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence.

The CityForm consortium's latest book, Dimensions of the Sustainable City, is the first book to report on an empirical multi-disciplinary study specifically designed to address urban sustainability.

This book examines the outcome of the British commitment to reconstitute a sovereign Polish state and establish a democratic Polish government after the Second World War.

Die Veranstaltungswirtschaft hat sich nach dem Lockdown auf den Weg zu einem „New Normal“ begeben, in dem Live- und digitale Kommunikation eng verbunden sind.

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "e;the public"e; - those on the receiving end of education - to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it.

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.

The Textbook seeks for an innovative approach to Sustainability Communication as transdisciplinary area of research.

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture.

First published in 1984, Michael Redclift's book makes the global environmental crisis a central concern of political economy and its structural causes a central concern of environmentalism.

In global consumer culture, brands structure an economy of symbolic exchange that gives value to the meanings consumers attach to the brand name, logo, and product category.

The Land Registration Act 2002 has been in force for almost fifteen years.

This book examines women's experiences in Britain during the Second World War, drawing on women's own memories and archival sources.

This book analyses the trade relationship between Bangladesh and Japan, including foreign investments and foreign aid by Japan to Bangladesh.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past two hundred years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism, and propaganda.

The use of numbers to condense complex systems into easily digested 'bites' of information is very much in fashion.

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments.

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.

A definitive technical guide to the Avro Lancaster, complete with accurate specifications, detailed illustrations and stunning photographs.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-majority region of Azerbaijan.

The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance and discrimination.

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international diplomacy, and the challenges and opportunities it presents for the future of multilateralism.

An array of case studies exploring evolving tax policy and economic development in Pacific Asian countries.

Vietnam has enjoyed significant economic success since the implementation of its "e;doi moi"e; reforms, including rapid growth in GDP, exports and foreign and domestic investment, and a shedding of poorly-performing state-owned enterprises.

This book is a one-stop comprehensive guide to geographical inquiry.

Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries in a period of great global change traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation in both familiar and unexpected ways.

A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years this volume examines the history, economy, politics and society of Japan from just before the First World War until 1926.

The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union - where the goals and values of Marxism-Leninism and the particular institutions, the form of economy and polity, were first adopted and developed.

Our planet is under siege.

At a time when many regions of the world, including Europe, see a resurgence of authoritarianism, three countries of Eastern Europe - Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova - are struggling to counter this trend with the aim of developing European-style democracies in the framework of their Association Agreements with the European Union.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.

Valenty, Feldman, and their contributors challenge the current state of political leadership studies by offering a variety of analytical methods from scholars around the world.