Interdisciplinary studies

This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools.

This book addresses the question of how researchers can conduct independent, ethical research on mal-, mis- and disinformation in a rapidly changing and hostile data environment.

Explores the contrasting fates of Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley and General Douglas MacArthur, revealing the often-overlooked sacrifices of Bulkeley's PT boat crew during a heroic yet controversial rescue from the Philippines in World War II.

Provocative and original, The Politics of Indigeneity explores the concept of indigeneity across the world - from the Americas to New Zealand, Africa to Asia - and the ways in which it intersects with local, national and international social and political realities.

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day.

This book provides an analysis of the construction, diagnosis (as chaotic) and evaluation of models in chaos theory.

This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "e;public,"e; helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services.

Bringing together leading scholars from around the world and across scholarly disciplines, this collection of 32 original chapters provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationships between cities and media.

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.

The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction.

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector.

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal-industrial complex-the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalised exploitation of animals.

From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide.

When the arts, culture, and entertainment industries came to a halt in late winter 2020, many claimed this was the end of art as we knew it.

International trade continues to expand robustly in East Asia and elsewhere, but global trade negotiations have collapsed and globalization is widely criticized.

The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism.

This book presents a collection of latest case studies on augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR) and metaverse applications in various industries.

Skinheads go beyond the societal stereotype of hate mongers, bigots, and Neo-Nazis.

Originally published in 1991.

This volume offers the first systematic comparison of political change, leadership style and stability in Central Asia.

Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.

This book examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland.

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D.

How does university turn students into who they become?

This book is an exciting addition to a gap in non-Western genre studies of African fiction.

Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous.

Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation.

Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to recapture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially 'severe' loss of life and the widespread destruction to the property of the British citizens.

This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo - Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo - and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950.

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age.

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism.

This book addresses issues of how the cultures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia have been Englishized in postcolonial and globcalized contexts, not just in terms of language, but also in writers'/people's subjectivity.

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?

Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of Appliable Linguistics.

First Published in 1988.

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia offers a broad, analytical survey of Malaysia.

This book identifies the root causes of income inequality in underdeveloped economies and proposes new solutions for structural reform in economies that have long neglected and exploited working people.

Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not.

What does it mean to be marginalized?

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities.

Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement.

This Element offers a new approach to the feminist historiography of printing as letterpress moves into a digital age.

The discourse of 'green growth' has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals.