Interdisciplinary studies

This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia's deep dependency on the US is incompatible with democracy and the security of the country.

Egyptian education is a central, social and economic force in the Middle East.

The tank battles in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 were the largest in World War II, exceeding even the more famous Prokhorovka encounter during the Kursk campaign.

This title examines Sub-Saharan Africa's relations with states such as the US, India, China, the EU, and Britain as well as with non-state actors.

World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history.

Civil wars with multiple combatants last longer and are harder to resolve.

George Abraham Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages.

"e;Metaphor studies"e; has over the past 30 years become a discipline in its own right, mainly because of the cognitive linguistic claim that metaphors characterize thought, not just language.

This book brings together empirical research and conceptual work on textbooks and education media from 13 countries and 17 disciplines.

This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via political, economic, and cognitive appropriation.

In recent decades, much of youth research in Chinese societies has sought to understand the transformation of the younger generation and their social environment in the context of globalization, deindustrialization and economic insecurity.

This book examines new policies for accelerating India's economic growth.

Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "e;normal"e; and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.

This book examines the changing relations between the Asian part of the Middle East and the rest of the continent during the 21st century.

Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of globalizing forces.

Unique and insightful, this book takes a look at Russia's development through the Tsarist and Soviet periods.

Prominent intellectuals and public figures explore the dynamics of development, offering varying perspectives from a range of fields.

In the first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Bryce Evans reveals the real story of the Irish emergency.

Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists is written to inform, instruct and inspire journalists on the investigative possibilities offered by the Freedom of Information Act.

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk.

Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of mobility studies developed in Brazil.

This book explores the potential of social media as a space for teaching and bringing about sustainable peace.

';I believe we all carry grief that has gone unnamed and unmourned,' writes best-selling author Christine Valters Paintner.

First published in 2002.

Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India's electoral democracy and political system.

Distributed on behalf of the University of Florida College of Journalism and CommunicationsRae O.

This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers.

Erforschung und Analyse des Gleichgewichts bzw.

This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts.

WhatsApp is used by over half a billion people in India today in all fields - in business, corporate and informal sectors, in government, for education and among friends, families and acquaintances.

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics.

This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

This book examines the land question in neoliberal India based on a cohesive framework focusing on socio-legal and judicial interactions in a point of departure from the political-economy approach to land issues.

This book is the first full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, demonstrating the centrality of Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music and their interaction with classical Persian poetry and metrics.

As regionalisation becomes an increasingly hot topic, the authors explain why regionalism has been most successful in Latin America and analyse current processes and opinions of possible future developments in the region, including the Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, and Mexico.

This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets.

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development.

Youth Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an interdisciplinary effort to position and describe the contested nature of state and ethnic identity among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina by providing empirical, first-hand evidence on identity structure and the subsequent implications for inter-group relations.

An in-depth account of EU policies in the area of public service broadcasting, focusing mainly on the application of the European State aid rules.

Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, ''Why don''t people just say what they mean?

This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa.

This book provides a history of the ethnic persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and their disputed ethnic and national identity.