Interdisciplinary studies

Winner of a third-place award in the healing and self-help category from the Catholic Media Association.

Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive.

Presenting the results of seventeen months of field research, conducted entirely in the Thai language, this study describes and compares the patterns of social exchange of two groups of Thai officials: district-level bureaucrats and physicians in a provincial hospital.

Examines the crucial role of the Hashemites in Arab nationalism throughout the 20th century, from the 1916 Arab Revolt through the creation of Arab states after World War I, the attempts at Arab unity, and the establishment of two kingdoms, to the current Palestinian debate.

This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s.

Utilizing the principle of reciprocity, Reciprocity and China's Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses analyses the past, present and future of the law of international watercourses with a particular focus on China.

This book investigates the ubuntu theory-based conception of virtue and moral character formation in the northern, western, and eastern regions of Africa, suggesting a critical reconstruction of ubuntu by conceptualising the four different forms of practices in moral character formation.

Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time.

The T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology is a comprehensive reference resource informed by serious theological scholarship in the three Abrahamic traditions.

Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance?

This book originated from my Publisher's request for anew, concise account of PVC plastics in terms of their nature, properties, process- ing, and applications.

This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging.

Redefining the concept of new media in China, this cutting edge book discusses the impact of social media on Chinese public life.

Over the 20th century, Morocco has become one of the world's major emigration countries.

A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries.

This book answers a number of fundamental questions about listening in coaching and mentoring.

The basis for this additional volume are the three volumes of the handbooks Dictionaries.

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms.

First Published 1970, Muscovy presents a lively and amusing selection of travellers' tales from the most important of old and rare books.

This inspiring book addresses a topic that is far too often ignored or disregarded by sci-tech librarians: Exactly how do scientists and engineers really discover, select, and use the countless information and communications resources available to them when conducting research?

Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton's formidable 2008 presidential campaign, Women for President analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872.

A study of the development of modern medical health services in Palestine until 1948 and in Israel, this book focuses on the interaction of state policy, class relations, voluntary organizations, and professional practice as they affect the level of participation of Arabs in the emergent health system.

Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises accessible grammar exercises in a single volume.

This book seeks to show the role of sustainability and innovation in the business and productive sector as good strategy to improve performance and contribute to growth and sustainable development through innovative strategies applied to the management process.

This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies.

Wirtschaftliches Handeln findet heute zunehmend im internationalen Kontext statt und überschreitet dabei mehrfach Ländergrenzen, was sich immer deutlicher in den alltäglichen Wertschöpfungsprozessen von Unternehmen niederschlägt.

Unlike most other sociology or social science dictionaries, in this translation of the Critical Dictionary of Sociology, taken from the second French edition of the Dictionary and edited by the English sociologist Peter Hamilton, the critical value of this distinctive work is at last made available for a wider audience.

This book addresses the most common questions raised by parents regarding the impact of media on children.

The idea for this book can be traced to an informal brainstorming session among four very good friends -- Ali Mazrui, Victor Olorunsola, Donald Rothchild and Dunstan Wai.

The effort to improve state institutions in post-conflict societies is a complicated business.

Notes on one of the most infamous and bloody battles of World War IIfrom the German perspective.

„Lobby Work“ ist Interessenvertretung unter veränderten Bedingungen einer medien- und marktaffinen Gesellschaft.

Interpersonal communication (IC) is a continuous game between the interacting interactants.

This book engages thinkers from different religious and humanist traditions in response to Pope Francis's pronouncements on interreligious dialogue.

EU communications policy has massively changed due to both global competition on the ICT market and technological developments that led to the emergence of Internet technology.

The sustained remarkable economic growth in the East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - has brought about a great deal of debate over the role of the state in the market and society.

This book questions many of Britain's idiosyncratic attitudes towards education.

This book explores the complex relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East during the first half of the twentieth century.

Women and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain.

Kyrgyzstan is an interesting example of a relatively weak state, which for its brief period of independence has already ousted two presidents, experienced two revolutions, survived two interethnic conflicts and yet remained intact.

New Europe is a rhetorical term used by some analysts to describe European post-communist transition success stories.

Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "e;the Arab.

This book uses the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state's use of ideology, namely the political theodicy of development, as a governing tactic in the reform era.

The sixteenth century was a watershed in Egyptian history.

This volume analyzes what China's rise means for the transatlantic community in a new age of disruption-an age marked by great power rivalry, technological upheavals, and the diffusion of power.

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems.

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place.