Interdisciplinary studies

This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

This comprehensive book provides a detailed exploration of the roles and uniforms of German women during the Nazi regime, highlighting their contributions despite Hitler's conservative views on their place.

La Chine est omniprésente.

In the early 1980s, biotechnology caused worldwide excitement as a high technology with almost unlimited potential in science, medicine, and industry.

Formed shortly after the outbreak of World War 2, and equipped with Messerschmitt Bf 109Es, Jagdgeschwader 1 was initially tasked to defend the regional North Sea and Baltic coastal areas and Germany's main port cities and naval bases.

John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's post-colonial period.

Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'.

Winner of the 2008 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeSex offenders, particularly those who offend against children, feature prominently in contemporary law and order debates.

Peter Kern macht polizeiliche Kommunikation bei Großveranstaltungen erstmals zum Gegenstand einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung und beleuchtet dabei die Parameter gelungener Kommunikation.

Saskia Sell geht der Frage nach, wie Kommunikationsfreiheit im Kontext des medientechnologischen Wandels netzöffentlich ausgehandelt wird.

This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India.

This book efficiently contributes to our understanding of the interplay between data, technology and communicative practice on the one hand, and democratic participation on the other.

Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan.

Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring the Middle East is going through a turbulent phase as violence, internal conflicts and civil wars are ravaging a number of countries.

The media continue to have a significant persuasive influence on the public perception of crime, even when the information presented is not reflective of the crime rate or actual crime itself.

Die vorliegende Studie stellte die Frage, wie sich die Berichterstattung über das Privatleben von Politikern in Deutschland verändert hat.

First Jesuit.

Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys, this book sheds light on the socio-political landscape of this minority group and the various political factions vying to speak for them.

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

A Tributary Model of State Formation: Ethiopia, 1600-2015 addresses the perplexing question of why a pedigreed Ethiopian state failed to transform itself into a nation-state.

Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology.

This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it.

In this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East.

This book comprises a collection of essays that address a significant gap in the study of Malaysian Literature in English by exploring selected local and diasporic writings produced in the new postcolonial millennium, including works by established, emerging, and new writers.

This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward.

Coming shortly after the British occupation of Iraq and the German invasion of Russia, the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran secured a vital route for supplies to Russia and assured British control of the oilfields.

This book prepares the way for the practice of kenarchy: a humanity-loving, world-embracing, inclusive approach to life and politics.

Beginning with the apostles themselves, Christians have practiced the art of telling their stories to bring others to faith.

Dieses Buch enthält Episoden aus der Mathematik des mittelalterlichen Islam, die einen großen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Mathematik hatten.

An interdisciplinary case study of a project to dam the Narmada River in central and western India so that it can be used productively.

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.

This book engages with the life and works of the distinctive Hindi writer Krishna Sobti, known for making bold choices of themes in her writing.

Walter Abendroth ist der Frage nachgegangen, was Reinkarnation in der Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners bedeutet.

Scientometrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences is the first ever book on scientometrics that deals with the historical development of both quantitative and qualitative data analysis in scientometric studies.

Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing.

With firsthand sources and archeological research, this study explores life inside Nazi prisons during the occupation of the Channel Islands.

This comprehensive and thought-provoking volume examines the role and function of religion in Hezbollah's political strategy in the context of contemporary Lebanese politics and global security.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

This book introduces readers to Catholic social teaching, the Church's long tradition of reflection on the meaning of social justice and how to enact it.

This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise.

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This book presents selected papers from the 33rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, virtually held in Madrid (Spain) due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book serves primarily as a field guide and curriculum for organisations training personnel for conflict management missions abroad.

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions.