This book explores how cities worldwide, especially in China, can build resilience against disasters and presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating and strengthening urban safety and sustainability.
Global South Creator Cultures situates creator labour within the geographic specificities of nation-states and examines the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their work, offering a four-part conceptual framework for studying creator cultures.
This book presents an innovative and thought-provoking argument regarding the foundations of politics and its ethical implications, exploring the difference between what politics is (and/or can be) and what it is not (and/or cannot be).
Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth, this complete edition of the Wipers Times, the famed trench newspaper of the First World War, is an extraordinary mix of black humour, fake entertainment programmes and pastiche articles, and constitutes a unique record of life on the wartime frontline.
This timely handbook of recent scholarship on Moscow moves beyond today's headlines to present a broad spectrum of methodological and historiographic perspectives on the city's historical and contemporary significance.
Roger Scruton is Britain's best-known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration.
This book assesses the oversight regime in Afghanistan to identify and characterize the oversight failures, and then links them to specific negative strategic outcomes.
This book assesses the oversight regime in Afghanistan to identify and characterize the oversight failures, and then links them to specific negative strategic outcomes.
This book is the first study of how President Barack Obama and his administration used the negotiation and ratification of an arms control treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), as a vehicle for advancing one of the president’s primary foreign policy objectives, a reset of US relations with Russia in the early years of his first term of office.
This book is the first study of how President Barack Obama and his administration used the negotiation and ratification of an arms control treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), as a vehicle for advancing one of the president’s primary foreign policy objectives, a reset of US relations with Russia in the early years of his first term of office.
The evolution of capitalist economies through waves of liberalization of markets over the last five decades led to structural changes and greater systemic risks.
This book describes 'whole onflow' which is, at once, the emergence and becoming of the entirety of the world/universe and any actual, unique position whatsoever in it 'now'.
African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends, whilst also situating them in their historical context.
This book analyses the internalization of conflict in the minds of children living and growing up in the Kashmir valley, and its effect on their identity formation and Schooling.
Referente intelectual indiscutible y una de las voces criticas mas influyentes del mundo, Noam Chomsky aborda en este libro los desafios mas urgentes de nuestra epoca: la crisis climatica y sus devastadoras consecuencias, los riesgos y las promesas de la inteligencia artificial, los encajes geopoliticos destinados a marcar el rumbo internacional en las proximas decadas, el ascenso del neofascismo y la necesidad de articular estrategias globales de resistencia.
This book analyses the internalization of conflict in the minds of children living and growing up in the Kashmir valley, and its effect on their identity formation and Schooling.
This book analyses Pareto’s social and political thought a hundred years after his death, showing how the structure of the scholar’s works is generally quite clear (contrary to what is commonly presumed), and how the maintenance of the social and political systems’ equilibrium represents Pareto’s main research focus .
The Durand Line, an enduring symbol of colonial imposition dividing British India and Afghanistan since 1893, and Afghanistan and Pakistan since 1947, fuels relentless regional instability and geopolitical strife.
This book documents the purpose and history of the African Network for Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) with the aim to showcase how to develop useful research with, for, and by persons with disabilities within the African context and beyond.
This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the complex relationships between aesthetics, politics, and environmental concerns within far-right movements.
