Anyone who is planning on carrying out research in South Asia or indeed anyone who simply wishes to understand more about this cultural heartland should read this book.
How ideas, individuals, and political traditions from Weimar Germany molded the global postwar orderThe Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post-World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War.
Usually remembered for its slogan ';Tippecanoe and Tyler too,' the election of 1840 is also the first presidential election of which it might be truly said, ';Its the Economy, Stupid.
Packed full of invaluable and practical advice, tips, quizzes and self-assessment exercises for fifteen to eighteen year olds, this guide, written with the keenest and most ambitious students in mind, will help you to maximise your academic potenitial and achieve the results you need.
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights.
In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines.
We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to the fundamental features of modern societies.
By examining the sometimes surprising and unexpected roles that culture and religion have played in mitigating or exacerbating conflicts, this book explores the cultural repertoires from which Southeast Asian political actors have drawn to negotiate the pluralism that has so long been characteristic of the region.
Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a "e;city-killer"e; that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties.
This book provides an in depth-examination of the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the implications of that principle for the suppression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the domestic level.
Das vorliegende Buch ging aus dem Symposium "Abwanderung und Migrati im Juni 2003 hervor, das von dem on in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern" Institut für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften und dem Max-Planck Institut für demografische Forschung in Rostock veranstaltet wurde.
There has been an upsurge in scholarship concerned with theories of social practices in various fields including sociology, geography and management studies.
This is the first book to focus on the scope of social work practice within military settings from an international perspective, and therefore addresses what has been a significant gap in the literature.
Daniel Berriganspowerful, poetic commentary on the biblical book of Daniel brings to life a prophet who has as much to say to our hedonistic, warring world as he did to the people of Old Testament times.
By drawing on Jungs and Marxs opposing ideas, James Driscolls Carl versus Karl: Jung and Marx, Two Icons for our Age develops fresh perspectives on urgent contemporary problems.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state.
This book argues that global rule-of-law standards in post-conflict states are reshaped in interactive translation processes between external and domestic actors.
The drastically altered European security context has forced Western defence planners and analysts to reassess core assumptions, including the future role of NATO.
The book presents authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the role of the Catholic church in France over 50 years of social, political and theological change.
In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild-author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self-focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life.
This book urgently confronts systems of privilege and oppression within education, and combines concepts including bifocality, currere, and conscientizacao to highlight the role of dialogical and autobiographical reflection in dismantling neoliberal and colonial logics at the level of theory, policy, and practice.
Drawing on oral-history interviews and other sources, this work provides fascinating accounts of how Soviets, Jews, and Roma fared in the Russian city of Smolensk under the 26-month Nazi occupation.
Das vorliegende Buch setzt sich mit der Nachhaltigkeit der Innovationspolitik der Region Masowien im Kontext europäischer und staatlicher Politik auseinander.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of UNICEF's development and operations, whilst exploring the significance of UNICEF's achievements and the reasons behind them.
Crnobrnja discusses in detail the part of the drama most visible to the world -- the rapid dissolution of the country following civil war and internationalization.
This is the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military public affairs management since Vietnam.
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today.
