Sociology

This book focuses on the experience of social dialogue in Turkey, which is a European Union candidate country.

This book provides a complex and intricate portrayal of Asian American high school girls - which has been an under-researched population - as cultural meditators, diasporic agents, and community builders who negotiate displacement and attachment in challenging worlds of the in-between.

This important volume focuses on the sensitive issue of interrelationships between national parks situated near or within urban areas and their urban environment.

This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's eco-development.

This book is a study of the causes of the Confucian revival and the party-state's response in China today.

This edited collection provides a synthetic analysis of the rise of contemporary China and its impact on the current global system from a range of Asian and Western perspectives.

This book highlights the models developed to create a sustainable framework suitable for luxury in the textile sector and the innovative attempts in the luxury fashion and fabrics industry.

This book details two elements of textile chemistry namely- sustainable/eco-friendly dyes and green chemistry.

There have been a lot of innovations in making the garment or apparel production sector sustainable.

This book highlights the innovations in textile fibres, that is the starting point of the supply chain.

This book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of agricultural communities in southern India, from their historical roots to the recent global neo-liberal era.

This study aims at analyzing the resilience of Indonesia from two aspects: one is was natural disaster and the other is environmental protection.

This book explores the emerging concept of cultural DNA, considering its application across different fields and examining commonalities in approach.

This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions.

This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life.

This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies.

This book analyses the relations between Indonesia and China in the regional dynamics of Southeast Asia.

Dieses wissenschaftlich fundierte Fachbuch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die biochemischen und physiologischen Grundlagen der low carb vegetarischen und veganen Ernährungsweise.

Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition.

This book integrates the basic theories (GST and Parson's AGIL framework), applying them to the components of social systems, state-run and business firms.

This book adopts a case study based research approach to examine the contemporary issues in the fashion industry.

This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering.

This book is the first to provide an in-depth analysis about the history, urban development, planning, and preservation of the Lhasa city over the last thirteen centuries.

This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students' minds can be 'switched on' in order to unlock their extraordinary potential.

This book focuses on the influence of social media on Chinese society.

This book brings together recent postgraduate research in the broad area of giftedness, talent development and gifted education conducted across New Zealand and Australia.

This book provides an in-depth study of Japanese whaling culture, emphasizing how the Japanese have considered whales and whaling in relation to their understanding of nature and religion.

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times.

This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.

This book places the topic of the state and society in the context of modern development in China over the past century, investigating the dynamic relation and internal tension between the state's power enhancement and society's vitality activation instead of simply regarding the country and society as two separate entities.

This book explores the contours of a transformational sociology which seeks to reconsider the horizons of sociological imagination.

This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city cooling.

This book systematically elaborates Scott Eacott's "e;relational"e; approach to organizational theory in education.

This book, based on the Chinese dream and its basic principles, global significance, path of implementation and practical requirements, systemically explains China's Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy.

This book will broaden readers' understanding of the links between the music and fashion industries.

This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent.

This book develops a new approach towards the formation of the ethnic boundary as a complex interrelation between cognitive operations and ethnic/national boundaries formation process.

This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods.

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference.

This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development.

This book discusses the profound philosophy and practical psychology behind yoga, beyond its popular body-culture aspect.

Focusing on the concept of prudence as ethical groundwork for digital practices and activism, this book considers digital media expediency and populism as conflicting required experiences that lead digital citizens to discover activism.

This text addresses the Philippines' historical and contemporary reproductive politics, offering a timely insight into the rich reproductive lives of Filipinos.

Highlighting the conceptual work at the heart of Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive sociology, this cutting edge collection operationalizes Bourdieusian concepts in field analysis.

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century.

This original volume examines forms and limits of human inquiry from a largely sceptical point of view.

This book examines the evolution, contexts and politics of the structures and institutions that shape contemporary Russia.

This book focuses on the changes currently redefining parties and party systems in Israel and India with regard to parliamentary democracy, coalitional polity, electoral profiles and social diversity.

This cutting edge collection presents a political reading of the power of modern sport in Asia.

This book offers an overview of social media usage in Japan and describes its role in society during mid-level disruptions by natural disasters.