Interdisciplinary Studies

This book examines three fundamental factors that influence the economic growth and development of the world's 93 smallest economies, which togethe...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond c...

Sustainability is a pressing concern for people and governments around the world, but it is also an essentially contested concept that requires an ...

Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments ma...

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social ...

This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes includi...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliabl...

Excessive military spending reduces the available financial reserves for health, education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases...

Changing relations between science and democracy and controversies over issues such as climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified or...

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of...

This edited textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections. It provid...

Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would b...

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a...

Drawing on innovative research into sectarian-political struggle in Beirut, Mohamad Hafeda shows how boundaries in a divided city are much more tha...

A hugely practical and inspiring self-help guide, Own Your Awkward will help you handle those awkward conversations around mental health. Michelle ...

A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat produc...

Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are believed to contribute towards economic development of host countries through foreign direct investment (FDI),...

The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnere...

While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new frameworks when approach...

The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnere...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologi...

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particu...

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particu...

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability ...

This Handbook, authored by a stellar line-up of international contributors, explores the diverse phenomena and issues surrounding the Korean busine...

Lithuanian Society in Transition examines the life experiences formed during the process of post-socialist transformation in Lithuania by analysing...

This book, part of a two-volume exploration, examines the trajectory of India-China relations, spanning from the making of a common border to the e...

For a company, managing its social and environmental performance is no longer just a matter of reducing its impact; it must also be able to assess...

This book illuminates fundamental knowledge and provides a comprehensive guide for those seeking to understand the intricacies of sustainable devel...

Trinidad and Chua provide invaluable insights on various dimensions and directions of twenty-first-century Philippines-Japan relations from Filipin...

From an out-of-school perspective, the book studies private supplementary tutoring, also widely known as shadow education within the Chinese educat...

This completely revised fourth edition of Fundamentals of Sustainable Development provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to sust...