Interdisciplinary Studies

The second edition of this handbook offers a thoroughly updated overview of the different approaches and perspectives in communication ethics today...

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

This volume brings together eminent scholars from various parts of the world, representing different fields of knowledge in order to explore the so...

Auf der Grundlage neu entdeckter Dokumente wird die Biographie des aus einer Converso-Familie stammenden Kabbalisten Abraham Cohen de Herrera alias...

This book celebrates binocular vision by presenting illustrations that require two eyes to see the effects of cooperation and competition between t...

This book focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on Latino/a/e/x students, families, and communities across the educational continuum to better understa...

Uganda is home to 1.5 million refugees from DRC, Burundi, South Sudan and other countries. The Uganda political framework is one of the most progre...

This book looks at the constitutional and regulatory frameworks of loan and debt recovery laws and legislations. It explores different aspects of t...

In developed countries like the United States, Germany, and the UK, it has been observed that workers who perform non-routine activities, either co...

Multilingual Crisis Communication is the first book to explore the lived experiences of linguistic minorities in crisis-affected settings in the Gl...

Is the Kuomintang - the nationalist party of China - the villain it is sometimes portrayed to be? Or is it the embodiment of the political and mora...

This book examines and explains changes in Chinese health care policy during the 1949-1977 period. It is concerned with analyzing the reasons for p...

An array of case studies exploring evolving tax policy and economic development in Pacific Asian countries.

There has been a tendency to neglect the political life of Asia, in favour of religious and aesthetic considerations. The myth of the changeless Ea...

Host country to the 1988 Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became prominent in world affairs but surprisingly little was known abo...

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

First published in 1929, Before the Bluestockings is a study of the individual lives and the position of educated Englishwomen from the Restoration...

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

Rival communities of the faithful are not in the habit of reading each others books, and when they do so, it is often to find fault and disparage. ...

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. Anxiety is a phenomenon that ...

The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during ...

While most attention is given to the booming mega-cities in China and the associated problems of over-population, the rural areas in China are bein...

Product and process design - driving sustainable innovation is the 2nd edition of a comprehensive textbook for product and process design courses a...

In 1587, Ab al-Fazl ibn Mubrak a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnmah completed his Preface to the Persian translation of th...

Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive be...

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qurns history, from the first or...

Wenngleich die Bestimmung des medizinisch Normalen einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftstheoretischer und -historischer Diskussion darstellt, ist di...

Zeitungsnachrufe sind Gelegenheitstexte, die anlässlich von Sterbefällen und Todestagen entstehen. Wen würdigt der Abschieds-Journalismus mit solc...

Gerade in Krisenmomenten treten kleine Formen und Formate in stabilisierender oder mobilisierender Funktion auf. In der Zwischenkriegszeit erschein...

Promoting Islamic religious communication in German requires extremely precise knowledge of this kind of communication and language. This can stre...

Welchen Stellenwert haben Texte in verschiedenen Kulturen? Dieser Frage nähert sich der vorliegende Band von verschiedenen Seiten. Beginnend mit d...

At a time of contested realities and a renewed focus on the power of personal stories, narrative research is as relevant as ever. But while it has ...

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, ow...

Process intensifi cation aims for increasing effi ciency and sustainability of (bio-)chemical production processes. This book presents strategies f...

Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads. After over thirty years of development, the consensus regarding its appropriateness has sta...