Interdisciplinary Studies

This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have represented national identity in their films. The focus of this book is on indep...

Auf der Grundlage einer allgemeinen textphänomenologischen und -theoretischen Bestimmung des Phänomens einer poetica scientiae versucht die vorlie...

Das Handbuch setzt sich mit den vielfältigen Beziehungen und Wechselwirkungen zwischen KI und den Künsten auseinander. Verfahren und Erscheinungsfo...

The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo chang...

Throughout history, many states have attempted to harness the attention of their populations for their own ends. This study argues that the Assyri...

Gasoline the most common petroleum product comes in several types or grades. Straight-run gasoline is generated solely by crude oil distillation. ...

This volume collects reflections on secularity from the Middle East and North Africa. To highlight proximate connections as well as resonances with...

Explaining Research is the ultimate guide for scientists, engineers, and other professionals seeking to share their life's work effectively with im...

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...

The transformation of book formats, production technologies and reading practices has always been at the heart of any social change. Sumin Zhao off...

The documents from the aram al-sharf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad area...

Seit den Enthüllungen Edward Snowdens ahnt die Öffentlichkeit das Ausmaß geheim- und nachrichtendienstlicher Massenüberwachung. Neben dem Staat üb...

How can empathy and persuasiveness help us become better professionals and address societys big issues? You can fi nd the answers in this guide to ...

Can we trace attempts taken in Russian history to overcome the inability to speak publicly? How do different social groups in modern Russia cope wi...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

Darstellungen von Schule in deutschen Spielfilmen scheinen immer wieder auf ähnliche Bilder und Semantiken von Bildung, Erziehung und sozialer Sel...

Die Publikation stellt den Hongkonger Philosophen Lao Sze-kwang (1927-2012) anhand seiner kulturtheoretischen Schriften und mit Blick auf seine Pos...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Subjektivität als wesentlich geschichtlich gefasst werden kann. Ein aktuelles Problem besteht darin,...

Biogenic toxins are fascinating natural products characterized by an enormous diversity of chemical structures and pharmacological activities. They...

Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most c...

Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political...

Modern Iran since 1797 offers a comprehensive analysis of political, social and economic developments in Iran since the end of the eighteenth centu...

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and ...

Retaining the broad yet practical approach of previous editions, this popular textbook has been fully updated with research and theory from the las...

The Wests actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of con...

Ragged Trousered NGOs is a compelling first-hand account of the NGO sector and wider civil society over the past 40 years, examining how and why pe...

This book discusses the nuances of corridor development in India and its implications on land acquisition and displacement. It explores the complex...

Complaint systems have existed in China for many years, and in 2004, a debate took place in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters an...

This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy...

This book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the integration of environmental policies into US free trade agreements. The work focuses on ...

Economic diversification remains at the top of the agenda for hundreds of regions around the world. From the single commodity economies of African ...

Forty years after becoming an independent state, Israel is still involved in deadly strife with many of its Arab neighbors and with the Palestinian...

This book presents more than 1,000 entries organized in twenty-six major categories in the fields of conflict and peace studies. It focuses on glob...