Interdisciplinary Studies

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emp...

This title was first published in 2003. How was public policy and economic development in Nigeria affected under the period of military control bet...

This title was first published in 2003.This book analyzes the policy initiatives used in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United...

Title first publishedin 2003. This comprehensive book focuses on the prevailing conditions in Asia and Africa under various macroeconomic and secto...

This title was first published in 2001: Despite considerable expansion, the scholarly literature on political corruption has remained fragmentary, ...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

The Flowering of a Tradition, which describes the development of technical, or practical, writing in England during the seventeenth century, from 1...

For centuries, democracy and development have steered the imagination of governments, citizens, intelligentsia and policymakers alike. Democracy wi...

Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 c...

This book explores the role of listening in community engagement and peacebuilding efforts, bridging academic research in communication and practic...

The phenomenal growth and liberalisation of the Indian economy has been the subject of extensive scholarly documentation and competing interpretati...

Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 c...

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

First published in 1984. For those who have heard Max Atkinson expounding his theses about the nature of stimulus and response for political speake...

What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined...

First published in 1995. The author presents this book as a tale of a small and distinct country and an account for its struggle for self-preservat...

Robert Schumann was a unique personality in 19th century music: a celebrated music critic and champion of new composers as well as a talented perfo...

This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

The fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development are inextricably linked, with people, organisations and the environment or thei...

The before-and-after trope in photography has long paired images to represent change: whether affirmatively, as in the results of makeovers, social...

In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinatingrange of forms from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from huma...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

This book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on typography, colour, texture, sound and movement, and shows how they ar...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in Chinas education system. Marketization, quality assurance, and issu...

Sheikh Yusf al- Qaraw is regarded as the most influential contemporary Muslim religious figure. His best-selling book, Al-alal wal-aram fi al-Islam...

This book investigates the manner in which the Quran and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature.Providing a comprehensive ...

First published in 1975, this book is concerned with the facts and implications of the case of Lin Piao and his army, as well as with the broader q...

The year 1986 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong and the fall of the Gang of Four. A decade after the end of the Cultural Revo...

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic...

This volume is about economists, economics, and issues of concern to Indian society. Some essays are expository, and some satirical. Together, they...

This book attempts to illuminate some of the trends and conditions in China just prior to, and at the time of, the Communist takeover. It deals wit...

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together. Fostering security and s...

This title was first published in 2000: A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states with particular em...