Interdisciplinary Studies

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...

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...

Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impac...

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and intercultura...

How to Structure a Thesis, Report or Paper provides concise practical guidance for students to help make their writing more structured at any level...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemi...

First published in 1901, this volume emerged in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Manchuria. Its author had been in charge of the British Co...

This book examines the strategic and economic logic behind the BangladeshChinaIndiaMyanmar (BCIM) Regional Cooperation. According to estimates, BCI...

Written by a team of international scholars, Sport and Nationalism in Asia - Power, Politics, and Identity is a collection of original research whi...

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate t...

Chinese President Xi Jinpings One Belt, One Road (OBOR) vision, heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route, is intended to strength...

Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the eccentricities of...

This book, first published in 1969, builds on the authors first selection and contains a selection of Chinese lyrics (tzu) mainly from Sung Dynasty...

This book follows Chagalls life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through t...

This book, first published in 1935, examines the world of Chinese painting: the background, styles, audience and reception, intentions and achievem...

Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still ...

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of microfinance initiatives in India. Through substantive field research and case studies ranging acr...

This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish coloniali...

This title was first published in 2000: Yugoslavias dissolved at a time when rhetoric of the New World Order was firmly established in legal and po...

Omniconomics shows how we can make human society intrinsically sustainable, harmonically embedded in nature, with the help of a completely new appr...

This book focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing companies in emerging and developing countries. China and India have become the primar...

This book is devoted to a comparison of the governmental and economic institutions of north and south zones of Viet-Nam; that each zone has its own...

Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engageme...

This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth cen...

One of the seventeen critical infrastructures vital to the security of the United States, the water supply system remains largely unprotected from ...

This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of the book is that a broad understanding of low-...