Interdisciplinary Studies

Aid effectiveness has emerged as an intensely debated issue amongst policy makers, donors, development practitioners, civil society and academics d...

In the last decade biodiversity loss and persistent poverty in developing countries have been recognised as major international problems that requi...

Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the in...

Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the in...

Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrializing and developing countries, asbestos use co...

The book provides descriptions of experiences from research and educational sustainability projects and the role HEIs can play together with contri...

This work examines the way in which prominencea perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, ...

The international community invests billions annually in thousands of projects designed to overcome poverty, stop violence, spread human rights, fi...

Written by a distinguished scholar, this book explores themes of culture, identity, and power as they relate to conceptions of practice in conflict...

Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of c...

Christine L. Nystroms provocative work offers up a fresh approach to ongoingand increasingly urgentquestions about the role of symbols and technolo...

Communication is at the heart of any complete understanding of the end of life. While it is true that individuals physically die as a single entity...

This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induc...

Using the Herman & Chomsky «Propaganda Model» that was introduced in 1988, Goss offers a rigorous and accessible portrait of contemporary news ...

Thematically organized around three of the most pressing ethical issues of the digital age (shifting of professional norms, moderating offensive co...

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety...

Telecommunications, copyright, media, evidence, file sharing

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the termin...

Biofortification the enrichment of staple food crops with essential micronutrients has been heralded as a uniquely sustainable solution to the pr...

On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the ...

This book provides geographic perspectives and approaches for use in assessing the distribution of environmental health hazards and disease outcome...

This study in German offers profound insights into the life and thoughts of Wang Guowei (1877-1927). Like many intellectuals who strongly perceived...

This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambe...

There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to ...