Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

When in the summer of 1920, the Red Army invaded newly independent Poland hoping to use it as a base for carrying out communist revolutions in the ...

We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sp...

Despite the tremendous multi-disciplinary upsurge of interest in "the body" of late, little or no attention has been given to the moving body or ra...

In today's world, with the increased emphasis on student assessment and teacher accountability, this book is invaluable to the physical educator. T...

Roberto Benigni's romantic comedy Life is Beautiful enjoyed tremendous success everywhere it was shown. In addition to winning almost every possibl...

Now In Paper! While there is a great lamenting among the public within educational circles about "illiteracy," especially within the language minor...

Published in 2004, Military Deception and Strategic Surprise! is a valuable contribution to the field of Military and Strategic Studies.

An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library! Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Consideration...

First published in 1969. Part of this work was originally made public as articles in ‘Fraser's Magazine’ and the ‘Contemporary Review’. It deals wi...

This far-reaching study of women's literature sheds new light onto the ways we think about memory, modernism, postmodernism, feminism. In Enacting ...

This is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology.Set out in thematic sec...

We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sp...

Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early ...

The Nineteenth Century provides a broad, scholarly introduction to nineteenth-century philosophy. It also contains a glossary of philosophical term...

This comprehensive study of leaders of color in higher education is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand and/or navigate a career path thro...

Puzzle fans have bought more than 650,000 copies of the Mensa Genius Quiz series,the only books that let readers match wits with Mensa," comparing...

Few corporate initiatives of the last ten years have been more influential in the development of a learning culture at work than the corporate lear...

An adequate account of Charles Temple’s personal background and, the details of his career have been given by Dame Margery Perham in Lugard: the ye...

This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colon...

This is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology.Set out in thematic sec...

The written word is our primary tool for communication – with colleagues, administrators, stakeholders, and users. Poor use of words can lead to mi...

This authoritative guide to the principles and practice of archives management in private and public sector organizations has been substantially re...

First published in 1968. A reissue of the posthumous 1698 edition of Christian Huygen's The Celestial Worlds Discover'd or Conjecture concerning th...

Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939...

First Published in 1978. This book seeks to fill the gap of works in English that systematically deal with social and economic life in 'primitive',...

First Published in 1965. The compilation contained in the following book have been made with the object of rendering available to those interested,...

Countering the perception that the humanities are unessential, this volume contends that their well-being has not only academic but also cultural, ...

In this how-to guide, practitioners at cultural heritage venues share their experiences in building sustainable relationships with their geographic...

* Provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology and establishes the interconnections bet...

Librarianship is both an art and a science. Librarians study the science of information and how to work with clients to help them find solutions to...

This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth resea...

This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a critical overview of the relationship between contemporary ceramics and curatorial practice in m...

The internet is developing more extensively in China than any other country in the world. Chinese Cyberspaces provides multidisciplinary perspectiv...

Countering the perception that the humanities are unessential, this volume contends that their well-being has not only academic but also cultural, ...

This important reference volume covers developments in aspects of British library and information work during the five year period 2001-2005. Over ...