Regional Studies

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

Auf der Grundlage neu entdeckter Dokumente wird die Biographie des aus einer Converso-Familie stammenden Kabbalisten Abraham Cohen de Herrera alias...

This book focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on Latino/a/e/x students, families, and communities across the educational continuum to better understa...

This book looks at the constitutional and regulatory frameworks of loan and debt recovery laws and legislations. It explores different aspects of t...

Is the Kuomintang - the nationalist party of China - the villain it is sometimes portrayed to be? Or is it the embodiment of the political and mora...

This book examines and explains changes in Chinese health care policy during the 1949-1977 period. It is concerned with analyzing the reasons for p...

An array of case studies exploring evolving tax policy and economic development in Pacific Asian countries.

There has been a tendency to neglect the political life of Asia, in favour of religious and aesthetic considerations. The myth of the changeless Ea...

Host country to the 1988 Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became prominent in world affairs but surprisingly little was known abo...

In the early 1980s, biotechnology caused worldwide excitement as a high technology with almost unlimited potential in science, medicine, and indust...

First published in 1929, Before the Bluestockings is a study of the individual lives and the position of educated Englishwomen from the Restoration...

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

Rival communities of the faithful are not in the habit of reading each others books, and when they do so, it is often to find fault and disparage. ...

While most attention is given to the booming mega-cities in China and the associated problems of over-population, the rural areas in China are bein...

In 1587, Ab al-Fazl ibn Mubrak a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnmah completed his Preface to the Persian translation of th...

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qurns history, from the first or...

Promoting Islamic religious communication in German requires extremely precise knowledge of this kind of communication and language. This can stre...

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, ow...

Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads. After over thirty years of development, the consensus regarding its appropriateness has sta...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

Now in its sixty-fourth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world...

Die Reihe Communicatio, nun in neuer Ausrichtung, versammelt methodisch ambitionierte Forschungsbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, die ...

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic...