Regional Studies

This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Centr...

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...

This manual presents procedures for performing advanced laboratory tests on fine-grained soils. It covers characterization tests, which determine s...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change ac...

This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectiv...

Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of Pernicious-Vestiges narratives in the news text of Peoples Daily, this book is devoted to...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (d...

Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature der...

This book enriches the evolving concept of soft power, and Chinas approach to soft power, by considering how aspects of Chinese culture, notably th...

This book focuses on the linguistic perspective of classical Chinese poetry and its changes and development in diff erent historical periods. It of...

This book characterises the problematic status of motherhood in present-day Iranian society that is, problem in the Foucauldian sense of an object...

This book examines Russias multidimensional foreign energy policy and the emerging and ongoing conflicts with energy-consuming and transit countrie...

The disastrous effects of floods in urban areas of various Indian cities have been increasing in severity and extent over the past decade. This boo...

This book applies a novel theory of unbalanced responsiveness to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship be...

Branding Authoritarian Nations offers a novel approach to the study of nation branding as a strategy for political legitimation in authoritarian re...

Focusing on the 25 January 2011 Egyptian revolution, this book traces its affective and emotional dynamics into the local realties and everyday pol...

Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent c...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

This handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a sing...

This volume is a collection of K. Satchidananda Murtys unpublished writings. It presents Murtys views on the theory and praxis of education. Murty ...

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives ...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book a...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

This book tackles the infodemicthe rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramificati...

This book examines Chinas fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first...

The book offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies.Centered arou...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and...

This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to r...

This book examines Koreas foreign direct investment policy dynamics and points out the importance of mutual synergy between multinational corporati...

The competitiveness of companies plays an important role in developing their effectiveness. But technology provides a strong competitive advantage ...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israels society, economy, religion, language, c...

As the fourth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the lexical system of Old Chinese and the development of diff...

This book discusses a newly developed concept of adaptability capacity and development as an extension of Charles Darwins work on adaptability. It ...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management...

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have ...

The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan offers a unique insiders perspective on the political climate in the country, present...

The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...

As the seventh volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Mongolian influence on neologisms in Modern Chinese and ...

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and...

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger proj...

Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinions a...