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...