Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects books

This book determines why current Asian democracies have become less stable and less resilient to increasing authoritarianism....  Read More >>

"Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the ""Limits of the State,"" this book brings together...  Read More >>

Liu and Cowan offer a unique in-depth study of educational development and social transformation in rural China....  Read More >>

This book unpacks the complex dynamics of Hong Kong students’ choice in pursuing undergraduate education at the...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers’ sport events that were organised or...  Read More >>

This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from...  Read More >>

This book, aimed at students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, uses a unique typology of ten core...  Read More >>

This book shines light on learner-centred pedagogy, which has gained popularity within global and national governments,...  Read More >>

This book takes a case study approach to explore the crisis of legitimacy in American political culture.  Read More >>

Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled...  Read More >>

This book explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and examines International...  Read More >>

This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the city of Istanbul in Turkey, this book examines the city’s informal urban settlements, the need for...  Read More >>

Examining Chinese-North African relations through the lens of President Xi Jinping's Silk Road grand strategy, this...  Read More >>

This volume examines the library of the Abbasid caliphs, known as ‘The House of Wisdom’ (‘Bayt al-Hikma’), exploring...  Read More >>

This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan, one of several...  Read More >>

Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which...  Read More >>

"This book examines returns on experience and managerial practices to generate deeper collaboration, intensify co-creation,...  Read More >>

This book explores the convergence and interrelation of the text of Nāla-yi ʿAndalīb with its context. It considers...  Read More >>

This book takes a closer look at the relation between current issues and trends in higher education and scientific...  Read More >>

This book examines the possibility of using alternative programmes to address cases of honour-based violence and...  Read More >>

This book traces the history and politics of the Greater Nepal movement. It will of interest to scholars and researchers...  Read More >>

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of socio-economic systems globally and exposed the risks...  Read More >>

This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance's relationship to the archive. The essays...  Read More >>

This book analyses the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early...  Read More >>