Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects books

This book presents on inclusive innovation: a form of innovation motivated by environmental and social aims that...  Read More >>

This book addresses endemic issues of racism in news media at what is a critical moment in time; as journalists...  Read More >>

This book investigates the population and labour management reforms implemented since the reform and opening up...  Read More >>

The book highlights new imaginaries required to transcend traditional approaches to law and development. The authors...  Read More >>

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries own 30 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves and largely depend...  Read More >>

This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion inform hierarchies of social locations and...  Read More >>

This book critically examines the questions related to the access to and financing of higher education in India....  Read More >>

A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized...  Read More >>

This book examines why the US has introduced safeguards that are designed to prevent their counterterrorism policies...  Read More >>

This book analyses communication of university research institutes, with a focus on science communication. Advancing...  Read More >>

The book examines the failures and some of the successes of Africa in its efforts to transform into a society where...  Read More >>

This book captures the everyday life structures of a cohort of Muslim/ex-Islamist female youth in Egypt who have...  Read More >>

This edited book analyses the issues of state-building, the rule of law and good governance, and human rights in...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and...  Read More >>

Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry...  Read More >>

This book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century...  Read More >>

This book examines the widespread protests which took place in Japan in 1960 against the renewal of the US-Japan...  Read More >>

Analyses the impact of ICTs on economic development. Offers panel studies on various issues facing developing countries,...  Read More >>

The contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between...  Read More >>

This book analyses economic successes in South Asia by offering in-depth analysis against the backdrop of overall...  Read More >>

This book examines contemporary militant democracies in post-communist states in the European Union.  Read More >>

This book explores how law and policy makers within the Southern African Development Community regional structure...  Read More >>

This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America. It asks why some cities...  Read More >>

Fatality quotas implemented in China’s industrial sector are being used to promote work safety and therefore, reducing...  Read More >>

This book explores the decline of rural and peripheral areas in Japan which results from an aging population, outmigration...  Read More >>