World Studies: Europe

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The South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as a theatre of political, economic, and security concerns not only for the countries in the region but also ...

Description As much as any other nation, Germany has long been understood in terms of totalizing narratives. For Anglo-American observers in partic...

Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known ...

Launched in March 2010 by the European Commission, the Europe 2020 strategy aims to achieve "smart, sustainable, and inclusive" growth. This CEPS r...

The classic guide to warehouse operations-now fully revised and updated with the latest strategies, best practices, and case studies.

This volume expands the theoretical, disciplinary and geographical perspectives of pilgrimage studies by moving away from Europe and North America ...

This book reconstructs what Europe stood for in National Socialist Germany, analyses how the interplay of its defining elements changed dependent o...

A comparative analysis of the 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe during World War Two. Based on a wide range of documentation, Laurien Vastenhout ...

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Reducere. In Democracy's Think Tank, Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in makin...

How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works ...

Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by different social...

The Second World War between the Axis and Allied powers saw over 20 million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. Prisoners of War uses a series of c...

This book honors Cornelia Bodea, academician, scholar, professor, teacher, and, above all, friend and colleague to three generations of American an...

Reducere. This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endura...

Deals with the control and direction of companies by boards, owners and company law, and also looks at the mechanisms of governance and the differe...

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This Element contributes to the expanding field of early modern cultural studies in a global perspective by exploring how costume books and albums ...

DescriptionBorn on the island of Flores, between Europe and the United States, Pedro da Silveira captures the islander's longing for migratory move...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divide...

Biotechnology is referred to as one of the key enabling technologies of the 21st century. It has the potential to offer solutions for a number of h...

This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments...

Reducere. 1937, Europe and America. Based on a powerful true story, this extraordinary novel about wartime courage and extraordinary friendship, tells how tw...

Reducere. This book provides state-of-the-art information on how studies in applied theoretical organic chemistry are conducted. It highlights the many appro...

Reducere. This thoroughly revised third edition of an award-winning book offers a keen insight into how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Covering ...

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holoca...

Reducere. How art can empower and enhance community, with case studies from Central Asia, Latin America, Africa and beyondShowing how artists, artworks and c...

Reducere. Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement. Moving from city to city characterized the author's growing up--from Poland to Be...

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing viol...

DescriptionEven the Worthington least likely to wed may find her perfect match . . . Marriage has worked out quite nicely for her older sisters, ye...

If postmodernism is indeed 'the cultural logic of late capitalism', why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identit...

Reducere. This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust. It is the first of its kind in p...

Roman law has had a huge impact on European legal and political thought. Peter Stein, one of the world's leading legal historians, explains in this...

Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an agei...

This book illuminates a set of crisis and conflicts that marked the 1920s and 1930s in the area between the Baltic and the Black Seas, demonstratin...

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Reducere. TESOL International Association has defined a core set of principles for the exemplary teaching and learning of English as a new language. This boo...

This volume explores the role of linguistic ecology in the study of language contact. Bringing together an international team of experts, it offers...

DescriptionThis book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in Oct...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tina DickeyHans Hofmann (1880-1966), renowned painter and master teacher, clarified perennial issues in painting, through h...

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization o...

This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport. Focusing on people and place...

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Where is the world heading? What choices need to be made to help humanity to thrive? These questions are more acute than ever in a context of growi...

DescriptionIn the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierr...

Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influe...

This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the ...

Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval reli...

The 2nd edition of Public History: A Practical Guide provides a fresh examination of history as practiced in its various worldly guises and context...

Reducere. DescriptionSeeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher, poet, and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser (1905-...

DescriptionIn a time when an estimated 1.2 billion people across the world lack access to secure housing, how are cities working to empower and pro...

Arranged chronologically and illustrated wherever possible with frame stills, the aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed account...

Reducere. The Sword of the Lord is the first book to examine military chaplains and the development of the military chaplaincy across history and geography--...

DescriptionIn The Scientist and the Forger: Probing a Turbulent Art World the author draws upon an enthralling range of case studies, from Botticel...

Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and...

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Reducere. In the last few years, the problems of authenticity in paintings have reached untenable proportions in tandem with a lack of understanding from con...

Reducere. Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within ...

Reducere. DescriptionEven before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese g...

DescriptionContinuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of flow chemistry with th...

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DescriptionAcademics and practitioners from a range of institutions across Europe provide a cutting-edge, practical, and comprehensive review on th...

Reducere. This updated edition offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. K...

Description Throughout Germany's tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, w...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the c...

Reducere. Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This vo...

Reducere. n interesting study could be made of the fertilizing effect of error in the intellectual world. What a revolution has been caused in historical stu...

Reducere. Viking Empires is a definitive new history of five hundred years of Viking civilization and the first study of the global implications of the expan...