Remembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes. Based on up-to-date field material, this issue focuses on the palimpsest-like environmen...

Special Section: Multilingualism in Ukraine. Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko: Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism. Taras Koznarsky: The Languages ...

"My name in Monei Ntuka and this is the story of my childhood in the village of Mochudi, in the then British Bechuanaland Protectorate, in the mid ...

The United States has a long-maintained strong affiliation with South Korea. On the other hand, North Korea, a country on President Bush's 'axis of...

What do "Deep water pier", "Nine dragons city" and "Mandarin’s lake" have in common with "Wong Tai Sin", the name of a Taoist deity? They’re all di...

As smallholder farmers switch to producing for the commercial market, they face a steep learning curve. To select a product and to market it effect...

The urge to say yes, to please everyone around you can be overwhelming. It is not just a matter of being a nice person. It can be rooted in your de...

Lebanon - Current Issues & Background

Lebanon is a religiously diverse, democratic state transitioning toward independence after a ruinous civil war and the subsequent Syrian and Israel...

The year was 1971. No one had ever heard of Afghanistan and no one cared. The Russians hadn't invaded and the Taliban didn't exist. Eloise Hanner n...

The United Nations Security Council passed three resolutions that placed sanctions on Libya until Libya surrendered for trial two men suspected of ...

This book is a bird´s eye view of the livelihood and geographical conditions of backward rural areas in the central and northern Andes in Perú and ...

This book documents experiences by those at the forefront of technical support and capacity development. The experiences and lessons learned all or...

Dive into a luscious feast of language and imagery, laced with Maori proverbs. Cowrie boards a ship bound for Mururoa Atoll during the French nucle...

This book provides the most current and comprehensive review available of the natural and human history of the Catoctin Mountain region of Maryland...

Mass media is the vehicle of mass communication which has traversed a long journey from primitive modes to modern sophisticated systems. In the lig...

"Throughout the world, though particularly in industrialized nations, people usually expend a massive amount of time with several forms of media, o...

"The media sphere has changed significantly as a result of globalization, technology, and new habits of media use. Today, more and more people are ...

This collection represents a complex material with respect to the cities, urban places, and metropolitan areas. This book may be considered as a co...

This reference book presents the important issues of contemporary Mexico within the backdrop of its historical background and augments it with an i...

America and Mexico share a continent with Canada and as the world continues to grow smaller find more and more issues which both bind and separate ...

The United States and Mexico have a close and complex bilateral relationship, with extensive economic linkages as neighbours and partners under the...

In 1998 the Middle East Conflict celebrated its 50th anniversary and now, eight years later, no final general settlement is in sight. Despite peace...

This book focuses on the migration history, demography, and socio-economic position of the Somali community in Britain, the largest of the Somali d...

Smartphones can provide services based on consumers' location, raising potential privacy risks if companies use or share location data without cons...

The book addresses the issues of China's modern social order, as influenced by an evolving economic order and especially legal order. Ongoing Chine...

This collection is the continuation of the series which began with MYNY in 2008. The series provides primers on life in international metropolitan ...

Is really "Islam" to blame for many of the ills of the world, like stagnation, gender inequality, social inequality, human rights violations and ec...

Greenland views itself as being on the way to sovereignty. This image -- and the tensions involved in it -- structure the triangular relation betwe...

NATO is at a crucial point in its development: on the one hand, the European members are seeking to redefine its mission as the security challenges...

Sustainable use of natural resources is a key element in the livelihoods of rural people. Especially the poor are often disproportionately affected...

This book is part of a broad study on Confucianism and its implications for the modernisation of East Asia. The Opium War symbolises the beginning ...

Author and blogger Jason Y Ng has a knack for making the familiar both fascinating and funny. Three years after his best-selling début "Hong Kong S...