This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of t...

Fourteen sculptures of the distinguished Central Asian artist Erkin Mergenov constitute the subject matter of this book. The creative force of the ...

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers...

In our daily lives, the rule of law matters more than anything and yet remains an invisible presence. We trust in the rule of law to protect us fro...

Britain does not have a written constitution. It has rather, over centuries, developed a set of miscellaneous conventions, rules, and norms that go...

Dead phones, chaos in hospitals, looming nuclear meltdowns: For years, experts all over the world have been warning of a widespread power blackout—...

This is a book about the crisis of the European integration project as seen from the vantage point of people’s movements across and to the European...

The 20th century began with a deep identity crisis of European parliamentarianism, pluralism, rationalism, individualism, and liberalism―and a foll...

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning in the late 1940s until the fall ...

Computer vision approaches to human motion analysis have received considerable attention from different research areas over the past couple of year...

In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementat...

In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementat...

In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementat...

When this book was written, it was the story of one death among many in the war in Eastern Ukraine. After February 24, 2022, it took on a new dimen...

The right to be elected, although an important political right guaranteed in human rights documents on international and regional levels, is still ...

This compilation of essays by scholars from the region, Western Europe, and the US, explores the intersection of international politics in the post...

Sound contracts are an obvious necessity for an IT outsourcing relationship, but they are by far not the only prerequisite for achieving a truly su...

In September 2017, Dr Nasser Kurdy was stabbed in the neck while entering the grounds of his local mosque. This book tells the story of that attack...

Despite a general assumption that Information Technology is necessary for most business processes, the business value of IT is the subject of debat...

This book came into being almost by accident: After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion to Ukraine, several students of a Kyiv screenwriting ...

Soviet-era philosopher Merab Mamardashvili developed an original and subtle philosophical system distinct from both his orthodox and dissident coll...

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalized, relational, ...

Combining phenomenological analysis with dance and performance analysis and affect theory, A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Becket...

Nowadays, communication and interaction between humans and autonomous robot systems suffer from the fact that the "language" that robots understand...

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new the...

This collection introduces Activity Theory to the current generation of theorists and researchers. Originating in early Soviet psychology, suppress...

In the 1650s and 1660s, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nikon, carried out a series of reforms which were rejected by a large nu...

With the help of discourse analysis and ideology critique, this study establishes a theoretical framework to analyse African nationalism in aparthe...

Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Ru...

Anthony Barron explores the relationship between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Beckett’s critical and creative writing...

Czechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains under-researched. This monograph blends historical analysis...

Over the past 30 years, China’s intensive agricultural production and nitrogen overuse has led to significant environmental problems. Moreover, far...

Even though traditional microfinance has successfully paved the way for offering financial services to low-income populations without traditional c...

Mustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy by comparing the playwright’s characters with those of Chekhov’s drama and drawing...

"Aleksandr Prokhanov (born 1938) is a prizewinning novelist and also, as editor of the weekly newspaper Zavtra, a leading figure in Russian ‘imperi...

Will the Russian and Jewish nations ever achieve true reconciliation? Why is there such disparity in the interpretations of Russo-Jewish history? T...

Alexander Dubček is well-known, so one might think; nothing new can be written about him. Is this true? Dubček is the symbol of the Czechoslovak at...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was one of the Cold War`s most iconic writers. This book offers an in-depth analysis of his reception in the US, UK, and Ger...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was one of the Cold War`s most iconic writers. This book offers an in-depth analysis of his reception in the US, UK, and Ger...

Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy examines the role that allegory plays in Greek thought, particularly in the transition from the mythic tradition...

ambiguity revisited is concerned with the manner in which pictures communicate with the spectator. Its focus lies in those fluid, indeterminate spa...