In the knowledge economy, life sciences drive innovation, involving vast resources. Frank Miedema critiques the romanticized view of science as altruistic,... Læs mere
The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities.
Addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movements in Europe and their role in the crises associated with the Age of Revolution.
Poussin's Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women.
'Communicate as a Professional' offers a solid foundation for developing the communication knowledge and skills that students need, both when working as a professional after they have graduated, and when following an educational program that prepares them for this future.
Stretching from queer-feminist engagement with China’s newest poetry to philological reflection on its oldest, this book brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.
This book investigates the roots of Dutch visual clichés in popular visual media, offring new insights into the emergance of national clichés and the study of stereotypical thinking.
This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions concerning the evolving role of imams in Europe.
Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, this book investigates how the different contentious actors in China's green sphere link up and what this means for environmental contention.
This collection of essays surveys the richness of creation and creativity in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning between medieval and modern culture.
Explores what unites diverse humanities disciplines like literary theory, linguistics, history, and philosophy, examining how the tripartite division between natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities emerged in the 19th century and remains contested today.
This book looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city in Pacific Asia.