This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of... Læs mere
Divided History uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification.... Læs mere
Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This... Læs mere
Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of "East" and "West."
With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to both early modern and contemporary economic conditions, revealing Shakespeare to have been a serious economist in his own right.
Examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as... Læs mere
Examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as... Læs mere
First objective look at Viktor Frankl’s life. Covers his entire life from 1905 to 1996. Has original biographical information and incorporates official biographies. Insight into the Holocaust as well as the history of psychology.
This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.
By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with... Læs mere
Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts – such as “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a number of... Læs mere
Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection.... Læs mere