This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest... Læs mere
This book traces the evolution of the Faust myth from the Sixteenth century to modern times. The authors studied include Marlowe, Calderon, Milton, Goethe, Byron, Dostoevsky, Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Salman Rushdie.
The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges... Læs mere
This study makes northeast Asia the focus of analysis on how the nuclear crisis in... Læs mere
Japanese leaders and often the media too have substituted symbols for strategy in dealing with Asia. This comprehensive review of four periods over twenty years... Læs mere
This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on the Vietnamese state, society, and order, and Vietnam's international and regional environment.
This book traces the development of Chinese thinking over four periods from the 1980s on and covers strategies toward: Russia and Central Asia, Japan, the Korean... Læs mere
This volume focuses on the constitutive politics of civilizational identity, examining the practices... Læs mere
Can Latin America compete? Many argue that the macroeconomic and trade reforms of the 1990s merely put a handsome coat of paint over... Læs mere
This atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the 8th-7th century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book.
This book looks at the role of multiculturalism in the complex construction of the European Union, acknowledging the tension... Læs mere
The unique essays in this collection use the underlying allegiance to scripture in Islam, Judaism,... Læs mere