This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at... Læs mere
Presents the scientific developments in Computational Dynamics, Stochastic Dynamics,... Læs mere
Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World is an exciting new core text for introduction to comparative politics courses.
A reference collection of papers for practitioners and researchers in the maintenance, repair and retrofitting of concrete structures and pose a base for further discussion and research. Set of book of abstracts (476 pp) and a searchable full paper CD-ROM (1396 pp).
This book depicts a fictional encounter between Artaud, Michaux and Zhuangzi to raise important issues about comparative literature. It shows that the themes of rationality, cosmology and ethics are particularly pertinent to bridging a comparative dialogue between them.
Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to the shifting political... Læs mere
This book explores the challenging issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people’s health.
Major topics in these Proceedings of the 4 th European Conference on... Læs mere
Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the 'written' and the 'unwritten' constitution.
Building on an increasingly sophisticated body of research on policy ‘borrowing’ in education, this collection explores ways in which the foreign... Læs mere