This book explores the full history of Shaolin. It points out that as an important religious institution with more than 1,500 years of history, Shaolin has created a legacy of remembrance which serves the formation of the Chinese nation’s soul and spiritual principles.
A Genealogy of Puberty Science explores the modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucault’s genealogical... Læs mere
A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related digital mapping technologies in humanities research.
This book brings together perspectives on food security and related environmental concerns from experts in the disciplines of literary studies, history, science, and social sciences.
A detailed case study of NATO during the Bosnian war, this book explores how the differing views and preferences among the Western... Læs mere
Economists have long grappled with the problem of how economic theories relate to empirical evidence. This book introduces, explains, and develops a structural... Læs mere
Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a... Læs mere
In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This book brings... Læs mere
This book resituates Francis Sylvester Mahony in an early nineteenth-century literary-historical context, counteracting the efforts of twentieth-century literary historians to obscure his contribution to the emergence of a distinctive Irish Catholic fiction in English.
A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States documents the history of hippodrama in the United States, and clarifies the multi-faceted significance of the form and of the related stage machinery developed to produce hippodramas.
Situated in the turbulent heart of Europe, the Czech Republic has suffered from significant discontinuity in its historical development, but its economic thinking has... Læs mere
The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970. Only then did the current theory of the firm literature begin to emerge,... Læs mere