Southern Medicine for Southern People
How does a national medicine emerge? This book examines the making of Vietnamese medicine, from its origins in Chinese traditions to its modern revival, linking its development to Vietnam’s tumultuous quest for independence and post-colonial national identity.
Sovereignty and Justice
The ICC’s legitimacy rests on complementing, not violating, national sovereignty. For this to work, states must ensure their trials meet international standards, with support from the ICC and the global community. This book offers recommendations to succeed.
Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance
This collection explores literary works by and about Native Americans, focusing on how they have navigated and resisted dominant white ideology. These essays examine the discrepancy between ideological representations and the actual lived experiences of native peoples.
Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.
This book explores the cultural and social aspects of space in archaeology. Using cutting-edge spatial methods, it reveals how people have used space to subsist, recreate culture, and understand landscape, social relationships, and cultural heritage.
Space and Events
This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.
Space and Place as Human Coordinates
Crossing the humanities and social sciences, this book explores how the core concepts of ‘space’ and ‘place’ shape our reality. Essays examine 20th and 21st-century cultural phenomena, offering new perspectives for scholars in cultural studies, media, communication, and beyond.
For millennia, we have been intrigued by space and time. This book brings together eight essays exploring their expression in language and literature, using diverse linguistic and literary perspectives to reveal how culture shapes our conception of reality.
This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
This guide to age-oriented transmission schemes integrates space, air, ground, and sea networks into a single architecture. A comprehensive resource for professionals and newcomers, it provides a current understanding of efficient, flexible network design.
This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.
This anthology explores the concept of space in literature, film, art, and culture. The contributions invite readers to consider the function of space as symbolic representation, analytical tool, and haunting effect, demonstrating its ethical and political impact.
Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies
This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.
This volume explores space, place, and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies. It considers how art, film, and literature can reinvigorate representations of modern nations and celebrate their dynamic communities without relegating minorities to the margin.
Spaces and Places in the Fantastic
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the spaces central to fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It explores how fantastic geographies—from digital worlds to bodies as spaces—shape identity, reflect social ideas, and challenge our perceptions of the real world.
Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered
In post-war Australia, planners and architects envisioned ideal environments for children. But for the children who grew up there, these abstract spaces were places imbued with personal meanings, a perspective markedly different from the expert notions of the era.
As cultural boundaries blur, ideas of space and location—physical or metaphysical, real or imaginary—are evolving. This volume of interdisciplinary essays explores topics like globalization, diaspora, and the body across visual art, literature, and cinema.
Spaces of Knowledge
Medieval thought is more than its intellectual elite. This volume explores its extraordinary wealth and variety, from major philosophical works to technical treatises involving all social strata. It offers a new approach to the knowledge of an era.
Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.
Spanish Royal Patronage 1412-1804
Portraits have a long history in royal courts as a way of communicating the monarch’s status, rulership, and even piety. This anthology places such art works studied in the context of their commission, production, and display, with a specific focus on Spain.
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