Exploring gentrification in heterotopic post-industrial urban spaces, these studies illustrate, empirically, the extent to which advertising adsensory technologies have become integral to the gentrification of post-industrial urban spaces.
This third volume explores UA’s rising enrollment and new student governance. It covers the university’s rise to national academic respect, the birth of the “Crimson Tide,” the Million Dollar Band, the UA/Auburn rift, and its response to WWI and the women’s rights movement.
Revisiting Centres and Peripheries in Iberian Studies
This volume gathers fresh research from international scholars investigating the multiple tensions between the centre and periphery of the Iberian cultural system. Topics range from the situation in Catalonia to transoceanic postcolonial relations, history, memory, and fiction.
How do we manage the challenges confronting cities? This volume brings together international experts to provide stimulating new ideas and successful examples of tools being used worldwide to make the places we call home more liveable and sustainable.
This text celebrates Professor Olasope Oyelaran, bringing together papers by international scholars influenced by his work. It presents current research on the linguistic and cultural interface of Africa and its diasporas in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad.
Kam Women Artisans of China
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
This book explores meaning in language, uniting linguistics, semantics, and computer science. It examines the rapid emergence of meaning in the digital world of social media and memes, using authentic corpus data to show why human language understanding is essential today.
This volume presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the development of diplomatic relations, and the rise and resolution of conflicts.
Identity Mediations in Latin American Cinema and Beyond
This book explores how the flows of music, films, and artists shape cultural identities. It analyzes these transits, mainly in the Ibero-American space but also Soviet and Asian cinema, revealing cultural networks that extend beyond national borders.
Exploring the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception, this anthology demonstrates that publishing needs to be understood as a social and cultural practice, and not just as a business.
Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
The Urban Environmental Crisis in India
This compendium represents a unique collection of thoughts and views of various water management experts. It highlights that the future of the emerging urban society lies in the proper management of waste and not in mere disposal.
Discovering New Educational Trends (V3)
This textbook of articles and narratives assists educational professionals and students across diverse disciplines—from education and health to psychology and the humanities. It is an excellent resource for university coursework and a supplemental reading tool.
Deriving from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014, the papers here consider the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds with regards to the sustainable development of the economy throughout Africa.
A Multidimensional Perspective on Corruption in Africa
Leading African policymakers argue that tackling corruption is key to eliminating poverty and inequity. This book offers strategies for mobilizing citizens toward accountability and transparency to build stronger national integrity systems for a sustainable Africa.
This book uses empirical data to explore the Indian tribal economy, focusing on the vital role of minor forest produce. It throws new light on their contribution to tribal income and corroborates the deep dependency between the forest and tribal communities.
The Japan Self-Defense Forces Law
The first book to examine the Japan Self-Defense Forces Law, this provides a historical overview of its function since 1954. It includes the first full English translation of the Law, incorporating all 160+ changes. Essential for students, scholars, and practitioners.
Is mental ability one general factor, as psychometrics claims, or many specific ones, as neuropsychology suggests? This debate has critical implications for education and social issues. This book gathers diverse experts to explore the nature of human mental abilities.
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the 21st century, which create a veritable platform for the global redefinition and understanding of Africa’s rich cultures and traditions.
Classical Chinese Medicine
This volume details the core concepts of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), framing it as a post-Newtonian “ecosystem science.” It explores the paradox of how this ancient, backward-looking practice is at the cutting edge of scientific thinking today.