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| ISBN: 9780415691390 |
| Pub Date: 15/12/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Hee-yeon Cho and Hyo-Je Cho, both at Sungkonghoe University, South Korea |
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| ISBN: 9780415686136 |
| Pub Date: 30/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Ehito Kimura, University of Hawai’i, USA |
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What makes large, multi-ethnic states hang together? At a time when ethnic and religious conflict has gained global prominence, the territorial organization of
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| ISBN: 9780415691529 |
| Pub Date: 29/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Fumiko Sasaki, St. Edwards University, USA |
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Masao Maruyama was the most influential and respected political thinker in post-WWII Japan. He believed that the collective mentality, inherent in the traditio
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| ISBN: 9780415506953 |
| Pub Date: 29/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - T.J. Pempel, University of California, USA and Chung-Min Lee, Yonsei University, South Korea |
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Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia’s security complex poses unique quandaries. The security architecture in Northeast Asia to date has been predominat
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| ISBN: 9780415527583 |
| Pub Date: 28/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Anton Cartwright, Susan Parnell, Gregg Oelofse, all at University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities, South Africa and Sarah Ward |
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Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft the
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| ISBN: 9780415686822 |
| Pub Date: 24/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Peter Bartelmus, Columbia University, USA |
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The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environmental and e
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| ISBN: 9780415686839 |
| Pub Date: 24/5/2012 |
| Binding: Paperback |
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| Author(s) - Peter Bartelmus, Columbia University, USA |
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The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environmental and e
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| ISBN: 9781849712859 |
| Pub Date: 23/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Stuart K. Allison, Knox College, USA |
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What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a p
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| ISBN: 9780415695886 |
| Pub Date: 23/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Paolo Urio, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
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In the West, innovations in new public management (NPM) have been regarded as part of the neoliberal project, whilst in China, these reforms have emerged from
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| ISBN: 9780415500111 |
| Pub Date: 21/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida, USA |
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High performance during catastrophic terrorist events require the ability to assess and adapt capacity rapidly, restore or enhance disrupted or inadequate communications, utilize flexi
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| ISBN: 9780415675079 |
| Pub Date: 18/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Hans G. Schuetze, University of British Columbia, Canada and Maria Slowey Dublin City University, Ireland |
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The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in nati
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| ISBN: 9781849713979 |
| Pub Date: 16/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - John Elkington |
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A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species
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| ISBN: 9780415897730 |
| Pub Date: 15/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Peter Sayer, University of Texas, USA |
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The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English sp
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| ISBN: 9780415898638 |
| Pub Date: 14/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner and Stephan Lanz, all at European University Viadrina, Germany |
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The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deep
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| ISBN: 9780415518277 |
| Pub Date: 14/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Göktug Morçöl, The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
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Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natura
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| ISBN: 9780415892230 |
| Pub Date: 3/5/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Xiangming Chen, Fudan University, China and Ahmed Kanna, University of the Pacific, USA |
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Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nod
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| ISBN: 9780415684521 |
| Pub Date: 27/4/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - David Geary, University of Oxford, UK, Matthew R. Sayers, Lebanon Valley College, USA and Abhishek Singh Amar, Hamilton College, USA |
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Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars
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| ISBN: 9780415687997 |
| Pub Date: 27/4/2012 |
| Binding: Paperback |
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| Editor(s) - Bryna Goodman, University of Oregon, USA and David S G Goodman, University of Sydney, Australia |
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Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at t
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| ISBN: 9780415687980 |
| Pub Date: 27/4/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Bryna Goodman, University of Oregon, USA and David S G Goodman, University of Sydney, Australia |
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Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century.
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| ISBN: 9781439880234 |
| Pub Date: 27/4/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Author(s) - Andrew Woo, NGRAIN Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Pierre Poulin, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Digital shadow generation continues to be an important aspect of visualization and visual effects in film, games, simulations, and scientific applications. Thi
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| ISBN: 9780415783460 |
| Pub Date: 24/4/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK and Samuel A. Chambers, The Johns Hopkins University, USA |
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Michael J. Shapiro’s writings have been innovatory with respect to the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant array of methods that he has
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| ISBN: 9780415783477 |
| Pub Date: 24/4/2012 |
| Binding: Paperback |
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| Editor(s) - Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK and Samuel A. Chambers, The Johns Hopkins University, USA |
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Michael J. Shapiro’s writings have been innovatory with respect to the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant array of methods that he has brilliantly mastered. Th
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| ISBN: 9780415678711 |
| Pub Date: 24/4/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy, Pui-lam Law Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong and Shanhua Yang, Peking University, China |
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This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond,
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| ISBN: 9780415782845 |
| Pub Date: 23/4/2012 |
| Binding: Hardback |
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| Editor(s) - Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro, both at University of Hawai’i, USA |
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This edited volume seeks to propose and examine different, though related, critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, th
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| ISBN: 9781466517035 |
| Pub Date: 23/4/2012 |
| Binding: Paperback |
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| Author(s) - John M. Blain |
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While Blender is a wonderful free and open source program for computer modeling and animation, there has been a lack of unified, up-to-date documentation for b
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