Exploring Africanity, the unique cultural heritage shared by the many peoples of black Africa, Jacques Maquet's provocative study describes the similarities of kinship and marriage institutions, political organizations, religious...

A broad-ranging history of defectors from the Communist world to the West and how their Cold War treatment shaped present-day restrictions on cross-border movement. Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during...

"Getting Started With Matlab 5: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers" von Rudra Pratap ist ein praxisorientiertes Handbuch, das sich an Wissenschaftler und Ingenieure richtet, die schnell und effizient die Grundlagen von...

Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative from an early stage, and guides them to the point where they can read...

"Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity" von Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber untersucht die gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Kräfte, die den Druck auf Frauen ausüben, einem bestimmten...

"The Politics of Oil in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Prospects for Oil Exploitation and Export in the Caspian Basin" von Rosemarie Forsythe bietet eine umfassende Analyse der geopolitischen und wirtschaftlichen Dynamiken rund um die...

"A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman" von Robert Phillip Kolker ist eine analytische Untersuchung des amerikanischen Kinos und seiner bedeutendsten Regisseure. Kolker beleuchtet die Werke von Arthur...

In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now...

International Relations theory assumes that the struggle for power is not only ahistorical but that international politics is necessarily the realm of a perpetual struggle for power between states. However, by looking beyond the state,...

"Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity" von Albert Rothenberg, M.D., untersucht die Natur der wissenschaftlichen Kreativität und die Prozesse, die zur Entstehung bahnbrechender wissenschaftlicher Ideen führen....

This book examines the past as a way of preparing for the future. McCloskey has brought together leading economic historians who show that commonly accepted perceptions of our economic past can be wrong and, therefore, misleading. The...

"Vestibular Disorders: A Case Study Approach" von Stephen P. Cass bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die Diagnose und Behandlung von vestibulären Störungen. Das Buch verwendet einen Fallstudienansatz, um praktische Einblicke in...