Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and pa... more

This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the ... more

Policy-making in public health is highly complex, which is one reason why the behavioural turn is no... more

This book covers recent developments in the interdisciplinary fields of actuarial science, quantitat... more

Based on ethnographic studies in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, this book explores the edges o... more

Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result ... more

This book presents a collection of critical thinking that concern cultural, social and political iss... more

Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and pa... more

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an internatio... more

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with ... more

This book addresses new research directions focusing on the emotional and aesthetic nature of teachi... more

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective. Le... more

This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivativ... more

This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles ab... more

This volume presents current work on a topic in Romance linguistics that still informs linguistic th... more

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in m... more

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How ... more

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order... more

In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ... more

My Name is Brett: Truths from a Trans Christian is a story of a transgender Christian finding his na... more

Wish to die statements are becoming a frequent phenomenon in terminally ill patients. Those confront... more

The industrial age has proved to be a formative period for Europe. Industrial heritage nowadays bear... more

Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market str... more

This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific con... more

This volume gathers a global array of scholars from a range of disciplines - geography, ethnography,... more

Changing circumstances in Western and global societies have introduced new constraints and opportuni... more

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How ... more

A young boy commits suicide. The town folk believe it was another result of bullying but two brother... more

This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world... more

This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world... more

Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of glo... more

Menschliches Altern unterliegt immer der kulturellen Interpretation. Der kontinuierliche biologische... more

Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book r... more

Organizational behavior shows many facets. Hence, its study comprises numerous research fields. Alth... more

lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Kathrine Varnes teaches English at the University of...... more

South Africa has achieved a lot on its path of socio-economic transformation since the end of Aparth... more

Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, ... more

Animal experimentation has been one of the most controversial areas of animal use, mainly due to the... more

The Beijing artist Cao Fei creates works that lie on the threshold between reality and fiction, refl... more

Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems and virtual reality applications merge... more

technical development of painting at the Deutsches Museum, Munich - Kathrin Kinseher; The chemist Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932...... more

This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by c... more

A collection of papers from the 2014 ATSR symposium in Amsterdam, exploring how art technological so... more

El presente libro analiza el papel de las mujeres realizadoras en la Historia del Cine tomando como ... more

Beginnend mit der Stroke Unit werden aktuelle Aspekte der Versorgung von Schlaganfallpatienten im in... more

World-wide, the degradation and destruction of both natural and traditionally used semi-natural ecos... more

Religious communities inscribe themselves into the cityscape not only socially and politically, but ... more

Are "smart cities" the future of urban living? This book examines a five-year public-private partner... more

In her video works, Berlin-based Laura Horelli (born 1976) uses the documentary idiom to explore com... more