Sciences

In this book, the late Prof. Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov argues that the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process so far has been mainly the result of the inability of both sides to reach an agreed …

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region. South Asia provides one of the world”s most challengin …

The aim of this book is to examine the transformation of the geography of China in the years since the start of China”s policy of reform and opening-up in 1978, as seen through the eyes of Chinese g …

The Pāli tradition presents a diverse and often contradictory picture of women. This book examines women’s roles as they are described in the Pāli canon and its commentaries. Taking into consideratio …

Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of relig …

When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small …

This book develops a new framework – the stakeholder model – that helps to understand corporate finance and governance in modern society, where the sources of people’s happiness have shifted from mon …

This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary …

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining c …

This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia’s newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political hi …