Science

Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation …

First book of its kind to examine images of women in Japanese consumerism. Explores a variety of media targeted at women – in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consume …

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal with e …

First published in 2005. Although most of the wealth of Saudi Arabia »s flora lies in the wetter and hilly south-west of the country, the sand seas are covered by a relatively diverse range of plant …

Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dy …

As small, open economies the Nordic states have always been more dependent on foreign trade than larger powers, and have thus had a historic preference for free trade. But during the inter-war period …

Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women »s lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are acti …

Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender a …

This second edition of Women, Knowledge, and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, sevente …

This book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume have a dual focus. First, they analyse th …