Shoma Munshi 
Images of the Modern Woman in Asia [EPUB ebook] 
Global Media, Local Meanings

Winner of the 2023 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, awarded by the Urban Communication Foundation Based on the author’s scholar-activist interventions to promote social justice in cities, …

Why are humans neither ’good’ nor ’bad’? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we’re asked if the world’s getting better? In this, th …

How many days are there between full moons – think you know? Is there an ancient key to the calendar hidden in stone circles? What is the magical secret of the Sun-Moon-Earth system? If you have ever …

This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakist …

Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depi …

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attri …

The ideas contained in Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies—one of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth century—are relevant to anyone seeking to understand th …

First published in 2001. The history of Japan is usually divided into ages and periods corresponding to changes in government. The ancient age, marked by the central authority of the imperial court a …

New Perspectives in International Development focuses on the latest thinking in the field, moving the debate into areas such as the connection between security, conflict, and development, managing en …

This book gives insight on the dynamics and route of economic policies that have been taken and implemented since the point of institutional reforms in 1998 that were triggered from the context of th …