Interdisciplinary studies books

Investigates the three approaches that have characterized most debates in the field of Media, Communications and Development since its emergence in the 1950s, namely, media development, media for development and stakeholder and...

Provides introduction to the theory and practice of the digital in social change. This title offers an entry point into an understanding of the contested nature of the digital in India via an analysis of theory and practice. It...

Psychotherapy and ethnography are jointly employed to produce an account of HIV positive children's lives (and deaths) in Zimbabwe that is sensitive to emotions and their social contexts.

Based on an impressive in-depth survey of 25,000 children carried out by the EU Kids Online network, this timely book examines the prospect for young internet users of enhanced opportunities for learning, creativity and...

Examines the role of communication in influencing the ways in which we perceive the environment as well as what actions we and others take in our relations to the natural world. This book provides a description of the concrete...

You're about to have an uncomfortable meeting with your boss. The principal just called about your middle-schooler. You had a fight with your partner and it's an hour before bed. You know your next move will go a long way toward...

Rev. ed. of: The poorhouse: subsidized housing in Chicago, 1895-1976. c1978.

Explaining how the price of aggression is low enough that governments do not avoid conflicts, this book examines many dimensions of costs incurred by warfare and proposes a private sector solution to warfare's low cost.

For a number of years, there has been mounting concern and debate in Germany about the decline of language . From a linguistic perspective, this hypothesis of decline cannot be substantiated. Public debate, however, does raise...

For a number of years, there has been mounting concern and debate in Germany about the decline of language . From a linguistic perspective, this hypothesis of decline cannot be substantiated. Public debate, however, does raise...

The emergence of China as a major economic superpower has raised concern among many U.S. policymakers. Some express concern over the large annual U.S. trade deficits with China which many view as an indicator that U.S.-Chinese...

China's breathtaking economic reform, including the rise of private enterprise, has often led observers to assume that the country's economic system has been transformed into a capitalist economy dominated by private enterprise. A...

A unique historical ethnography, Dimensions of Development illustrates how state and NGO projects have drawn Allpachiquenos deeper into capitalism and have brought about challenges to the local political structure, the comunidad...