Publications
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Africa in International Politics
(2004)
Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors ...
Chapter 37 A Systematic Literature Review of Game-based Learning and Gamification Research in Asia
(2018)
The main purpose of this research is to conduct a systematic literature review of research studies on game-based
learning and gamification conducted in Asian K–12
schools. Through this review, we intend to present a ...
Environments of Intelligence
(2017)
What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories ...
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy
(2016)
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. It asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2016)
Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this ...
Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices
(2014)
The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high ...
Glocal Pharma
(2016)
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. An exploration of how global ...
Russia-EU relations and the common neighborhood
(2017)
Examining Russia–EU relations in terms of the forms and types of power tools they use, this book argues that the deteriorating relations between Russia and the EU lie in the deep differences in their preferences for the ...
Terrace Heroes
(2005)
The 1930s saw the birth of the football idol - prototype for today's powerful media sport stars. The players of the 1930s were the first generation of professionals, yet until recently the life and careers of footballers ...
The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction
(2007)
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
Economic and Social Transformation in China
(2007)
The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected ...
Beyond Enlightenment
(2006)
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. ...
The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908
(2006)
This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the ...
Developments in the Call Centre Industry
(2006)
Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth area in white-collar employment internationally since the mid 1990s. Yet the ...
Sinicization and the Rise of China
(2017)
China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics ...
A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(1997)
A multi-purpose reference work which should become an indispensable companion for anybody who comes into touch with Hinduism. Includes a dictionary of Sanskrit and vernacular terms; a glossary of terms and concepts; and a ...
Understanding Japanese Savings
(2005)
Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will ...
The Symbolic Order
(1990)
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society
(2018)
The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and social sciences. Building ...
Chapter 11 Antagonisms and solidarities in housing movements in Bucharest and Budapest
(2020)
This chapter investigates housing contention in Bucharest and Budapest in the period after the 2008 financial crisis. Our focus of attention is on the antagonisms and solidarities produced across different social positions ...