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Chinese Ethnic Business

by Eric Fong & Chiu Luk

Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization,...


Urban Sociology: Images and Structure

by William G. Flanagan

The fifth edition of this book extends the discussion of the challenges faced by urban sociology in the global age, while covering the issues traditionally associated with urban sociology. It presents a balanced...


Corporate Strategy

by Angelique Du-Toit

This book takes a fresh look at corporate strategy, exploring it from a feminist perspective. Challenging male-dominated theory, Corporate Strategy looks at unquestioned assumptions held about strategy in practice...


Islamic Education and Indoctrination

by Charlene Tan

Islamic schools, especially madrasahs, have been viewed as sites of indoctrination for Muslim students and militants. Some educators and parents in the United States have also regarded introductory courses on...


Communication Research Measures II

by Rebecca B. Rubin, Alan M Rubin & Elizabeth Graham

Expanding and building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume, Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook provides new measures in mass, interpersonal, instructional, and group/organizational...


Race, Rhetoric, and Technology

by Adam J. Banks

In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the...


Labour Migration from China to Japan

by Gracia Liu-Farrer

Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens...


From the Inside Out

by Jennifer Brown

The story of how a painful and traumatic childhood nearly ended in tragedy, the adult years of knowing he was different but unable to articulate the cause, even to himself, that he really was she, trapped inside...


Whitewash

by John Gabriel

By putting the language used in television, the radio, the internet and press, as well as that spoken by key leaders, under the spotlight, what is ultimately revealed is the existence of a 'white' language,...


New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia

by Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin & Kenneth R. Hall

Using a unique "old-new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises...


Tourists at the Taj

by Tim Edensor

Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For others it is...


Narrating Post/Communism

by Natasa Kovacevic

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on...


Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45

by Bruce Elleman

The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943, is examined here by Bruce...


The International Politics of the Persian Gulf

by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Adib-Moghaddam examines the causes and consequences of conflict in one of the most important regions of the world. Bridging the gap between critical theories of international relations and the empirical study...


Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia

by Paulin Straughan, Angelique Chan & Gavin Jones

Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries....


Brands

by Adam Arvidsson

Drawing on rich empirical material, this revealing book builds up a critical theory, arguing that brands have become an important tool for transforming everyday life into economic value.

When branding lifestyles...


Race, Ethnicity and Football

by Daniel Burdsey

As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices....


Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era

by Christopher R. Hughes

Presenting an analysis of the tension between nationalism and globalization in China since the beginning of the 'reform and opening' period in the late 1970s to the present day, this book makes a unique contribution...


How Buddhism Began

by Richard F. Gombrich

Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism. It takes 'early...


Families in Asia

by Stella Quah

Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia.

Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey data, personal interviews and case studies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea,...