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This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for thinking about urban development and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy, between Western and other cities.

This Element examines the impact of the 1511 Portuguese conquest of the port-kingdom of Melaka on early travel literature. Putting into dialogue accounts from Portuguese, mestico, and Malay perspectives, this study re-examines early modern 'discovery' as a cross-cultural trope.

Sonia A. Hirt argues that zoning laws are among the important but understudied reasons for the cross-continental differences between Europe and the United States.

This cross-disciplinary book provides a historically grounded explanation for the rise and demise of authoritarianism. It is the first study of Egypt's judicial institutions within a single analytical framework. It departs methodologically and epistemologically from previous studies and provides valuable insights into the future of politics in Egypt and beyond.

Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experiences as an immigrant to bear on this study of the psychology of immigrants and refugees, and of those who cross paths with them.

Cross-cultural Management explores a range of topics that are essential to provide students with a big picture perspective on the impact of culture on international business. It provides in-depth information on how cultures, demographics, and beliefs influence the way business is conducted.

Cross-Laminated Timber Design: Structural Properties, Standards, and Safety

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundations of safety science and provides balanced treatment of all approaches since the early 20th century, showing interlinkages and cross-connections between the approaches.

Taking a multi-sited, cross-cultural approach, this book investigates the relationship between cultural institutions in presenting "intangible heritage."

Bringing together critical race, queer and decolonial analytical approaches, visual analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis, this book explores the discursive strategies deployed by African luxury brands in an age of cross-platform, intertextual branding.

The Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the Russian. Both governments discourage cross-border interaction, yet exchange is constant. Anthropologists Franck Bille and Caroline Humphrey describe a vigorous and diverse transnational society facing profound political constraints.

Many a Westerner has had a cross-cultural experience of honor and shame. In this well-rounded and ministry-tested guide, Georges and Baker help us decode the cultural script of honor and shame, assisting us also in reading the Bible anew through that lens. Then they offer thoughtful and practical guidance in ministry within honor-shame contexts.

Includes 555 fully conjugated French verbs, idioms and expressions for these verbs, extended usage examples for the Top 50 verbs, 2,500-plus verbs cross-referenced to conjugation models, and more.

In the context of increasingly multilingual global educational settings, this book provides a timely exploration of the phenomenon of cross-linguistic transfer of writing strategies (in particular, transfer from the foreign language to the first language) and presents a compelling case for a multilingual approach to writing pedagogy.

As an interdisciplinary study, this book pinpoints intertextual and intercultural cross-fertilization between American literature and Iranian cinema, addressing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the latter to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen.

This new fourth edition has been completely updated, with over 500 new entries increasing the coverage of botanical terms, key drugs derived from plants, and plant orders and families. Numerous appendices include new timelines and phylogenies, with vernacular plant names transferred to a fully cross-referenced appendix.

After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru, German botanist von Martius compiled an unsurpassed catalogue of all known genera of palm. This exquisite encyclopedic treasury is a jewel of 19th-century botany, as remarkable for its meticulous classification, as it is for its maps, color landscapes, and cross-sectioned diagrams showing...

A resource to sharpen your Hungarian verb and grammar skills. In addition to providing essential concepts regarding verbs and grammar, it includes: an index of the 300 most popular verbs, which can be cross-referenced with the numerous verb tables appearing throughout the book. Each unit focuses on a single verbal or grammatical concept.

The description for this book, A Theory of Cross-Spaces. (AM-26), will be forthcoming.

Cross-Cultural Management

This book reflects multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional analysis of issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and the criminal justice system, and the impact on Aboriginal children, young people and their families.

Different languages organize their vocabularies in a myriad of ways. This book is an engaging, reader-friendly celebration of global linguistic diversity, with fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variety presented in each chapter. It is ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about the extent of variation across the human lexicon.

Material Methods brings introduces students and researchers to the wide range of cross-disciplinary methods which help us to approach and interpret material culture and materials.

Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to found the Roman people.

Financial capital affects domestic politics, and can finance policies that entrench authoritarian rule. This book presents theoretical foundations, cross-national quantitative analysis, and specific historical examples to challenge existing studies and contribute to important literatures in economics and political science.

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad cross-section of constituenciess? Valluvan propose a theorisation of contemporary nationalist ascendancy which addresses this question head-on. -- .

This cross-Europe analysis explores crucial aspects of long term recovery from substance use. Leading experts set out the evolving needs of people who have sought to change their use of substances and the factors in their progress. The book concludes with clear recommendations for improving future research, policy and practice.

Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives covers the broad range of contemporary perspectives on the use of interpretation in couple and family psychoanalysis from leading practitioners around the world.

Journeys through Emerging Adulthood takes the reader on a tour of contemporary transitions to adulthood, reporting on the latest cross-national and cross-cultural research into young adulthood and separating fact from fiction about this important life phase.

Bringing together expertise from neuroscientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars, this collection provides discussions of the latest findings in neuroscience and provides a cross-disciplinary exploration of the topic of cultural memory.

Helps you to sharpen your Portuguese verb and grammar skills. Providing essential concepts regarding verbs and grammar, this book includes an index of the 300 most popular verbs, which can be cross-referenced with the numerous verb tables appearing throughout the book.

Every year during Holy Week in the Philippine province of Pampanga, hundreds of men and women undergo acts of excruciating, self-inflicted pain in ways that evoke the Way of the Cross. This book addresses this practice through in-depth analyses of three interconnected ritual acts: the pabasa, the pagdarame, and the pamamaku king krus.

How the Global Financial Markets Really Work is an in-depth examination of the factors that shape international money flows, and the cross-border influences that impact on every economy in the world.

Invites readers to place children's literature in conversation with works more typically understood as being for adult audiences, read multiethnic US literature alongside texts by global writers, consider children's poetry and nonfiction as well as fiction, and read diachronically as well as cross-culturally.

Calle er vild med motocross. Han drømmer om at blive verdens bedste motocross-kører. Sammen med Lukas og Johan går han til cross ovre i klubben. Calle vil gerne køre løb, men de andre i klubben synes ikke, at han er god nok. Calle vil gøre alt for at vise dem, at de tager fejl. Endda hoppe banens sidste hop, selvom det er farligt. Kan Calle klare hoppet, og handler motocross kun om at være den bedste?   Lix 10

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad cross-section of constituenciess? Valluvan propose a theorisation of contemporary nationalist ascendancy which addresses this question head-on. -- .

This edition presents the new IEEE 1364-2001 standard of The Verilog Hardware Description Language. It offers updated examples that illustrated the new features of the language as well as a cross- referenced guide to the new and old features.

This important and timely book provides an overview of climate change and highlights the importance of including climate change education in primary schools. It emphasises the importance of cross-curricular pedagogical approaches with a focus on climate justice, providing in-depth assistance for teaching children aged 3 -13 years.

A rare insight into what it takes to run a major charity with worldwide reach.

Trauma in the creative and embodied therapies is a cross-professional book looking at current approaches to working therapeutically and socially with trauma in a creative and embodied way.

The rocketing milk consumption and production in China are of increasing global food safety, health, and environmental concerns. Milk Craze examines and compares developments in China's dairy industry and dietary dairy consumption, cross-nationally and globally, and more specifically in two localities: Shunde and Hong Kong.

Featuring research from settings as diverse as rural China, Germany and the United States, as well as two cross-national comparative studies, this insightful volume demonstrates that many educational issues (including student victimization and STEM outcomes) are not limited to specific societies but are relevant worldwide.

Includes 333 verbs, listed alphabetically; idioms and expressions for each verb; full facing page of usage examples for the top 50 verbs; one-stop, at-a-glance verb-tense profiles; more than 2,200 verbs cross-referenced to models; a handy guide to deciphering irregular verb forms; and an English index to the model verbs.

As one of the few of the 17 SDGs applicable in industrial settings, SDG9 seeks to find new steps towards achieving sustainable industrialization. This book explores the fascinating and cross-cutting aspects that jeopardize achieving SDG9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.

Vivid scenes of action that lead to the award of two Victory Crosses.

How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its ambiguous wartime record to re-affirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs and help rewrite the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions.

Focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.

This book focuses on a border police collaboration project in the Baltic Sea area aiming at fighting cross-border crimes.