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Migration from North Africa and the Middle East
Skilled Migrants, Development and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) and those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are crucial to the development of the world economy. Highly skilled migration to and from these regions is key to the recent socio-political transformations that have occurred across the world. Despite...
Powerful Co-Teaching
Special Education & General Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book is a must-read for administrators, teachers, professors, policy-makers, parents, and school district leaders across the country. Interventions can take several forms, but successful interventions come from creating a strategic plan based on observations with fidelity. To be successful, you...
Positioning Art Cinema
Film and Cultural Value
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe.
But how is art...
Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa
Franco-British relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination. Historically divided between the French and British empires, the country experienced a remarkable drive to self-determination in 1961, culminating in both the re-unification of two of its divided territories...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Putting readers into the shoes of film and TV professionals, Adventures in the Lives of Others is a gripping insider's account of ethics, problem-solving and decision-making at the cutting edge of documentaries and factual television.
It brings together a range of intimate, candid accounts...
After the Genocide in Rwanda
Testimonies of Violence, Change and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Since the Genocide against the Tutsi, when up to one million Rwandan people were brutally killed, Rwanda has undergone a remarkable period of reconstruction. Driven by a governmental programme of unity and reconciliation, the last 25 years have seen significant changes at national, community, and...
The Europe Dilemma
Britain and the Drama of EU Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
What is Britain's future in Europe? This book revisits an old argument but for dramatically new times. The old argument is about Britain's 'semi-detachedness' from Europe and whether that posture could ever change. The new times are the crisis in the Eurozone and its wider impact on the European Union's...
Heidegger Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
It is frequently commented that Heidegger writes impenetrable texts that are difficult to read and comprehend, but he also, as Barbara Bolt demonstrates in this clear, original guide to his oeuvre, provides an 'artists' guide to the world'. Heidegger Reframed grounds Heidegger's writings in the critical...
Political Islam and the Secular State in Turkey
Democracy, Reform and the Justice and Development Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy? The rise to power in 2002 of the right-leaning Islamic Justice and Development Party ignited fears in the West that Turkey could no longer be relied upon to provide a buffer against the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. But the contribution...
Beyond Feminism and Islamism
Gender and Equality in North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Are women in North Africa and the Middle East 'feminist'? Or is being a Muslim incompatible with feminism? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic feminism'? Through interviews with Moroccan activists and jurists - both male and female - and by situating these interviews within their socio-political and...
Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt
Politics, Society and Interfaith Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
he subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East – and indeed in the West – attracts much academic and media attention. Nowhere is this more the case than in Egypt, which has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, estimated at 6-10 per cent of the national population. Henrik...
The Arab World and Latin America
Economic and Political Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
With the growing importance of emerging markets the focus of analysts has begun to concentrate on the contribution of Latin America and the Middle East to the global economy, and the relations between these two regions. This has become ever more important with the trend in Latin America to diversify...
Sustainable Cities
Assessing the Performance and Practice of Urban Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met. Examining the built environment at three levels of observation - individual buildings, urban neighbourhoods, and entire cities and towns, the first part of the book reveals the scale of the task. The...
Architecture in Abjection
Bodies, Spaces and their Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew.
Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture – which presents the body as subject and space as object – it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened. Zuzana Kovar thus engages...