To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has recently come to the forefront. By integrating multiple disciplines as well as the expertise of partners from the societ...

From its very beginning, the specialty chemicals group Clariant has been in a continual process of transformation. This, the first book-length study of the company, gives an insightful account of its historical foundations, starting with the successf...

In recent decades, many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. In "Food for Thought", Julia Bernstein conducts a widely interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrant...

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid Boger shows in "Envisioning the Nation", at the same time the fairs played i...

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...