For the first time, the four most popular restorative justice books in the Justice & Peacebuilding seriesThe Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, and The Little Book of Circle Processesare available in one affordable volume.
This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century.
When it comes to the gun control debate, there are two kinds of data: data thats accurate, and data that left-wing billionaires, liberal politicians, and media want you to believe is accurate.
This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.
';The author of this opinionated examination of the Northern Ireland ethos is self-described as an ';average Southern Irishman,' a World War II officer of the Irish army.
This volume explores the role of violence generally but with specific reference to African concepts and themes, and the significance they have for social redress.
A partir de un recorrido por la complejidad epistémica, social y política de los feminismos indígenas y comunitarios en América Latina, Victoria Martínez y Mariana Alvarado revisan conceptos clave de la modernidad hegemónica para visibilizar sus cuestionamientos en los pensares, decires y prácticas de resistencia y de lucha de las modernidades alternativas.
This volume explores the role of violence generally but with specific reference to African concepts and themes, and the significance they have for social redress.
Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism.
In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues.
ISIS rocketed onto the world stage seemingly out of nowhere, beheading American hostages, bulldozing international borders, routing the American-trained Iraqi army, and carving out a new state that rules eight million people and a territory larger than the United Kingdom.
Confronting the critics who say George Washington's victories were due to luck, not skill, Palmer proves why the father of our country also deserves the title of America's pre-eminent military strategist.
Our ancestors gathered around a fire in a circle, families gather around their kitchen tables in circles, and now we are gathering in circles as communities to solve problems.
Ive been waiting for this book for years a beautifully written, compelling study of the significance of the dense bonds of friendship in fostering and preserving progressive politics.
Versammlungen waren im frühmittelalterlichen Lateineuropa wichtige Institutionen: Hier handelten die Entscheidungsträger ihre Hierarchie aus, hier machten sie Politik, hier tauschten sie Informationen aus.
This volume fully illuminates the role of diversity in media representation, dissemination, and effects across various platforms, including social media.
The first volume in the Lucy Cavendish College Lecture Series, Coercion and Trust, provides a unique, multi-disciplinary dialogue on the complex links between coercion and trust from perspectives in the social sciences, medicine, and literature, combining high-quality academic research with professional recommendations.
The first volume in the Lucy Cavendish College Lecture Series, Coercion and Trust, provides a unique, multi-disciplinary dialogue on the complex links between coercion and trust from perspectives in the social sciences, medicine, and literature, combining high-quality academic research with professional recommendations.
Recommended and award-winning works of young adult literature featuring youth athletesprotagonists who are entangled not only in athletic competition but in the complications of life beyond the arenaoffer secure footholds that students can use to explore contemporary sociopolitical issues.
The Catholic Church still takes an ambivalent stance toward homosexuality, declaring that homosexuals should be respected and not discriminated against while morally condemning their intimate relationships.
In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism.
Leonora Messing war 15 Jahre alt, als sie aus ihrem Dorf in Sachsen-Anhalt verschwand und sich in Syrien dem Islamischen Staat anschloss, um Drittfrau eines deutschen IS-Terroristen zu werden.
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.
How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades?
