Social and ethical issues

This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America.

One is usually conscious of tyranny and oppression; domination is more subtle.

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?

This invaluable reference text thoroughly examines the alarming epidemic of campus sexual assault, including a discussion of laws, high-profile cases, controversies, and proposed solutions.

Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities outlines and explains adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating resilience projects in cities and relates it to pressing contemporary policy issues related to urban climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Warum tötet eine Frau ihr Kind?

Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives.

Are children playing less than they used to?

Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic.

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality.

This is the first introductory sociology text to look at Britain in terms of its geographical position within Europe and its political and economic situation as a member of the European Union.

This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States.

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The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh took place as a result of the region's long history of colonization, the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into largely Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India, and the continuation of ethnic and religious politics in Pakistan, specifically the political suppression of the Bengali people of East Pakistan.

Now in a significantly revised sixth edition with 70% new material, this comprehensive handbook has introduced tens of thousands of practitioners and students to the leading forms of couple therapy practiced today.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

The Settler Colonial Present explores the ways in which settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination informs the global present.

Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies.

After the landslide election of a new Labour government in May 1997, what are the key social policy issues and problems which the new government needs to address?

In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions.

By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.

Service dogs play an important role in society, assisting their handlers in leading independent, fulfilling lives.

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain.

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Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.

This book, bringing together a multi-voiced dialogue between academic scholars and professionals from diverse fields, shares a comprehensive and heterogeneous look at the interdisciplinarity of Galician Studies while examining  a chronologically broad range of subjects from the 1800s to the present.

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What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'?

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

This book analyses the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on EU non-discrimination law and governance.

How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities?

Filled with fine-scale drawings of British armored vehicles, including:*; Stuart I Light Tank*; Crusader III*; Tank*; Humber Scout Car*; Valentine Bridgelayer*; Cromwell IV Tank Daimler Armored Car*; And dozens more .

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "e;democratic deficit,"e; Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies.

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.

Bringing together a group of intellectuals from a number of disciplines, this collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts.

The new edition of Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies.

This is the first book to explore women's leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources.

Transitional justice and diaspora studies are interdisciplinary and expanding fields of study.

Teachers' unions have long been controversial and divisive organizations, but criticism and distrust of them may be at an all-time high.

In a world that requires knowledge and wisdom to address developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create meaningful and lasting relationships.

Nomadic New Women: Exile and Border-Crossing between Spain and the Americas, Early to Mid-Twentieth Century examines how gender and sexuality, border-crossing and exile intersect in women's intellectual and artistic practices during the volatile historical period of the first half of the twentieth century, in and around Spain and the Americas.

This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime reduction and evaluation.

Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-informed framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those exposed to chronic emotional abuse or neglect.

This accessible text explores the staggering rise in inequality in recent years.

Das Handbuch bündelt alle wichtigen aktuellen Themen- und Arbeitsfelder in der psychosozialen Versorgung geflüchteter Menschen: von stationären Behandlungskonzepten über diagnostisches Fallverstehen bis zu Social Trauma.