Social and ethical issues

Nearly 370 million people in China smoke; about one-third of all smokers in the world are in China; and about 1.

With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975.

Presenting field work conducted by fourteen Canadian and Sudanese-born Canadian researchers between 2003 and 2011, Canada in Sudan, Sudan in Canada explores salient and timely issues faced by both countries.

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropyIs philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today's democracy?

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans, collectively change and shape the technology and services used in healthcare.

Die staatliche Inobhutnahme, also die stationäre Unterbringung von Kindern, soll deren Schutz gewährleisten.

Yvonne Albrecht zeigt in ihrem Buch auf, dass es sinnvoll ist, die generellen Funktionen von Emotionen innerhalb gegenwärtiger Migrationsprozesse in den Blick zu nehmen.

What makes curating feminist organizing?

Nur wenige Spezies unserer urbanen Fauna werden leidenschaftlicher verachtet als der Hipster.

Was meinen Rechtsextreme, wenn sie von Islamisierung, Geschlechtergleichschaltung oder Schuldkult sprechen?

The United States has spent two productivedecades implementing a variety of prevention programs.

The social fund has been a controversial instrument of social policy in the UK since its introduction in 1988.

This publication titled, ';Scheduled Castes/Harijan in India' provides readers with an introduction to scheduled castes in India.

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and moreFrom the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St.

This book discusses the history of music warning labels, specifically the Parental Advisory Label (PAL), and the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC).

Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today.

Edward S.

Violence is more than an issue in America.

A staple of postwar academic writing, "e;nationalism"e; is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction.

On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "e;parole of honor"e; offered by General Montcalm.

John J.

This book presents six scholarly examinations of emerging issues in criminology and criminal justice as they impact LGBTQ+ people.

In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001.

An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.

Die Sowjetunion bildete Hunderttausende junge AfrikanerInnen aus.

How does an extended stay in Japan influence Indian migrants' sense of their identity as they adapt to a country very different from their own?

'[A] vivid, inquiring memoir.

I am here.

This book is designed to be the definitive statement on social equity theory and practice in public administration.

What corporate corruption, sexual abuse by clergy, and schoolyard bullying all have in common In the on-going attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no less damaging and equally unjustifiable.

The technical progress illustrated by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), online platforms, NBICs, autonomous expert systems, and the Blockchain let appear the possibility of a new world and the emergence of a fourth industrial revolution centered around digital data.

Globalization, consumerism, legislation and human rights issues impact on workplace demographics, changing the very nature thereof.

Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights argues for an expansive definition of human rights, one that encompasses the harm caused by multiple, intersecting forms of subordination.

New Generation Korean Workbook serves as an invaluable companion to the New Generation Korean: Beginner Level textbook, supporting students in acquiring essential reading, writing, and comprehension skills in the Korean language.

When we think of gangs, we are likely overcome with images of fear and violence.

This Handbook compiles leading international research on the regulation of the sharing economy from a range of academic disciplines.

For over twenty-five years, Charles C.

Whilst they retain a recognisable common core, probation systems round the world are enormously varied, and many are in a state of rapid change.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the discourse on health in India, examining governance, policies, programmes, and the involvement of the state and civil society in ensuring health for all and especially for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Modern scholars of most major religious traditions, who seek gender egalitarian interpretations of their scriptural texts, confront a common dilemma: how can they produce interpretations that are at once egalitarian and authoritative, within traditions that are deeply patriarchal?

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts.

There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora.

Transidentität ist die fehlende Übereinstimmung von körperlichem und gefühltem Geschlecht.

Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package.

In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria.

In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy?

Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, this book casts a critical light on the intersections between medicine and law, and the ideologies infusing the notions of "e;individual choice"e; and "e;patient involvement"e; in the field of addiction globally.