Social and ethical issues

Asians make up the largest and most dispersed peoples of the world, and Christians constitute a sizable proportion of this population.

This new edition of the landmark text Law and Society exposes readers to the dominant theoretical perspectives and sociological methods that are used to explain the interplay between law and society.

For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood.

In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie's Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty.

This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015.

Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification.

This book looks at how Australia's migrant population composition is likely to change over coming decades.

This book compiles a series of empirical and conceptual chapters based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory as the framework for understanding the overlapping and intersecting contexts that influence different populations of migrants in the United States and Canada.

This book analyses the mobilisation of race, rights and the law in Malaysia.

The book is based on two research projects on emergency intervention, which were carried out by the author and her colleagues.

Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived.

This book offers unique and flexible guidelines that can be used by practitioners to ease the process of breaking bad news to people with intellectual disabilities.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

Blindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others.

A revised and rewritten version of the best-selling textbook, described by Sociological Review as 'essential reading for every student of social policy.

Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality.

This book bridges the fields of critical youth studies, community psychology, and sociology to offer a transdisciplinary analysis of youth voice, participation, and activism, as well as of creative and inclusive knowledge-making practices.

Everybody passes.

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom.

This book revisits some of the persisting challenges of development of India, which remain unresolved even after twenty-five years of economic reforms and almost fifteen years of high growth rate.

This new textbook for students of social theory considers the role of public intervention in social and economic processes.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.

This book offers a close look at the discourse of and around three socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers, Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about how individuals within them position themselves vis-à-vis mainstream society.

Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives.

Legal aid for family cases in private law, mainly divorce and separation, where the state is not directly involved as it is in public law cases where there are issues of domestic violence or neglect or abuse of children, came to an abrupt end together with help for welfare and immigration cases on April 1 2013 when the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into effect.

This highly original and carefully researched work outlines the relationship between national and organizational culture, empirically investigates forms of organizational culture in Germany, and considers how economic performance and innovation are consequently affected.

AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.

In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm.

* What are attachment difficulties?

Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical.

Declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make China one of the more rapidly aging societies in the world.

Massive public protests have had a prominent presence at the turn of the millennium, with many thousands of protestors controlled by small, yet, increasingly specialized police forces.

40 Jahre beriet der Autor Menschen mit einer Krebserkrankung und gewann Einblick darin, wie sehr die Krankheit die energetische Struktur der Umgebung widerspiegelt.

The meaning of 'forgiveness' and its role within restorative justice are highly contested.

This path-breaking book analyses the experiences of young sporting women with physical impairments.

a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly writing a comprehensive critical survey of the literature on cultural heritage and tourism and associated issues in the fields of cultural and media studies over the previous decade.

Ever since the Shanghai convention in 1909, the threat posed to human well-being by drug abuse has led countries around the world to take action to deal with their drug problems.

This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally.

Privileged migrants, such as expatriates living abroad, are typically associated with lives of luxury in exotic locations.

Unerzogen, aufsässig, unverbesserlich – wer sich in der DDR nicht zur staatskonformen Persönlichkeit formen lassen wollte, erhielt solche Attribute und wurde oft in Umerziehungsheimen, Spezialkinderheimen, Jugendwerkhöfen weggesperrt.

This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the infamous 1981 bloodbath at the New Mexico Penitentiary.

An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation.

In "Heimatlos: Die Geschichte der menschlichen Vertreibung" entführt Anke Weidel die Leser auf eine faszinierende und tiefgründige Reise durch die Jahrhunderte der menschlichen Geschichte, geprägt von Flucht und Vertreibung.

HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections.

This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts.