Social and ethical issues

As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster.

This work examines mass shootings in the United States, focusing on events from 1966 to 2016.

Goldberg uses a multi-media approach to critically examine the most significant and volatile issues of our times: the environmental crisis, upheavals in the developing world, health, terrorism, and technology.

In jahrzehntelanger Forschung haben die beiden Wissenschaftler Richard Wilkinson und Kate Pickett empirische Daten gesammelt und ausgewertet, anhand derer sie den Einfluss der Ungleichheit auf eine Vielzahl der drängendsten sozialen Probleme entwickelter Gesellschaften untersuchen.

Translated by Carl Ipsen.

Tender, ruminativeFugard has been anatomizing the evils of apartheid, and the troubling legacies it left behind, throughout his long and distinguished career.

Children need to be able to disclose their experiences of sexual abuse in order to stop the abuse and get help.

This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries' social housing sectors, and showing what conditions have decisively impacted these processes.

Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes.

This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world.

Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state of modern professional work in the United States.

Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children''s experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

This book tells the story of what happens when the "e;adventure"e; of living in Spain turns complicated due to the emergence of care needs derived from loss of autonomy.

Der Band analysiert und diskutiert die gegenwärtigen Ursachen, Formen und Bedingungen von Ungleichwertigkeitsideologien in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft einerseits und zeigt andererseits mögliche gesellschaftliche und pädagogische Handlungsstrategien auf.

For centuries, societies have relied upon residential care settings to provide homes for children, and for much of that period a debate has raged over whether such settings are appropriate places for children to be raised.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book examines the history of refugees in order to explore their place in international politics.

This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political arenas in which it has unfolded.

Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries.

Examining inequality through the lenses of moral traditionsRising inequality has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years from scholars and politicians, but the moral dimensions of inequality tend to be ignored.

This book explores marijuana from a variety of angles, including its impacts on the brain and body, potential for abuse, and legal status.

Winner of the 2014 Davitt Award for Best True Crime Book and the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface And so, as police were confiscating bedsheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began.

Written by renowned experts, Introduction to Homeland Security, Sixth Edition, informs users about the concepts and bedrock principles of homeland security.

Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice.

This book is about unequal development and labour in Brazil, with particular reference to the economic and social development of the Northeast region, which has suffered persistent disadvantage.

Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Recently, the National Center for Victims of Crime reported annual figures showing 103,845 children were sexually abused, while in that same year there was a 20% increase in all rape incidents and a 33% increase in sexual assaults.

Originally published in 1998, Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora examines the lives and the continuing ritual traditions of the Mayas in the United States.

Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

Welche Handlungskompetenzen benötigen Fachkräfte der Kindertagesbetreuung, um Kinder mit sexualisierten Gewalterfahrungen im pädagogischen Alltag unterstützen zu können?

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLearn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new book that demonstrates the importance of muscle for health and longevity from the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine .

Despite substantial economic growth, India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world's stunted children.

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food.

A multidisciplinary examination of the most current research in the complex issue of violence and violent behavior.

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities.

An in-depth philosophical study of the nature and immorality of revenge.

Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed.

Academic freedom allows members of institutions of higher learning to engage in intellectual pursuits without fear of censorship or retaliation, and lies at the heart of the mission of the university.

This fourth edition of the leading authority on international sale of goods law provides clear, comprehensive and detailed analysis of the subject.

A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community.

Unsere Demokratie wird angegriffen – von innen wie von außen.

As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment - we are all vulnerable subjects.

Civil war in the United States is now a mainstream topic due to apparent signs of ongoing planning.

Increasingly, everyday living and practices depend on how mobility (and immobility) is articulated through the ever-present influence of a range of physical and virtual infrastructures.