Social and ethical issues

The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular fascination.

Values and their application are a continuing area of concern for those involved in work with children and families.

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women.

This timely book advances a new vision for educational justice centered on the leadership activities, organizing efforts, and counternarratives of youth, parents, families, and communities of color and other groups who are seeking to transform local schools and communities across the United States.

Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development.

Named an ALA 2024 Feminist Rise Book Project Winner * Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science Friday Best Science Book of Summer 2023 An eye-opening, transformative, and actionable journey through radical and compassionate community abortion care and support work: what it looks like, how each and every one of us can practice and incorporate it into our daily lives, and what we can imagine and build together in a post-Roe v.

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race and gender in multi-ethnic societies.

In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world.

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous.

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.

The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities.

Describes how child sexual abuse can occur in formal organizations and how organization theory can advance understanding of this phenomenon.

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts.

While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of citizenry.

This book brings a transnational perspective to the study of immigrant integration in contemporary Western European societies, with a specific focus on transnational Turkish Islam and Turkish integration in Great Britain.

This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration.

This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings.

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.

A useful theoretical analysis of the discourse surrounding women's deviancy.

This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life.

This book, grounded in a human rights framework, takes a close look at social work approaches and practices in Southeast Europe.

Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M.

Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence.

A Companion to Fritz Lang Fritz Lang s movie-making spans a major part of the history of cinema, across genres, styles, and national contexts.

Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to African-American people, it is a fact of history that their social oppression continued long after.

Juvenile Justice and Expressive Arts: Creative Disruptions through Art Programs for and with Teens in a Correctional Institution explores art programming as a sustainable educational initiative to support incarcerated teens' successful reintegration to society.

Atrocities by terrorists acting in the name of the 'Islamic State' are occurring with increasing regularity across Western Europe.

What causes disasters?

This book takes a critical macro-level political sociological perspective to understanding South African politics and society.

Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea.

This book examines how young men between the ages of 18 and 21 make the transition to prison life and how they adapt practically, socially and psychologically.

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The fascinating story of how Americans tried to save enemy lives amidst wartime calls for revenge.

In a world where the term Islam is ever-increasingly an inaccurate and insensitive synonym for terrorism, it is unsurprising that many Muslim youth in the West struggle for a viable sense of identity.

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

Anti-competitive business cartels, engaging in practices such as price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world.

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This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.

The present volume contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the "e;XX.

The end of the Pinochet regime in Chile saw the emergence of an organized feminist movement that influenced legal and social responses to gender-based violence, and with it new laws and avenues for reporting violence that never before existed.

Der Mensch verdrängt, blendet aus und kehrt unter den Teppich, um handlungsfähig zu bleiben.

The concept of transnationalism has been widely used for many years to describe mobility and cross-border relations in the modern, globalized world.

In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000.

Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies during this century?

Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J.