Social and ethical issues

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.

The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history the colonised and coloniser and a bold and innovative new portrait of both.

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.

This book is an essential toolkit for students and early researchers of population studies and demography, geography, economics, development studies political science, sociology, anthropology, and gender studies.

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.

** WINNER OF THE 2023 ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE ** AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** This is our world, as you've never seen it before.

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.

Drought draws together contributions from over 75 leading international researchers in the field to present the most comprehensive body of research on the physical and social dimensions of drought to date.

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.

In Sovereign Stories, Annette Angela Portillo examines Native American women's autobiographical discourses and multiple-voiced life stories that resist generic conventional notions of first-person narrative.

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?

In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "e;completion"e; of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China.

An introduction to the range of potential disaster scenarios, covering the issues and organizational relationships of importance to the student of consequence management.

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

Das Sichkümmern um Menschen ist kulturell verankert – welche Umstände bedingen welche Formen?

This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources.

This book focuses on discourses of effective learning environments globally for reducing discrimination in schools.

Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military history to include the realm of sexuality.

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race.

This new edition of a well-regarded, student-friendly textbook for journalism ethics has been extensively revised and updated to meet the needs of the 21st century journalist working in the digital age.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

Through an interdisciplinary analytic lens that combines debates emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology, Valeria Bello reveals how transnational dynamics have increased extremism, prejudiced attitudes towards others and international xenophobia.

Africa is known as a continent of conflict.

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory.

According to leading education analyst Chester Finn, a paradox lies at the heart of our educational trouble.

Pregnancy is a period of time that institutes great change in the lives of those who are pregnant.

This title was first published in 2003.

The first study of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, this book examines the war-time policy and operation of the planning department.