Social and ethical issues

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

This title was first published in 2001: This book explores the ways in which European educational systems influence culture, identity, ethnicity and politics and may reinforce ethnic or national cleavages, violence and warfare.

This volume focuses on the ways in which HIV/AIDS can affect older adults.

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics.

Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in the contemporary world.

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Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers.

The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future.

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.

While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography-as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category-is a modern invention.

This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness.

The internet has transformed the idea of home for Indians and Indian Americans.

"e;This thought-provoking work examines how the relationships of organs, tissues, and cells transferred from one body to another through donation, sale, or gift are mediated by the state, market, and family.

What does a nation owe its military veterans?

As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change.

The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use.

This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health.

First published in 1980, The Survivors is a detailed and original study of the experiences of homeless young people in central London.

The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States.

Those who work with children and young people have a responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare.

Explains the most effective ways to discuss the legal and financial responsibilities that come with the end of life and tools for managing them-such as wills, trusts, estate planning, and cash management-in the context of financial psychology.

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments.

James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.

This book helps adults to understand firesetting behaviour in children and teens and provides strategies to work with them to address the behaviour.

Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic frame-brothels, streets, and public day-wage labor markets (nakas), where sexual commerce may be solicited discretely alongside other income-generating activities.

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

The lives of women in rural India cannot be visualized without agriculture and allied activities.

What caused Australias housing crisis - and how we might fix itOne of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses.

Creative workers have been celebrated internationally for their flexibility in new labour markets centred on culture, creativity and, most recently, innovation.

Disability and International Development provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in the field of disability and development, including issues around identity, poverty, disability rights, education, health, livelihoods, disaster recovery and approaches to researching disability.

Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement.

First published in 1999, this volume is about unemployment and discrimination, with a focus on Northern Ireland and its debate over patterns of inequality between unemployed Catholics and Protestants.

As the voting public continues to diversify across the United States, political candidates, and particularly white candidates, increasingly recognize the importance of making appeals to voters who do not look like themselves.

Although the Kurds have attracted widespread international attention, Iranian Kurdistan has been largely overlooked.

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

First published in 1969, this volume presents a survey of the contemporary national education system in Latin American countries.

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era.

This book deals with the social exclusion of Romanies ('Gypsies') in Italy.

There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry.

Der Wirtschaftsjournalist Markus Götte führte im Auftrag des Kirchlichen Dienstes in der Arbeitswelt (KDA) Interviews mit aktiven und früheren Mitarbeitenden durch.

First published in 1989, this book analyses social welfare in countries with highly developed economies, at that time.

Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation to the transformations of neoliberal capitalism.

This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties.

Royaut� et politique: l'histoire de ma vie est un r�cit autobiographique fascinant d'une vie riche en controverses, celle de meneur d'hommes, anim�e par le sens du devoir, le go�t du r�sultat et la recherche de l'innovation.

Presenting cutting-edge work from leading scholars, this authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge on aggression from infancy through adolescence.

Leading scholars and practitioners address the challenges in the adjudication of refugee claims from those fleeing violence and conflict.

Miriam Morgan gibt Einblick in zahlreiche Unterschiede zwischen den Erziehungskonzepten von Erzieherinnen und Migranteneltern und ermöglicht gleichzeitig, alternative Erziehungskonzepte in ihrer Logik nachzuvollziehen.