Social and ethical issues

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From the Trappist monk and author of The Seven Storey Mountain, reflections on the way to moral and social change in a violent world.

Originally published in 1982 The Strategy of Equality examines public expenditure on the social services as a strategy for promoting social equality.

In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy.

This Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children's lives.

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeedCollege has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless of background.

State responses to feminicide in Latin America, characterised in many cases by indifference and incompetence, have caused global concern.

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Accounting for the Holocaust: Enabling the Final Solution reveals how accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-like efficiency and devoid of any moral considerations.

CHRONIC PAIN AND HIV: a practical approach Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS often experience chronic pain due to the many diseases and infections they pick up as a result of a weakened immune system.

The exercise of discretion in the criminal justice system and related agencies often plays a key part in decisions which are made, but definitions of discretion are not clear, and despite widespread recognition of its importance there is much controversy on its nature and legitimacy.

Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Acts: Annotations and Commentary remains the indispensable guide to the key legislation governing Irish property law, written by the leading authority in this area of law, JCW Wylie.

Why does ethnicity matter in certain societies and contexts but not in others?

There is a strong link between organisational culture and profit after all a happy workforce is a productive workforce.

This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden.

Williams traces the South West Africa People''s Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.

Why we matterVon Kindesbeinen an zieht es Ana Milva Gomes auf die Bühne.

Educating students with disabilities is a team process.

Sex Therapy: The Basics offers an introduction to modern sex therapy and is essential reading for anyone working professionally with sexual issues or just interested in sex.

This volume examines the experiences of Sao Paulo's working class during Brazil's Old Republic (1891-1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, discrimination, migration, and World War I.

This book addresses the fundamental ethical and legal aspects, penal consequences, and social context arising from a citizen's acceptance of guilt.

Examines how and why the US government went from regulating illicit drug traffic and consumption to declaring war on both.

The quality of the assessment of children in need has a significant impact on outcomes for the children concerned.

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies.

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art.

Human geopolitics, the competition for population rather than territory, is an essential but weakly understood dimension of world politics today.

Recovers and analyzes novel manuscripts and post-publication revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship.

Robin Hofmann zeigt im vorliegenden Buch, wie in der Flüchtlingskrise die neue europäische Sicherheitsarchitektur zunehmend an ihre Grenzen stößt.

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Hubrettungsfahrzeuge können neben ihrer originären Funktion, der Sicherstellung eines zweiten Rettungsweges, auch sinnvoll Maßnahmen zur Brandbekämpfung einleiten oder diese wirkungsvoll unterstützen.

The objective of this book is to report on contemporary trends in the defence research community on trust in teams, including inter- and intra-team trust, multi-agency trust and coalition trust.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries on the globe.

Landscape and animals have been fundamental elements of Turkish culture from the Ottomans to the present day.

Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness.

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS.

Raymond Cattell, the father of personality trait measurement, was one of the most influential psychologists in the twentieth century, the author of fifty-six books, more than five hundred journal articles and book chapters, and some thirty standardized instruments for assessing personality and intelligence in a professional career that spanned almost seventy years.

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Argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic process.

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940's killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century.

Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth.

This book explores the arrival and development of Muslim immigrant communities in Britain and Germany during the post-1945 period through the case studies of Newcastle upon Tyne and Bremen.

The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies.