Social groups, communities and identities

This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore.

This wide-ranging collection analyzes the status and advancement of women both in a national context and collectively on a global scale, as a powerful social force in a rapidly evolving world.

This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom.

Albert Scherr fasst zentrale Einsichten der sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskriminierungsforschung in einer leicht verständlichen Weise zusammen.

This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on "e;Other"e;, i.

Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people's affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways.

The story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs.

This unique encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy.

This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England.

This book is an attempt to understand suicide from the perspective of a group of men who decided to take their own lives.

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies.

This book explores the meanings and experiences of home among a group of lesbians who over the past five decades have sought to create alternative intimate and public living spaces.

This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside.

This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "e;proximity violence"e;.

This book explores an online support group for women who are infertile.

This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom.

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development.

This book explores the reflections and experiences of mothers of children aged 0-3 years that have attended universal parenting courses.

This book explores the work and legacy of Professor David Cesarani OBE, a leading British scholar and expert on Jewish history who helped to shape Holocaust research, remembrance and education in the UK.

World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century.

This book explains how cultural heritage can be a tool for enhancing urban agriculture and improving landscape and life quality.

Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorists, telling stories, offering perceptions on subject matter as far back as memory allows up to the exciting headlines of today.

Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the postWorld War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust.

This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the educational experiences of students, parents, and educators-transgender and cisgender-in the context of current debates about the inclusion of transgender people in schools.

This book is the first to explore 'old age' in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies.

This book presents an in-depth account of nine Black British women's experiences of violence and abuse.

This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women's experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability.

This book examines US President Barack Obama's characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes.

This book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value.

This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or 'managed' by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood.

This book discusses the current tendencies in women's representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives.

This book examines the university experiences of first-in-family university students, and how these students' decisions to return to education impact upon their family members and significant others.

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements.

This book re-shapes thinking on 'gender gaps'-differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work.

As the former capital of two great empires-Eastern Roman and Ottoman-Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism.

This book examines policies and practices that relate to the education of female entrepreneurs in China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan.

This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces.

Practical advice for parents from parents, and proven techniques for raising hyperactive children without losing your temper.

Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas.

';If you buy that horse, you're buying your daughter's death warrant,' Jane Pohl's father was warned at the army barracks in the spring of 1941.

The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.

As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden.

This clearly written text explores the rational theology of Islam, the conflict between the "e;defenders of God"e; and the "e;defenders of reason"e;, and the controversy's historical roots.

It was a defining moment, the first time ';Jihadi John' appeared.

Tourists killed in Tunisia, Jihadi John targeted by drone strikes, carnage in Paris and hundreds of thousands of Syrians risking everything to reach Europe in an attempt to escape the violence.

Mormonism has only been around for less than two hundred years, but it has a large following in the United States.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld.