Social groups, communities and identities

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the human condition and offer insights on family, domestic space, and a changing environment.

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities-the 'digital polis'-and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies.

This title was first published in 1978.

September 11 has become a temporal and symbolic marker of the world's brutal entry into the third millennium.

Turning on its head that familiar "e;woman question,"e; this innovative work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation.

Alcohol has been central to social, religious and personal use throughout the history.

Religion and social action is both empowering and limiting for women.

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865.

The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?

This set of original articles probes the breadth of vital issues surrounding the impact of war and violence on women globally-and examines what is being done to mitigate their effects.

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States "e;A genre-bending work of reportage, memoir, and history"e; -The New Yorker"e;Candid, unflinching .

This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I's reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France.

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects.

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship.

The book explores how humans are distinct social beings whose relations nevertheless extend into nonhuman spheres in various ways.

This book explores the history, effects, diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue as well its significant links to other illnesses.

This book reports on the latest, cutting-edge scholarship on integrating social network and spatial analyses in the built environment.

We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nation's social fabric.

In this masterful work of family-focused sociology, Lois Benjamin considers the lives of Pennie and Roscoe James and their children, revealing how a large, close-knit African American family with humble origins in a small town of North Carolina is shaped by the contours of its religious and ethical value system.

"e;A classic tale of American initiative .

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children-in nearly any context.

This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905.

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy.

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do?

How can you make the most of retirement?

Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.

This timely volume identifies factors that impede the success of women in STEM professions and demonstrates the negative impact of sexual harassment on women's physical health, mental health, and job performance.

'Lucid, fluent and compelling' Observer'We need writers like Andrews .

Voices for Diversity and Social Justice: A Literary Education Anthology is an unflinching exploration through poetry, prose, and art of the heart of our educational system-of the segregation, bias, and oppression that are part of the daily lives of so many students and educators.

First published in 1998, this volume explores Singapore as an ideal case study for the examination of the management of postcoloniality, social diversity and the pursuit of economic growth with ethnic harmony.

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church.

With the rare researches that focus on the cross-cultural aspects, this book tends to investigate how Arab immigrants construct and use landscape and public space in Berlin as a host city.

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization.

Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung und Validierung des wertorientierten Modells für das strategische Gesundheitsmanagement in Beratungsunternehmen (WOGE-Modell), um die Zusammenhänge zwischen der gesundheitlichen Konstitution von Unternehmensberaterinnen und -beratern und deren Wertschöpfung zu untersuchen.

Understanding why so many people across the world are so poor is one of the central intellectual challenges of our time.

How much sex should a person have?

The Decline of Trade Union Organisation (1987) considers the reasons behind the decline in trade union membership and discusses the prospects for recovery.

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems.

A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one.

Main objective in this study is to make a sociological analysis of the trends and factors in the Growth of Ballia town during the period 1951-74.

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state's indigenous policy.

How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future?

Struggling to secure the right counselling or psychotherapy placement for you?

At a time of significant transformations in Chinese society, this book addresses the key issue of social welfare and the reform of the welfare system in 21st century China.

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.

Ageism is too often an accepted form of bias, even though the facts support the value of aging.