Sociology and anthropology

This book examines the UK's enduring 'permacrisis'-austerity policies, Brexit, climate change, inflation, and the rising cost of living-through the lens of the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a policy continuum.

First published in 1993, Computers into Classrooms critically examines computers and their uses in teaching and learning.

First published in 1993, Computers into Classrooms critically examines computers and their uses in teaching and learning.

Originally published in 1992, this book is an original contribution to overcoming the impasse of 'totalizing' theories in the sociology of development by arguing for an actor-oriented approach to the analysis of social change.

This book extends and develops the theoretical framework of Public Service Logic (PSL).

Originally published in 1992, this book is an original contribution to overcoming the impasse of 'totalizing' theories in the sociology of development by arguing for an actor-oriented approach to the analysis of social change.

The Armed Conflict Survey 2025 provides an exhaustive review of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of active armed conflicts globally in the period from 1 July 2024-30 June 2025.

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States.

Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings offers a new and original perspective in translation studies.

This book studies religion through the eyes of some of its most influential, exemplary, and sometimes controversial people.

This book is an essential guide for students, researchers, and practitioners involved in qualitative research across various disciplines.

The Armed Conflict Survey 2025 provides an exhaustive review of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of active armed conflicts globally in the period from 1 July 2024-30 June 2025.

Since its introduction in 1948 the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has generally been regarded with veneration.

This book is an essential guide for students, researchers, and practitioners involved in qualitative research across various disciplines.

Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings offers a new and original perspective in translation studies.

This book extends and develops the theoretical framework of Public Service Logic (PSL).

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States.

Since its introduction in 1948 the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has generally been regarded with veneration.

First published in 1978, The Politics of Legitimacy by Frank Burton examines the ideology and politics of the Provisional IRA through the socio-historical conditions of Northern Irish society.

This book uncovers the vibrant yet complex world of China's internet literature, exploring how it thrives amid plagiarism debates and redefines intellectual property in the digital age.

First published in 1992, Technological Literacy and the Curriculum addresses the question 'what should technological literacy consist of?

This book delineates the contours of Muslim political articulation and its contribution to democracy in the Telugu region.

First published in 1970, Residential Life with Children gives a detailed account of residential work with children.

Now, as when this book was originally published in 1982, health services have shown themselves only too capable of absorbing a large share of the resources that nations have available for public and private expenditure.

First published in 1991, Understanding Technology in Education examines the role of technology in education, being the first to connect the social nature of technology with the education and training of young people.

Drawing on data from rural communities both within and outside Europe, the contributors to this volume, originally published in 1984, examine the character and significance of non-wage forms of labour - for example unpaid household agricultural and domestic work and inter-household or community-level labour exchanges.

Now, as when this book was originally published in 1982, health services have shown themselves only too capable of absorbing a large share of the resources that nations have available for public and private expenditure.

First published in 1992, Technological Literacy and the Curriculum addresses the question 'what should technological literacy consist of?

Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to pre-Soviet Russian social theory, tracing its evolution through the works of influential thinkers such as Pyotr Chaadaev, Leo Mechnikov, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Pavel Lilienfeld.

Using large sample surveys and statistical methods, this book examines Chinese family structure and family caregiving for the elderly.

Taking a sociological approach that stresses the dynamic interaction between teachers and students, Brian Heraud, in his book Training for Uncertainty (originally published in 1981), explores the process by which students are prepared for a professional role.

Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to pre-Soviet Russian social theory, tracing its evolution through the works of influential thinkers such as Pyotr Chaadaev, Leo Mechnikov, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Pavel Lilienfeld.

Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019.

This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of "e;event religion"e; for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective.

This book argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics.

This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of "e;event religion"e; for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective.

This book takes a critical approach to the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the media and communication landscape.

This book explores the new European cinema of precarity, with a particular focus on Western European films, by revisiting some of its most important precursors, including 1930s Popular Front films and 1990s French New Realism, Italian neorealism, and the British New Wave.

This book explores the new European cinema of precarity, with a particular focus on Western European films, by revisiting some of its most important precursors, including 1930s Popular Front films and 1990s French New Realism, Italian neorealism, and the British New Wave.

This book traces the construction of migrant space in Israel's urban periphery with a focus on the flat that Filipino care workers co-rent for their day-off and provides insight into the migrant lives and journeys in trans-local contexts.

This book traces the construction of migrant space in Israel's urban periphery with a focus on the flat that Filipino care workers co-rent for their day-off and provides insight into the migrant lives and journeys in trans-local contexts.

This book uncovers the vibrant yet complex world of China's internet literature, exploring how it thrives amid plagiarism debates and redefines intellectual property in the digital age.

While global justice is a hot topic in political philosophy, the place of children and children as a particular group of agents has been largely ignored.

This book will examine mentoring from a global perspective in an effort to discover the commonalties and differences, not only in diverse fields of practice, but across a wide range of contextual Place your subscription or standing order today!

This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century.

This work looks at cross-cultural lives and identities in the multicultural landscape.

This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan.

First published in 1991, Understanding Technology in Education examines the role of technology in education, being the first to connect the social nature of technology with the education and training of young people.

Management gets the credit for successes and takes the blame for failures whether it was their fault, the fault of staff, or a system failure.

Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers reflects an ethnographic journey shaped by ancestral strength, resilience, and reverence.