Sociology

The role of a contracting professional begins well before the award of a contract and doesn't end until the benefits of the acquisition have been realised, long after the deliverables arrive in a box on a loading dock.

Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men.

Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance of-ten seem unclear.

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters.

Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century.

In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M.

Loisaida as Urban Laboratory is the first in-depth analysis of the network of Puerto Rican community activism in New York City's Lower East Side from 1964 to 2001.

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy.

In the early 1970s photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford left graduate school and a college teaching position in Boston, Massachusetts, packed his young family into a van, and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photographs, and film.

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the "e;everyday,"e; the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality.

In Exploded View "e;graphic"e; essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how illustration and text work together in print.

Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance of-ten seem unclear.

This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James Carey.

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity.

The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story.

In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama.

Savannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation.

Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles.

This text involves students in understanding and using the "e;tools"e; of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class.

Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else.

In The Writing of Where, Charles Lesh examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city.

In this highly original and engaging work, Sombatpoonsiri explores the nexus between humor and nonviolent protest, aiming to enhance our understanding of the growing popularity of humor in protest movements around the world.

In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater.

In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular-and increasingly grand-in Ireland.

As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut'a, temporary marriage.

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world.

English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse.

Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey's March for Justice and the ongoing struggle in Palestine.

Gems traces the experience of the Italian immigrant and illustrates the ways in which sports helped Italian-Americans adapt to a new culture, assert pride in an ethnic identity, and even achieve social advancement.

As the European Community moves toward full integration of its members' economies, one of the most far-reaching changes will be in the European labor market.

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy.

Cookery expert Marguerite Patten and nutritionist Jeannette Ewin tell you everything you need to know about eating for a healthy gut.

One of our most admired and loved psychologists turns her attention to the essence of the good relationship, and why we need enemies as well as friends.

This edition does not include illustrations.

For the quality of its research and the clarity of its synthesis, The Rise of Respectable Society will gain a reputation as an outstanding reinterpretation of the Victorian period.

Invaluable in providing vivid illustrations of the strengths and needs of young parents who have been 'looked after' and, therefore of their children at the start of their lives.

Self-harm in adolescents is an increasingly recognized problem, and there is growing awareness of the important role schools and health services can play in detecting and supporting those at risk.

Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most.

Fostered and adopted children can present major challenges resulting from unresolved attachment issues and early traumatic experiences.

Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.

This book provides practical guidance for a wide range of professionals working with parents and families, answering common questions such as 'How can parents facilitate their child's transition to secondary school?

This book is an examination of recent developments in the areas of youth justice and child protection.

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`The effects of social context and social structure on health are well documented.

Sustainability can create greater efficiency and cost savings in the supply chain.

Open, honest and upbeat, this book gives personal insight into both the ups and downs of an Asperger relationship.

Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families.

`This is the latest in a series of accessible, evidence-based resources from Jessica Kingsley Publishers for those seeking to understand and promote young people's mental health.