Sociology

Product design touches every aspect of modern life, determining the form and function of the products and technologies that we use every day.

Introduction to Global Logistics offers a step-by-step guide to global logistics.

Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.

Supply Chain Finance is a contributed book looking at the two major perspectives of managing finance across the supply chain.

WINNER: Les Plumes des Achats 2016 - Prix des Associations (1st edition)Over the last two decades Tesco has emerged as a dominant player in the UK market and a leading global retailer.

Hyper competition and globalization mean that markets are changing.

Buying, merchandising and the supply chain are inextricably linked.

Twenty-first-century supply chains have evolved into world-wide inter-connected supply-and-demand networks comprising vastly more complex operations, with profound inter-dependencies and exposure to greater volatility in our uncertain world.

While the Baby Boomer generation has consistently commanded widespread attention-both scholarly and popular-little has been written about Generation X, the 46 million Americans born between the mid-1960s and late 1970s.

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

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.

Race is once again a contentious topic in America, as shown by the divisive rise of Donald Trump and the activism of groups like Black Lives Matter.

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

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.

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.

Modern warehouses are capitalizing on cutting-edge technologies, new operating models and innovative practices to maximize their role in the wider supply chain.

Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles.

The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

This is Book 7 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society?

Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems.

The Persian Gulf conflict was the first major combat test for U.

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place.

artWork: Art, Labour and Activism brings together a variety of perspectives on contemporary cultural production and activism in order to interrogate how the concepts of art, labour and activism intersect in practices for social change.

artWork: Art, Labour and Activism brings together a variety of perspectives on contemporary cultural production and activism in order to interrogate how the concepts of art, labour and activism intersect in practices for social change.

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.

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

Teaching Teens About Relationships describes how to teach a relationships course for adolescents.

Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo designs.

Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo designs.

The economic crisis of recent years continues to have a profound effect on the lives of European citizens.

The economic crisis of recent years continues to have a profound effect on the lives of European citizens.

A Book of the Year for The New Yorker and Electric Lit and a Time Out 10 Best Books of 2025From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, genre-busting story of outlaw love.

How do you measure the progress countries are making in economic development?

The annual performance review is no longer a viable instrument for managing human performance in modern organizations.

Dieses Buch analysiert systemische Prinzipien zur Erfullung von Engagement-Bedurfnissen mittels gezielter Mikrolern-Fuhrungsimpulse.

Why does America feel so reactive, exhausted, and divided?

America was born in the most unique way in human history.

Dieses Buch analysiert, wie psychologische Sicherheit Teamzusammenhalt von oberflachlicher Kooperation zu tiefer innovativer Synergie transformiert.

"e;Make Holidays Your Own"e; is about ways to celebrate July 4 as "e;Interdependence Day"e; and to make Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, and other holidays less commercial and more meaningful and inclusive.

Der Preis der Likes ist eine ruhige, analytische Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, wie digitale Medien Wahrnehmung, Vergleich und soziale Nahe verandern.

This book analyzes how 90-day programs create structural commitment that transforms coaching into recurring revenue architecture.

"e;No cuentas con nada ni con nadie y lo unico que va a pasar es que te van a matar en la siguiente y nadie se va a enterar ni a nadie le va a importar"e;, le dijo uno de sus maestros a Hector Castillo cuando este se recuperaba de la golpiza que recibio tras publicar su libro El basurero: antropologia de la miseria.

Esoterik ist uberall - in Coaching, Popkultur, Selbstoptimierung, Heilversprechen und digitalen Gemeinschaften.

En anos recientes, el interes en la obra de Norbert Elias (1897-1990), sociologo de origen judio-aleman, ha sido creciente.

El Gobierno nos aconseja tener a punto un kit de emergencia, la Union Europea nos advierte que la guerra puede salpicarnos, mas o menos cerca, a la clasica o la moderna con caidas de sistemas o armas biologicas, los expertos alertan que las catastrofes por exceso de calor, sequias o lluvias torrenciales se acentuaran, que vendran nuevas epidemias, que no podemos confiar en que las rutas comerciales se mantengan abiertas.

Entre 1770 y 1820, la ciudad de Mexico fue escenario de una economia urbana donde el tabaco ocupo un lugar estrategico.