Sociology

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context.

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time.

This book explores how our temperamental proclivities interact with our political leanings, shedding light on why people perceive the world differently.

This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents.

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

This book presents different dietary patterns, some utilizing wild foods and others facing drastically changing dietary patterns, and shows their implications for health in terms of wealth, mutual assistance, food sufficiency and food diversity.

This book presents the frontier research of toxicology and health risk assessment of chemicals.

This book presents the knowledge of rice chemistry and nutrition.

This book provides new theoretic and applied material with focus on quantitative methods and data analysis techniques applied in demography, population studies, health issues and statistics.

This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis.

This book explores how our temperamental proclivities interact with our political leanings, shedding light on why people perceive the world differently.

This book provides new theoretic and applied material with focus on quantitative methods and data analysis techniques applied in demography, population studies, health issues and statistics.

This book integrates the research progress of Tryptophan (Trp) and its metabolites in animal nutrition and human health.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water and associated adverse outcomes is one of the major health issues in more than 50 countries worldwide.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

Over the decades, academic literature has too often neglected the complexities and diversity of the African continent and the challenges faced by both multinational companies working across Africa and domestic African companies, particularly in the field of human resources.

This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture.

This book examines an emergent pattern of international student mobility: that of international students from across the African continent who are enrolled on degree programmes at Chinese universities.

This is the first socio-legal multi-jurisdictional study on hazing (ragging).

This book brings together different intercultural philosophical points of view discussing the philosophical impact of what we call the 'appropriated' religions of Southeast Asia.

In this book, Riitta Hujanen explores temporality in the context of Catholic enclosed contemplative traditions.

Over the decades, academic literature has too often neglected the complexities and diversity of the African continent and the challenges faced by both multinational companies working across Africa and domestic African companies, particularly in the field of human resources.

This book contains contributions from diverse perspectives and traditions that focus on reflections and happiness practices.

This book explores the developmental direction of the modernization of China's basic public services in the context of national governance modernization.

This book contains contributions from diverse perspectives and traditions that focus on reflections and happiness practices.

This book addresses increasing concerns regarding the relationship between social capital and disaster, highlighting conceptual definitions related to social capital and disaster, family, community, vulnerability, disaster experience, and preparedness.

This book explores the developmental direction of the modernization of China's basic public services in the context of national governance modernization.

This book offers a systematic and multifaceted analysis of the Greens on the levels of political philosophy, political concepts, social movement, political parties, and political ideology.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the benefits and advantages of adopting technology-driven learning as a central pillar of the universities' teaching, learning, research, and social-responsibility strategies.

This monograph presents the migratory journey and personal experiences of immigrant professionals who live and work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – a remote region of the United States which heavily relies on a group of professional immigrants to provide various services to the local community.

This book offers a systematic and multifaceted analysis of the Greens on the levels of political philosophy, political concepts, social movement, political parties, and political ideology.

The book shows you how you can effectively integrate the latest findings of neuroscience into your everyday work or leadership.

This book describes a novel method for mortality modeling applying the shifting feature of the mortality curve.

This book approaches the subject of contemporary art by exploring the social embeddedness and identities of Singaporean artists.

This book explores the positive psychological aspects of religion and spirituality in the Indian context.

This book describes a novel method for mortality modeling applying the shifting feature of the mortality curve.

This book approaches the subject of contemporary art by exploring the social embeddedness and identities of Singaporean artists.

This book explores the positive psychological aspects of religion and spirituality in the Indian context.

In this book, Riitta Hujanen explores temporality in the context of Catholic enclosed contemplative traditions.

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with respect to remediation.

There is a poetic convergence between the struggles of people on the move and people in the peripheries of power, as they may collectively envision alternative forms of coexistence and fight together for fundamental rights and a dignified life.

This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed.

This book provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities for creating positive systemic change through research for development projects, providing four real-world examples.

Citizens in the contemporary era are increasingly residing in an age of constant migration, however, not all migratory movements are fully understood as migrants are often excoriated on entry to host countries.

This book provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities for creating positive systemic change through research for development projects, providing four real-world examples.

This book rethinks the anthropology of friendship from the perspective of theology and disability, and suggests the respect for human dignity and the person's vulnerability as the criterion in reconsidering such an anthropology.