Sociology and anthropology

In a rapidly changing climate, understanding the complex interactions between humans and wildlife is crucial for fostering coexistence.

Throughout the past years, the Orthodox world has seen numerous political and theological confrontations.

After more than 40 years of market reform and transformation, Chinese business associations have come to play an important role in China's economic and social system.

This handbook provides a comprehensive look into the emerging issues confronting ageing societies across the world.

The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and resolution.

Taking up the unique challenges of mega-crisis events, this book provides a framework for rethinking crisis approaches and designing a world that is better prepared to avoid or minimize these catastrophic events.

A Guide for Lewy Body Dementia Caregivers: Caring with Compassion is a daughter's heartbreaking yet hopeful account of her secondary caregiving journey for her mother who has Lewy body dementia (LBD).

Providing an overview of the knowledge and methods required by professionals working in a mandated setting with adults who have committed offences, Forensic Social Work presents evidence-based knowledge in an accessible way that can be directly translated to application in daily practice.

Negative images of Africa, which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged.

In today's complex and rapidly changing globe, understanding the link between social theory and social policy is crucial for addressing the diverse challenges that diverse societies face.

In today's complex and rapidly changing globe, understanding the link between social theory and social policy is crucial for addressing the diverse challenges that diverse societies face.

In the context of profound and widespread global transformations, driven by emerging socio-economic patterns and accelerated by technological advancements, there is a pressing need to redefine the concept of leadership and to understand why effective leadership is essential for navigating socio-economic change.

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language, and cultural cognizance, operate in tandem.

Ghosts in the Dating App Machine offers a critical examination of the shift to dating apps to illustrate key features of a broader shift to a mode of "e;data"e; colonialism based on datafication and AI orchestration.

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language, and cultural cognizance, operate in tandem.

This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time.

Drawing on original primary data, this book offers a comparative account of the European bookshop model, charting how it has evolved in the contemporary economy, how recent industry transformations have impacted it, and how bookshops have sought to adapt to new market conditions.

This book comprehensively covers various causal mediation analysis (CMA) methods developed across multiple fields, organizing them into a reader-friendly progression of methodological advancements.

This book aims to explain the self as understood decades ago and its evolution in the time of postmodernism.

This book aims to explain the self as understood decades ago and its evolution in the time of postmodernism.

This book investigates cohousing in Italy, a housing model that is both underused and often overlooked.

This book investigates cohousing in Italy, a housing model that is both underused and often overlooked.

This unique reference book represents sustainable development of UN for providing a proper life standard and mobility for people.

Dangerous Technologies focuses on the prevalent theft of consumer electronics in post-Apartheid South Africa.

This book covers nutrients, active principles from phytotherapy/herbal products, and drug classes while identifying potential interactions.

This book covers nutrients, active principles from phytotherapy/herbal products, and drug classes while identifying potential interactions.

This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over "e;culture"e; and narrative form from the modernist period to the present.

This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over "e;culture"e; and narrative form from the modernist period to the present.

This book, explores the complex moral and ethical dilemmas surrounding Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) and its recent classification in the ICD-11.

Research shows that when accessing and retaining work, and when seeking promotion, disabled people often face discrimination and disadvantage that can be unlawful.

Research shows that when accessing and retaining work, and when seeking promotion, disabled people often face discrimination and disadvantage that can be unlawful.

With a focus on the way the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic unfolded in Pakistan, this book casts a critical light on the unique experiences and responses of individuals, community and government.

This book offers a cross-civilizational and interdisciplinary approach to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) research to mitigate the problematiques of extant literature.

This book seeks to distinguish empirically-based knowledge from widespread misconceptions in the fields of legal and forensic psychology.

This book seeks to distinguish empirically-based knowledge from widespread misconceptions in the fields of legal and forensic psychology.

This comprehensive textbook equips students of economics and business, as well as industry professionals, with essential principles, techniques, and applications of applied statistics, statistical testing, and multivariate data analysis.

This textbook provides an overview of international drug policy using a comparative framework to explore contemporary drug issues.

In this book, Li Xiaoyun tries to address these questions that attract public attention in today's China.

In this book, Li Xiaoyun tries to address these questions that attract public attention in today's China.

Islamic schools are growing exponentially in the West to meet the demands of Muslim learners and their parents.

The edited volume discusses the long period of post-colonial developments in higher education in India.

This book highlights the key competencies and coping mechanisms needed by educational managers in an era of rapid change on a national and international scale.

This book critically examines how polycrisis is recontextualised and (ab)used in contemporary discourse from across Europe.

This book highlights the key competencies and coping mechanisms needed by educational managers in an era of rapid change on a national and international scale.

This book focuses on the indirect effects on environmental resilience.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in virtual remote work prompted a significant workforce shift from the office building to the home environment.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in virtual remote work prompted a significant workforce shift from the office building to the home environment.

This book is a comprehensive guide for health professionals working with psychoactive drug use and dependence who want to learn the nuts and bolts of the neuropsychology of substance use disorders.