Sociology and anthropology

The first text of its kind to trace the combined history of Latino groups in the United States from 1500 to the present day.

Just Plain Data Analysis teaches students statistical literacy skills that they can use to evaluate and construct arguments about public affairs issues grounded in numerical evidence.

In the aftermath of suicide, friends and family face a long road of grief and reflection.

How does culture affect child-rearing practices?

Public Sociology, 2nd edition offers a fundamental enriching of method far beyond the scope of research methodology textbooks.

Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms.

The essays collected in World in Motion all address the same issue: The global paradox that modern prosperity has entailed extreme environmental degradation.

The Jokes of Sigmund Freud unravels the intimate connections between Sigmund Freud and his Jewish identity.

This thoroughly revised second edition offers a child-centered, international perspective as it urges America to de-stigmatize alternate family forms.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

This essential reference work enables a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges in the lives of American Indians and Alaskan Natives today, carefully reviewing their unique problems and proposing potential solutions.

This text covers over 2,000 years, tracing the roots of the contemporary Mexican-American.

Ideal for high school students and undergraduates, this volume explores contemporary life and culture in Libya.

Men Are from Earth, Women Are from Earth is a self-help book for couples in conflict.

This book provides social work practitioners and allied professionals with an applied understanding of the formal legislation, policy and guidance relating to young people who are considered 'at risk' of, accused of, or convicted of involvement in offending or anti-social behaviour.

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Taking the long view of conflicts between truth and political powerWhat role does truth play in government?

Political repression often paradoxically fuels popular movements rather than undermining resistance.

Working Out Desire examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women.

This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal's 1999 national ban on "e;female genital mutilation"e;The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on "e;Female Genital Mutilation"e; in 1999.

The Desert Experience in Israel shares the responses of settlers, artists, poets, scientists, and educators who lived near the Blaustein Institute in the Negev Desert of Israel as they answer the question, "e;What difference has living in the desert year round made in your work?

Increasing overseas traveling, booming Internet and electronic communication, and expanding global social ties are primary features of intensifying global connectivity and integration.

The new millennium has seen a variety of parenting styles that differ greatly from previous generations.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice?

How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice?

The financial services sector is critical to the economy and represents a vital component of our nation's critical infrastructure.

Place, Setting, Perspective examines the films of the Italian filmmaker, Nanni Moretti, from a fresh viewpoint, employing the increasingly significant research area of space within a filmic text.

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women-and Men symposium.

Someone Out There is Listening tells the story of Eddie Hazell, a jazz guitar player and vocalist with a unique style unmatched in the last half century.

The Economic Process transforms economic theory from a linear, sequential discipline into a structure in which events happen simultaneously and are strictly interrelated.

Intended for young readers interested in creating and maintaining physically and emotionally healthy relationships, this book answers common questions and offers practical guidance on navigating such everyday issues as conflict resolution and jealousy.

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Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States.

How can we make sense of race in Europe?

Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made recognizes limitations in contemporary understandings that separate history and rhetoric.

This book examines how the media-including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction-has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States.

This book gives a complete history of the American bathroom and describes how the smallest yet most complex room in the American house is at the nexus of personal behavior and public investment.

Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth cliches of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media.

In Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives, Edwards and Goj expose one of the biggest myths operating in health care and human services for forty years or more.

Although Lipan Apache culture was studied by one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, many important questions remain.

In this book, Mocombe illustrates ways that Barack Obama is the embodiment of the social identity, the liberal black Protestant heterosexual male, that contemporarily looks to serve as the bearer of ideological and linguistic domination for all folks, blacks, whites, Asians, etc.

An in-depth glossary, this accessible book successfully introduces students to the key concepts and terms used in social research.

Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy.

Contemporary Western societies seem to be marked by a revival of ethics: virtually every actor claims to be doing something 'good', or even to be willing to 'change the world'.

This is a definitive study of films that have been built around the themes of love, death, and the afterlife-films about lovers who meet again (and love again) in heaven, via reincarnation, or through other kinds of after-death encounters.

Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realismThis new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic alternative to both positivism and postmodernism.

Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry.

For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future.