Sociology and anthropology

This book of peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistics and demography is the third of four volumes from the 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS 2024), held in Bari, Italy, on June 17-20, 2024.

This book introduces a pathbreaking approach called ‘Avoidable Disaster Deaths’ (ADD) to reduce disaster deaths.

This handbook brings together research and innovation across two important and related fields, quality of life (QoL) and addiction recovery.

In what ways does contemporary surveillance reinforce social divisions?

This handbook brings together research and innovation across two important and related fields, quality of life (QoL) and addiction recovery.

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

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).

The ongoing devastation in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, alongside the systematic destruction of Palestinian universities, has coincided with intensified censorship and repression within Western academic institutions.

The book aims to clarify from a demographic and geographical perspective how population trends of the Tohoku Region were changed as a result of the GEJED.

The book aims to clarify from a demographic and geographical perspective how population trends of the Tohoku Region were changed as a result of the GEJED.

This book delves into the development trajectories of rural Europe, with a specific focus on Italy.

This book delves into the development trajectories of rural Europe, with a specific focus on Italy.

By looking at leadership supervisory behaviors, along with the character of the supervisor themselves, as falling on a continuum of behaviors, this book offers fresh insights into the relationship between the leader/supervisor and their direct reports.

By looking at leadership supervisory behaviors, along with the character of the supervisor themselves, as falling on a continuum of behaviors, this book offers fresh insights into the relationship between the leader/supervisor and their direct reports.

The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may better frame the actual contribution of proximity to urban and mobility planning in different places.

The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may better frame the actual contribution of proximity to urban and mobility planning in different places.

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality.

This book identifies and examines the role of Baro Tumsa in clandestinely bringing together a few Oromo nationalists of diverse backgrounds from all over Oromia, the Oromo country, to establish the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) between the late 1960s and the mid- 1970s in Oromia and Ethiopia.

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality.

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question.

This handbook takes a comprehensive approach to studying and understanding modern slavery, particularly forced labour and human trafficking.

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question.

This book identifies and examines the role of Baro Tumsa in clandestinely bringing together a few Oromo nationalists of diverse backgrounds from all over Oromia, the Oromo country, to establish the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) between the late 1960s and the mid- 1970s in Oromia and Ethiopia.

An international panel of experts have contributed to create the first comprehensive guide to spiritual care focussing on the palliative care setting from neonatal to aged care, combining the theoretical underpinnings of spirituality research with practical applications for its introduction into patient care.

An international panel of experts have contributed to create the first comprehensive guide to spiritual care focussing on the palliative care setting from neonatal to aged care, combining the theoretical underpinnings of spirituality research with practical applications for its introduction into patient care.

This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aime Cesaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so will these early thinkers' ideas help in the building of a new Africa.

This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aime Cesaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so will these early thinkers' ideas help in the building of a new Africa.

This book examines psychosocial risk factors contributing to the development and maintenance of psychopathology in early childhood.

This book discusses a broad range of vital issues in public health, encompassing health facilities, the healthcare system, disease and epidemiological transition of disease, spatio-temporal change of health facilities, disease patterns, and the complex reciprocal relationship between human health and the environment.

This book discusses a broad range of vital issues in public health, encompassing health facilities, the healthcare system, disease and epidemiological transition of disease, spatio-temporal change of health facilities, disease patterns, and the complex reciprocal relationship between human health and the environment.

This book uniquely operationalizes "e;sustainable ageing"e; as a concept for reimagining ways by which: (1) social and health threats (i.

This handbook takes a comprehensive approach to studying and understanding modern slavery, particularly forced labour and human trafficking.

Despite significant theoretical advances in social and behavioural macroeconomics, little has been done to synthesise the disparate developments in these fields and point the way forward to future research directions and policy implications.

Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity is of interest for any reader wishing to explore the interface between literature, and critical and cultural theory.

In an increasingly globalised world, an understanding of the diversity in the concept and practice of employee wellbeing, how it is presented, experienced, regulated and contested, is particularly vital.

This book examines sustainability issues of 15 deltas in the world.

This book examines sustainability issues of 15 deltas in the world.

This book gathers the thoughts of 8 hospital presidents, 9 vice presidents focusing on construction management in hospitals, and 6 hospital architects regarding the hospital design and construction in China.

This book gathers the thoughts of 8 hospital presidents, 9 vice presidents focusing on construction management in hospitals, and 6 hospital architects regarding the hospital design and construction in China.

This book investigates age categorizations and stereotyping in job interviews by drawing on a multimodal discourse analytical approach.

This book addresses the climate risk influencing biodiversity globally and discusses the sustainable use of biological diversity and its legal implications.

This book is a practical guide for organizations ready to develop and implement relational contracts and want to prepare thoroughly to ensure a successful journey.

This book provides an accessible overview of one particular type of social panic: that of the phantom attacker.

Building on the notion of everyday(ness) as a conceptual tool and a study object in urban research, this book presents 10 case-studies describing and questioning how cities and urban spaces are lived, experienced, interpreted, (self-)produced and/or appropriated.

This book aims to capture the fading traditional knowledge systems of local and indigenous communities in the Himalayas.

The main topic is dispute resolution within specific Africa countries, and the journey of Africa becoming a global leader as the seat of dispute resolution, focusing on the mechanisms of mediation, arbitration, conciliation and negotiation.