Sociology and anthropology

Leisure is a key aspect of modern living.

Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force.

How do workers around the world balance risk and support to ensure that their practice meets the ever-changing needs of children and their families?

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.

Utilizing multiple perspectives of related academic disciplines, this three-volume set of contributed essays enables readers to understand the complexity of immigration to the United States and grasp how our history of immigration has made this nation what it is today.

On the part of the patient, healthcare demands unconditional trust in the professional.

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

Today's students of social science must understand a variety of research methods.

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

How will work be organised in the future?

This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions.

Experts address key issues-from attitudes and behaviors to harassment and homophobia-related to sexuality among college students.

'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of WildingA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.

The untold story of a British institution'Brilliant.

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

Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, this addition to the Culture and Customs of Africa series examines the contemporary cultures and traditions of modern Gambia, from religious customs to literature to cuisine and much more.

This book examines the century-long migration of African Americans who moved within the South after the Civil War and then left to settle permanently in other regions, irrevocably altering the political, social, and cultural history of the United States; and considers these movements within the broader historical, political, and cultural context of the African Diaspora.

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century.

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen'Dazzling' New York Times'A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife' Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark VanessaThirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France's most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man.

The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw DogsJohn Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world.

The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.

An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.

An international community of Reformed churches emerged during the sixteenth century.

An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements.

In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.

'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins.

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

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'.

When women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societiesIn Women's Work, Jennifer Moore presents a reimagined theory of peacebuilding and transformative justice based on the experiences and insights of women farmers and microentrepreneurs who lived through protracted civil conflicts, drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across ten communities-five in the Acholi region of Northern Uganda and five in the Moyamba and Koinadugu Districts of Sierra Leone.

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

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.

` Combining educational and clinical perspectives, and with extensive use of case studies, the authors present recent research into the mental health problems associated with school refusal, such as anxiety and panic attacks, as well as the role that parental support plays in their children's school life.

Dyslogical children are commonly labelled as having one or more of a mix of conditions that include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.

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

For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.

Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to children's social care.

Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject.

"e;This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K.

Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositionscreated by the official exclusion ofbanned sexual practices and theresistance to that exclusion throughwidespread acceptance of thoseoutlawed practices at an interpersonallevel.

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.

K'Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today's culinary tourism in the area.

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.

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.

Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.