A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion.
Interrogating the notion of medical knowledge and public health practices in colonial India, this volume explores the complex encounters between Western medical systems and indigenous healing traditions during British rule.
Interrogating the notion of medical knowledge and public health practices in colonial India, this volume explores the complex encounters between Western medical systems and indigenous healing traditions during British rule.
Der Sammelband zielt darauf Leistungen und Potenziale soziologischer Analysen in Theorie und Empirie anhand von Beispielen aus unterschiedlichen thematischen Zusammenhangen sichtbar zu machen.
Der Sammelband zielt darauf Leistungen und Potenziale soziologischer Analysen in Theorie und Empirie anhand von Beispielen aus unterschiedlichen thematischen Zusammenhangen sichtbar zu machen.
A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: G (Good), University of Dalarna (Master Programme of European Political Sociology), language: English, abstract: The collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s was one of the most important occurrence in the 20th century.
The Social Dynamics of Family Violence explores family violence through the life course, from child abuse and neglect to intimate partner violence and elder abuse.
Das Buch zeigt neue Wege, um Innovationen zum Erfolg zu führen – trotz aller Ungewissheit: Im Mittelpunkt stehen das Management des Informellen und ein neuer Blick auf menschliche Arbeit.
Project Report from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Work, Education, Organisation, grade: 1,0 (A), National University of Singapore (Department of Sociology), course: Sociology of work, language: English, abstract: The impact of organizational practices such as recruitment and performance appraisal on gender relations in society has received extensive attention from a number of researchers.
The Social Dynamics of Family Violence explores family violence through the life course, from child abuse and neglect to intimate partner violence and elder abuse.
This book investigates the transformative relationship between soccer and women in the 21st century, a time when football has increasingly embraced femininity and women have gained unprecedented visibility and empowerment in the digital soccer landscape.
This thought-provoking and innovative book argues for the importance of leisure studies as a lens through which to understand and interrogate our 'hypermodern' society.
Doing Research from your Desk: A Student Guide to Qualitative Methods provides invaluable guidance for students conducting high-quality qualitative research remotely.
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding.
Drawing on the influence of Collins' Black Feminist Thought, this book explores how Latinx feminists create theories about intersecting inequalities via their social movement practices-particularly as these relate to reproductive justice.
Doing Research from your Desk: A Student Guide to Qualitative Methods provides invaluable guidance for students conducting high-quality qualitative research remotely.
This book investigates the transformative relationship between soccer and women in the 21st century, a time when football has increasingly embraced femininity and women have gained unprecedented visibility and empowerment in the digital soccer landscape.
Drawing on the influence of Collins' Black Feminist Thought, this book explores how Latinx feminists create theories about intersecting inequalities via their social movement practices-particularly as these relate to reproductive justice.
Uncovering evidence that ancestor veneration was deeply rooted in Wari society, shaping Wari expansion, rituals, and statecraftThis volume examines the central role of ancestors in Andean society during the Wari Empire of the Middle Horizon period (6001000 CE), centuries before the rise of the Inca.
This thought-provoking and innovative book argues for the importance of leisure studies as a lens through which to understand and interrogate our 'hypermodern' society.
This eminently timely volume offers a critical examination of the educational experiences of white working-class boys, interrogating the impact of neoliberal education policies, hegemonic masculinity and the increasing influence of digital culture on how they engage, or disengage, with schooling.
Featuring beautiful photographs of Malaysia along with insightful historical commentary, this visual guide to Malaysia is a wonderful exploration of Asia's tropical peninsula.
Uncovering evidence that ancestor veneration was deeply rooted in Wari society, shaping Wari expansion, rituals, and statecraftThis volume examines the central role of ancestors in Andean society during the Wari Empire of the Middle Horizon period (6001000 CE), centuries before the rise of the Inca.
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding.
Injecting Substance Use, Recovery and Critical Harms: Understanding the Complexities of the Drug Problem provides an important overview into the history, drivers and consequences of drug injecting, what sustains it and why problems continue to surprise clinicians, policy-makers and politicians.
Injecting Substance Use, Recovery and Critical Harms: Understanding the Complexities of the Drug Problem provides an important overview into the history, drivers and consequences of drug injecting, what sustains it and why problems continue to surprise clinicians, policy-makers and politicians.
Featuring beautiful photographs of Malaysia along with insightful historical commentary, this visual guide to Malaysia is a wonderful exploration of Asia's tropical peninsula.
Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies rethinks how we understand human mobility by placing the sensing, feeling body at the centre of migration research.
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics.
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics.
