Sociology and anthropology

Originally published in 1973, The Receiving End looks at the British welfare services for deprived children.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies.

In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools.

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research.

Is TV news racist?

Combining autobiography and ethnography, Damrong Tayanin examines the lifestyles, customs, practices, and beliefs of the Kammu people by describing his own early experiences.

Dissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the continent,s past are not rooted on the continent,s value system and philosophy.

Het Informatorium voor voeding en diëtetiek is een systematisch naslagwerk met alles wat men moet weten op het gebied van voeding en diëtetiek.

This edited work uses the life and biblical teachings of Jesus to examine modern leadership theory.

Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights.

One of the most important consequences of EU enlargement in May 2004 was to extend the principle of the free movement of labour to the citizens of the central and eastern European new member states.

This third edition of Genetic Counseling has been thoroughly revised to reflect current practice.

How to make a living speaking, training, and running workshops and seminars Expert Bob Bly shares his secrets for earning $1,000 to $5,000 a day, or more, as a self-employed speaker, lecturer, or trainer.

International migration and workers' remittances have, of late, become a significant economic and social phenomena affecting the fortunes of millions of families in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Other people and their behaviour are a subject of endless fascination for us.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new frameworks when approaching them critically.

Urban planning is a community process, the purpose of which is to develop and implement a plan for achieving community goals and objectives.

Young women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood received a CHOICE "e;Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2010"e; award from the American Library Association.

The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists.

Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity.

Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality.

This provocative book seeks to redress inaccuracies in Western perceptions of gender relations in Southeast Asia by bringing to the fore the area's ethnic and cultural variance and showing how women and men explain the informal and psychological dimensions of relationships as vital in holding family, neighbourhood and kinship ties together.

In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state.

This volume analyzes the rising inclusion of new and emerging technologies in business.

Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women's ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious.

'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening and thrilling.

The response of states to demands for free exercise of religion or belief varies greatly across the world.

Socialism as a political system may be on the wane, yet no one can doubt that its cultural legacies will make themselves felt for years to come, and on a worldwide scale.

This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses.

A fascinating new study challenging the classical view of Karl Barth's rejection of the Roman Catholic understanding of analogia entis.

This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China.

Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity.

Bringing together a wealth of scholarship which provides a unique integrated approach to identity, The Archaeology of Identity presents an overview of the five key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: * gender* age* ethnicity* religion * status.

First published in 1990.

This book focuses on the literature produced at the time of the controversy over Wilkes and the Middlesex elections and by the debate in England over the French Revolution.

There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives.

This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation.

Everything that parents need to survive and thrive in the 21st Century.

This book examines controversies in American wine culture and how those controversies intersect with and illuminate current academic and cultural debates about the environment and about interpretation.

This book brings together researchers from across the globe to share their work on the micro-analyses of storytelling.

This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music.

An introduction to the issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world, the revised sixth edition Since its initial publication, The Globalization Reader has been lauded for its comprehensive coverage of the issues surrounding globalization.