The second edition of this comprehensive introduction to politics remains an essential framework for assessing the health and workings of present-day democracy.
Artistic Research Methodology argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works inside-in, beginning and ending with acts committed within an artistic practice.
Award-winning Associated Press sports writer Hal Bock brings us a fascinating history of the players, coaches and more barred from baseball's ranks, from Shoeless Joe Jackson to Jenrry Mejia.
In this sweeping chronicle of guarana glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.
In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia.
By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward.
The second edition of this comprehensive introduction to politics remains an essential framework for assessing the health and workings of present-day democracy.
This book responds to a critical geopolitical moment where decolonial thought, praxis, and pedagogy confront urgent questions of resistance in the face of Palestinian genocide and scholasticide, alongside other forms of state-sanctioned colonial violence against Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and displaced peoples worldwide.
In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States.
The Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors shaping the past, present, and future of African borderlands, in all their complexity.
Outstanding social scientists (economists, sociologists, political scientists, and policy researchers) discuss in this book the issue of the social aspects of European integration.
Towards Sound Athletic Talent Development addresses a fundamental question in its comprehensive analysis of Denmark's unique approach to early athletic talent development: How can we develop world-class athletes without compromising their well-being, education, or identity?
The volume brings together contributions by both leading scholars and young academics with a particular experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not necessarily linked to the dense metropolis, its compact form or to city sprawl.
During the 1950s, when less than 20 percent of American high school graduates attended college, a group of ambitious young African Americans enrolled at Ohio University, a predominantly white school in Athens, Ohio.
This book takes inspiration from AIDS activist history to argue that current individualized approaches to the queer suicide crisis could be expanded to include structural work.
Although having Asperger Syndrome (AS) can make romantic relations difficult, having a fulfilling relationship with an Asperger man is certainly not impossible.
Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman J.
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivias president in 2005 made him his nations first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples.
Although having Asperger Syndrome (AS) can make romantic relations difficult, having a fulfilling relationship with an Asperger man is certainly not impossible.
Im Jahr 1875 grundete Arnold Janssen die Gesellschaft des Gottlichen Wortes (SVD), einen Missionsorden, der neben der philosophischen und theologischen Ausbildung auch das Interesse an den positiven Wissenschaften pflegt, insbesondere an der Erforschung auereuropaischer Kulturen.
La delinquance juvenile est l'objet de nombreux fantasmes entretenus par le traitement mediatique des faits divers, par les rhetoriques electoralistes des politiciens et par des experts rarement competents et desinteresses.
Depuis plusieurs décennies, les sciences sociales africaines traversent une crise silencieuse : les cadres conceptuels occidentaux peinent à saisir les dimensions relationnelles, mémorielles et communautaires des sociétés africaines.
A la croisee de la science, de l'experience et de l'engagement, cet ouvrage propose une lecture systemique de l'Ecole au Benin, de la maternelle au superieur.
Zur Stärkung der demokratischen Resilienz und zum Schutz pluraler Demokratie und Erinnerungskultur diskutiert der Sammelband unterschiedliche Perspektiven von Polizei, Zivilgesellschaft und Wissenschaft im Umgang mit Rechtsextremismus.
La situation socioeconomique de la population de la Republique democratique du Congo contraste fortement avec l'abondance et la diversite des ressources naturelles dont regorge son sous-sol.
En 2001, l'ouverture de l'enseignement superieur aux acteurs prives par le gouvernement du Kerala s'est rapidement traduite par une proliferation des etablissements universitaires prives controles, pour l'essentiel, par des groupes de caste ou des communautes religieuses.
