Sociology and anthropology

The monograph examines the sources of Polish social divisions.

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law.

In the past decade, post-structural policy analysis in education has evolved, primarily focusing on disrupting dominant narratives about education policy research, development and implementation, and the aims and outcomes of the policy-research nexus.

The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age.

A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge.

This book examines twentieth and twenty-first-century American political discourse through the framework of progressive liberalism and neoliberalism.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

In the last four decades, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees.

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice.

Research on sexual violence has been a growing area of academic study since the 1970s.

This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.

Presenting an innovative approach to the field of organizational management, this book proposes a Yin Yang (cosmological) perspective as an alternative to existing management concepts, serving to conceptualize the organization processes in a more holistic way.

Ethics of Media reopens the question of media ethics.

This book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution.

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities-the 'digital polis'-and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies.

Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance.

Alcohol has been central to social, religious and personal use throughout the history.

The psychological contract describes the employer-employee relationship as an individualised exchange between organisations and their members.

Transcaucasian boundaries"e; provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union.

This is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893).

Religion and social action is both empowering and limiting for women.

This book is an in-depth analysis of the educational development of tribals in India.

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance.

"e;In only 138 pages Schirato manages a broad sweep across sports history and culture.

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands.

Effiziente, konstruktive und zielgerichtete kooperative Zusammenarbeit spielt in einer Zeit immer schnellerer Entwicklungszyklen die entscheidende Rolle im Kampf um Marktvorteile.

Many assumed characteristics of generational groupings are actually "e;myths,"e; meaning that generational stereotypes are not accurate across all members of a generation.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?

This book examines how student debt informs the political action and participation of university students.

This book presents a unique overview of significant disparities in health, which exist within complex and multifaceted contexts across different regions.

A comprehensive introduction to computational analysis of sentiments, opinions, emotions, and moods.

This concise and accessible book is a practical guide to qualitative classroom research, including extended case-studies of real research projects which serve as concrete examples of the advice provided.

The book explores how humans are distinct social beings whose relations nevertheless extend into nonhuman spheres in various ways.

This book reports on the latest, cutting-edge scholarship on integrating social network and spatial analyses in the built environment.

We are witnessing a revolution in storytelling.

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions.

Gender diversity and cross-cultural, cross-generational working in organisations has led to new challenges for leadership, which many companies are solving through executive coaching.

In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry.

Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

George Bell remains one of only a handful of twentieth-century English bishops to possess a continuing international reputation for his involvement in political affairs.

In this masterful work of family-focused sociology, Lois Benjamin considers the lives of Pennie and Roscoe James and their children, revealing how a large, close-knit African American family with humble origins in a small town of North Carolina is shaped by the contours of its religious and ethical value system.

There is a growing interest in the knowledge economy, and the new types of job and ways of working associated with it.