Sociology and anthropology

This book explores the complex relationships between sport and video games, two of the largest entertainment sectors globally.

First published in 1998.

Crossing continents and centuries Stephen Arnott brings us invaluable information about all kinds of bizarre regional customs - from sexual practices to the received wisdom on cannibalism - that could save you from embarrassing local faux pas while travelling.

What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses?

Is theology a dead corpse or living organism?

Gerald N.

Agent-Based Computational Demography (ABCD) aims at starting a new stream of research among social scientists whose interests lie in understanding demographic behaviour.

In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation.

Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia provides insights into the manner in which biomedical discourses are communicated and portrayed in Asia in light of the rapidly evolving socio-cultural, technological and epidemiological undercurrents.

What is it about crime that makes it `men's work'?

Composicion social dominicana (Social Composition of the Dominican Republic), first published in 1970 in Spanish, and translated into English here for the first time, discusses the changing structure of social classes and groups in Dominican society from the first encounter between Europeans and Natives until the mid-twentieth century.

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is a two-part volume exploring how paradox theory benefits from interdisciplinary theorizing and how we might go about undertaking such research.

What is Global Studies, and how does it relate to globalization?

Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics.

Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus und Gewalt sind nicht nur ein Problem der Jugend, auch wenn das Phänomen vor allem bei jungen Männern besonders spektakulär in Erscheinung tritt und sich die Aufmerksamkeit seit geraumer Zeit sehr stark darauf konzentriert.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

Women in the thraldom of man has led sometimes, in one form or another, to the most horrible abuses.

Patrick Barr-Melej here illuminates modern Chilean history with an unprecedented chronicle and reassessment of the sixties and seventies.

Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women.

This book explores why democratization processes in Sub-Saharan Africa have made so little progress despite more than two decades of multi-party politics on the subcontinent.

This book explores LGBQTNB people''s relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

This is Volume III of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology.

The essays in this edited volume seek to understand the regional and international ramifications of the wave of protest demonstrations that swept across West Asia and North Africa in the early 2010s, both on the ground and online.

This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition.

Don Miguel Ruiz ist ein renommierter spiritueller Lehrer und ein internationaler Bestsellerautor.

In The Geometry of Genocide, Bradley Campbell argues that genocide is best understood not as deviant behavior but as social control-a response to perceived deviant behavior on the part of victims.

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices.

This book highlights various dimensions of human habitats in 21st Century India.

How to foster happier employees for a healthier bottom line Managers could learn a lot from a message echoed by generations of dairy farmers: "e;Contented cows give better milk.

Finding Time for the Old Stone Age explores a century of colourful debate over the age of our earliest ancestors.

In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on "e;doing nothing,"e; Billy Ehn and Orvar Lofgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening.

Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance.

Modern statistical software provides the ability to compute statistics in a timely, orderly fashion.

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology.

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

Social Work: Voices from the Inside offers unique insight into social work from the perspectives of those 'on the inside', that is, service users, carers and practitioners.

Welche Technologien sind die Wegbereiter für digitale Innovationen und welche neuen Nutzungsformen gehen mit diesen einher?

Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline'specifically the concept of "e;capital"e; has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an ever-growing list.

Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class.

As a punishment for our most serious crimethe intentional killing of a victim in an egregious waythe death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works.

Greece's economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerity policies that have been implemented.

La experiencia del exilio estuvo caracterizada por la intersección de aspectos contradictorios: de la victimización pasiva a configuraciones activas; del destierro involuntario a la diáspora como encuentro en nuevos contextos geográficos, políticos, sociales y culturales; de la amenaza a la integridad de la identidad personal a la multitud de maneras en la que los exiliados participaron en su reconstrucción creativa.

This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as 'trouble' through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people's sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges.