Sociology and anthropology

Across the social welfare and human services fields, interest is growing in how to apply research to influence policy and practice; simultaneously, with globalization's advance, it is clearer than ever that an international perspective is vital in understanding how social, political, and institutional contexts affect research and dissemination practices.

Keeping and retaining your best, high-performing employees is tough.

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins.

This book explores and analyses the evolution of social insurance in Cyprus from 1878, beginning with the arrival of the British after 300 years of Ottoman occupation.

Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

First published in 1990.

The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world.

If you are interested in becoming a better leader, this book is a great place to start.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

From the precocious charms of Shirley Temple to the box-office behemoth Frozen and its two young female leads, Anna and Elsa, the girl has long been a figure of fascination for cinema.

Values-driven organizations are the most successful organizations on the planet.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims' Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services.

This book includes fieldwork from five continents and demonstrates the breadth of techniques used by environmental criminologists to understand crime.

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Drawing upon unique and unprecedented survey data, this book shows how and why Brexit has changed British politics.

This is your student guide to research in the field of coaching.

This volume aims at assessing the current approaches and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives related to the security and privacy protection of social networks.

Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release of a pathogen to the actual human infection Provides techniques on how to gather information, on how each microorganism moves through the environment, how to determine their survival rates on various media, and how people are exposed to the microorganism Explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure the impact of interventions and identify the best policies and practices to protect public health and safety Includes new information on genetic methods Techniques use to develop risk models for drinking water, groundwater, recreational water, food and pathogens in the indoor environment

This guidebook is designed to increase readers' social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress.

A set of advice to succeed on the job and overcome challenges at work.

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies.

First published in 1998, this volume enters the debate on human behaviour in the form of neural networks in a spatial context.

Germany has long entertained the notion that the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery involved only other European players.

This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.

Statistical Concepts-A Second Course presents the last 10 chapters from An Introduction to Statistical Concepts, Fourth Edition.

Hong Xiao examines the linkage between social structure and child-rearing values in the United States and China.

This book examines the challenge of accelerating automation, and argues that countering and adapting to this challenge requires new methodological, philosophical, scientific, sociological, economic, ethical, and political perspectives that fundamentally rethink the categories of work and education.

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy.

This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies.

In the eloquent style for which he has become famous, Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else.

Since its first publication in 1971, Barry Cunliffe's monumental survey has established itself as a classic of British archaeology.

The future of journalism isn't what it used to be.

This lost classic by famous anthropological theorist Leslie A.

Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

This volume, first published in 1976, is addressed to the analysis of power and conflict in and of organizations.

This book reviews the assessment of industrial biotechnology products and processes from a sustainable perspective.

There is only one region--the surface of the earth--on which mankind finds its home.

This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion.

Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men, yet very little gender-based research has been carried out on the social context of their use.

A new, hands-on approach to social inquiry for social scientists who wish to make a difference to policy and practice.

The concept of boundaries has become a central theme in the study of journalism.

After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight.

China's workers have been transformed by the transition to capitalism.