Sociology and anthropology

The current practice of the cult of Maria Lionza is one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

Urban and Regional Planning Series, Volume 6: Sub-Regional Planning Studies: An Evaluation reviews the sub-regional planning in the East Midlands Region of England.

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism.

Each year in Canada residential burglary accounts for the loss of more than 40 million dollars in property and cash.

This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games.

Mit dem Start des Aktionsprogramms "Frühe Hilfen für Eltern und Kinder und soziale Frühwarnsysteme" und mit der Einführung des BKiSchG hat sich für die Soziale Arbeit ein lang gefordertes Arbeitsfeld verankert: Frühe Hilfen.

From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "e;Mormon question"e; debated central questions of constitutional law.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture.

This book presents a sociological perspective on (non-)sexual intimate relationships in contemporary Japan.

The analysis of the impediments to political development is one of the most important discussions which has major theoretical and political consequences.

An Applied Psychologist's Initiation to the Study of Gifted Children My interest in the subject matter of this book, the peer relations of gifted children, intensified enormously as result of my' involvement with one gifted child during my days as a school psychologist.

The increased interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems often builds on the underlying assumption that entrepreneurs have equal access to resources, participation, and support.

Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures?

Buddhism, one increasingly hears, is an 'eco-friendly' religion.

This book has been replaced by Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4146-1.

This book challenges orthodox public perspectives on reproduction.

The number of street children in developed and developing nations is rising, often in the midst of prosperity.

Conflict between managers and direct reports affects their work and influences how productive and effective an organization can be.

From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound.

This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama's presidency, with a focus on ethnicity, gender, and culture as they interact with communication.

This is a book about the intersections of three dimensions.

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use.

This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts.

First published in 1920, Social Theory endeavours to put together the social contents of various experiences of the ordinary man, and to make them, as far as they form one, a coherent and consistent whole.

Eine berufliche Neuorientierung mit 45plus wird künftig eher die Regel als die Ausnahme sein und kann verschiedene Gründe haben.

This book analyzes the historical quest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to export its revolution to the Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond.

First Published in 1997.

At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.

With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today.

According to recent statistics by the U.

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise.

Infancy is one of the most fascinating periods in the human life cycle.

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of Israel.

First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European countries: representing a diversity of welfare state regimes.

Focusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

Tackling precarious work has been described by the United Nations (UN)'s International Labour Organization (ILO) as the main challenge facing the world of work.

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives.

In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South.

Documents the recent developments in privatisation through 25 country case-studies.

How do British pavements remain free of dog mess?

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism affect the demographics of archaeology and discusses how knowledge that archaeologists produce is shaped by the discipline's demographic homogeneity.

Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries.