Sociology and anthropology

This book analyses labour inspectors' discretionary practices in handling complex cases of labour exploitation in the Italian context.

This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits.

Environmental sustainability has become increasingly important because of irreversible climate change, widespread environmental pollution, and dwindling resource availability over time.

This book delivers a user guide reference for researchers seeking to build their capabilities in conducting discrete choice experiment (DCE).

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life.

This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia.

This book presents different dietary patterns, some utilizing wild foods and others facing drastically changing dietary patterns, and shows their implications for health in terms of wealth, mutual assistance, food sufficiency and food diversity.

This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale.

This book presents the knowledge of rice chemistry and nutrition.

This book provides a unique ethnographic approach to the understanding of ethnogenesis in the Chinese context, with a particular focus on how it is being reshaped in the post-2000s era.

This book provides a unique ethnographic approach to the understanding of ethnogenesis in the Chinese context, with a particular focus on how it is being reshaped in the post-2000s era.

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view.

Environmental sustainability has become increasingly important because of irreversible climate change, widespread environmental pollution, and dwindling resource availability over time.

This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale.

Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other.

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This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents.

Age into Race is a socio-anthropological essay on the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cultural status of the old.

This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region).

This book delivers a user guide reference for researchers seeking to build their capabilities in conducting discrete choice experiment (DCE).

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

In this book, Dr.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the benefits and advantages of adopting technology-driven learning as a central pillar of the universities' teaching, learning, research, and social-responsibility strategies.

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time.

Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other.

This book presents the frontier research of toxicology and health risk assessment of chemicals.

This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region).

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life.

This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia.

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Gitano community of Mexico City.

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time.

This book explores how our temperamental proclivities interact with our political leanings, shedding light on why people perceive the world differently.

This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents.

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

This book presents different dietary patterns, some utilizing wild foods and others facing drastically changing dietary patterns, and shows their implications for health in terms of wealth, mutual assistance, food sufficiency and food diversity.

This book presents the frontier research of toxicology and health risk assessment of chemicals.

This book presents the knowledge of rice chemistry and nutrition.

This book provides new theoretic and applied material with focus on quantitative methods and data analysis techniques applied in demography, population studies, health issues and statistics.

This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis.

This book explores how our temperamental proclivities interact with our political leanings, shedding light on why people perceive the world differently.

This book provides new theoretic and applied material with focus on quantitative methods and data analysis techniques applied in demography, population studies, health issues and statistics.

This book integrates the research progress of Tryptophan (Trp) and its metabolites in animal nutrition and human health.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water and associated adverse outcomes is one of the major health issues in more than 50 countries worldwide.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

Over the decades, academic literature has too often neglected the complexities and diversity of the African continent and the challenges faced by both multinational companies working across Africa and domestic African companies, particularly in the field of human resources.