Sociology and anthropology

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it.

History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them.

On Social Closure reinvigorates the idea of social closure as a basic sociological concept for understanding the strategies powerful groups use to improve their life chances at the expense of the less powerful.

History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them.

In November 2016, the flight Lamia Flight 2933 crashed, claiming nearly all members of the Brazilian Chapecoense soccer team.

Drawing on multilingual and cross-regional historical and archaeological materials, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct the historical landscape of the West Uighur Kingdom along the eastern Silk Road from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries.

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it.

Religious violence remains an urgent problem for countries around the world.

The pews overflow on Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday.

On Social Closure reinvigorates the idea of social closure as a basic sociological concept for understanding the strategies powerful groups use to improve their life chances at the expense of the less powerful.

This book explores Frantz Fanon's political ideas on colonial violence and the counter-violence it provokes.

Human beings are time travelers.

Wokeism and, before it, Political Correctness are attempts to replace traditional privilege with a new privileged class of special interest groups that have supposedly been discriminated against.

This book adopts a language- and culture -as-resource approach and broadens our understanding of diversity which may be observed, heard, and felt in today's mathematics and statistics classrooms.

This book adopts a language- and culture -as-resource approach and broadens our understanding of diversity which may be observed, heard, and felt in today's mathematics and statistics classrooms.

The Renaissance in Florence was not only a time of extraordinary artistic and philosophical creativity; it also marked a pivotal moment in the invention of new organizational forms that reshaped the city's economic, political, and social life.

The Political Economy of Youth and Migration examines lived experiences to critique how the youth-NGO sector (youth complex) manages the fault lines of global capitalism and limits young peoples' activities.

This book provides an accessible introduction to critical disability studies, which helps students question existing notions of disability and interrogate how these have become embedded in our social and cultural understanding of disability.

This book presents groundbreaking research on children's perceptions and experiences of their surroundings, examining how these perceptions shape their travel decisions and overall well-being.

This book presents groundbreaking research on children's perceptions and experiences of their surroundings, examining how these perceptions shape their travel decisions and overall well-being.

This book is the fourth book in the Contemporary  Gulf state  series, and seeks to define the era of contemporary history in the Arab Gulf region.

This book is the fourth book in the Contemporary  Gulf state  series, and seeks to define the era of contemporary history in the Arab Gulf region.

This book brings together the scholarship on the topic of Friendship during the Medieval period.

This book brings together the scholarship on the topic of Friendship during the Medieval period.

This book introduces Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as a vital design tool for architects, urban designers, and planners.

This book introduces Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as a vital design tool for architects, urban designers, and planners.

This book investigates emerging work attitudes among employees in China’s service sector, with a particular focus on the phenomena of “Tang Ping” (lying flat) and “Nei Juan” (involution).

577 pages, 1613 images, 22 contributors
Child Maltreatment: A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse include forensic photodocumentation from physical examinations of abused children, crime scene documentation and recreations taken by law enforcement officials, and autopsy photos demonstrating fatal physical trauma.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the intersection of disability, disaster risk, and resilience within the sociocultural and ecological contexts of Oceania.

This book offers a forward-looking exploration of how converging technologies are reshaping inclusive education across diverse learning contexts.

This book focuses on themes such as inclusion in action, schooling during challenging times, engaging teaching spaces, social justice standpoints, student/teacher agency, preservice teacher voices, criticality in educative spaces and children and agency.

This book focuses on themes such as inclusion in action, schooling during challenging times, engaging teaching spaces, social justice standpoints, student/teacher agency, preservice teacher voices, criticality in educative spaces and children and agency.

This book argues that the future of resilient and liveable cities depends on making ecological systems not a supplement to design, but the scaffolding upon which urban life is built.

Almost fifty years have passed since the adoption of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the UNESCO World Heritage Convention).

'Solidarity' has received considerable scholarly attention and is central in many social justice movements.

Comparing design policies in Finland and China, this book explores how their distinct cultural and technological contexts shape innovation, sustainable development, and social well-being.

Lucjan Turkowski's first hand account of peasant life in 1940s British Mandate Palestine explores farming, food, language and craft production.

Homa Hoodfar's richly detailed ethnography provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of Arab Muslim families.

Most people who struggle to change their lives arrive at the same quiet conclusion: something must be wrong with me.

This book investigates emerging work attitudes among employees in China’s service sector, with a particular focus on the phenomena of “Tang Ping” (lying flat) and “Nei Juan” (involution).

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Social living is broader than any one area of the curriculum and social learning is possible in many of the childs The main emphasis in teaching of social studies is on the development of higher levels of citizenship.

Lucjan Turkowski's first hand account of peasant life in 1940s British Mandate Palestine explores farming, food, language and craft production.

This book delves into the evolving dynamics of out-migration from Northeast India: a region historically associated with in-migration.

This book offers a timely and interdisciplinary exploration of disability inclusion through the lens of Islamic education.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the Lahu people's religious and cultural transformations from the late 18th century to the present day.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the Lahu people's religious and cultural transformations from the late 18th century to the present day.

This book examines the nexus between livelihood capital and resilience across Africa, offering a regional perspective on how people cope with climate change, conflict, and economic uncertainty.

On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D.

This book presents nature as the fundamental infrastructure for sustainable urban living rather than as an aesthetic afterthought in the face of cities' mounting problems, which range from biodiversity loss and climate change to public health disparities.