Society and Social Sciences

As the oldest members of the baby boomer generation head into their retirement years, this demographic shift is having a substantial influence on uses of mass media, as well as the images portrayed in these media.

The field of Games is rapidly expanding, prompting institutions throughout the world to create game development programs and courses focusing on educational games.

This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment.

This book examines corruption in public procurement in three Member States of the EU, reviewing their different approaches to combating corruption, and the extent to which the transparency principle is applied in their procurement systems.

This comprehensive text provides a detailed overview of the party system and politics of one of the most powerful states in the international arena.

This volume presents six major issues that have been divisive in and out of the Native American community.

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date.

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence.

Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning.

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region.

In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike.

Handbook of Contemporary China is a convenient reference in one single volume that offers comprehensive overviews of crucial cultural dimensions and key institutions of China.

This book discusses how face-to-face interaction via the Internet affects what we can and will do, and its limitations and potential benefits.

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy.

Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics.

Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys summarizes a workshop organized to draw upon recent advances to improve the measurement of physical and cognitive disability in population surveys of the elderly population.

This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them.

Brazil has undergone transformative change since the 1980s, from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society advancing on all frontspolitical, social, economic, and diplomatic.

In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency.

Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana.

This book explores what social psychology can contribute to our understanding of real-life problems and how it can inform rational interventions in any area of social life.

This book discusses the evolution of Commedia dell'Arte in the Asia-Pacific where through the process of reinvention and recreation it has emerged as a variety of hybrids and praxes, all in some ways faithful to the recreated European genre.

This book brings together an influential sequence of papers that argue for a radical re-conceptualisation of the psychology of inference, and of cognitive science more generally.

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Where presidents or members of affluent families were previously seen, it is increasingly the case that car manufacturers are owned by banks and investment funds which have taken control of the entire economic life of these firms.

The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a household survey conductedperiodically by the Department of Education that evaluates the literacy skills of asample of adults in the United Stages ages 16 and older.

Our faith is centered around giving and offering support, yet our belief about those who need "e;help"e; must be reexamined.

This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era.

This book presents mathematical models of mob control with threshold (conformity) collective decision-making of the agents.

Gender and International Migration in Europe is a unique work which introduces a gender dimension into theories of contemporary migrations.

False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded.

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record.

Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in April 2009, quickly establishing a large and volatile social movement.

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz.

This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon.

Planned Education can only devise and mould the contemporary society in desired setting and train the people to meet the current challenges.

Adherence and Self-Management in Pediatric Populations addresses the contemporary theories, evidence-based assessments, and intervention approaches for common pediatric chronic illnesses.

The second edition of this successful book provides further and in-depth insight into theoretical models dealing with Internet addiction, as well as includes new therapeutical approaches.

The publication of this book coincides with a increasing recognition that the challenges facing society and organisations are not amenable to "e;quick fixes"e;.

This ambitious volume shows how nineteenth-century Spanish American writers used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women at all levels of social and even political life in the modern, utopian nation.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs.

Dieses Buch, das die Ökumenische Arbeitsgruppe Homosexuelle und Kirche (HuK) e.

This book traces how the current wave of industrial digitalization relates to processes of domination and emancipation.

Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardTogether we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own.

This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process.