Society and Social Sciences

The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls.

This book, the first of two volumes, uses a framework of philosophical anthropology, and the concepts of humanistic leadership and humanistic management, to explore the value of work in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Many teachers, schools, parents and community organisations feel that 'standards' education is not serving us well.

Bring greater satisfaction to your relationship in every way--emotionally, spiritually, and physically--whether you're preparing for your honeymoon or are empty nesters looking for a new spark.

In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.

Machiavelli lives.

Forschende werden im Forschungsprozess immer wieder mit Situationen konfrontiert, in denen sie eine moralische Entscheidung darüber treffen müssen, wie sie konkret mit ihrem Forschungsgegenüber aber auch den ethischen Anforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft umgehen sollen.

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities?

The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.

Simons describes the current human-rights situation in Saudi Arabia with reference to corruption, the treatment of dissidents, the penal system, the suppression of women, slavery and other aspects.

A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play and Culture Studies series.

This three-volume encyclopedia describes and explains the variety and commonalities in Latina/o culture, providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Latina/o cultural forms-popular culture, folk culture, rites of passages, and many other forms of shared expression.

When life becomes complicated, it's time to get back to the basics.

The legends of the Hawaiian Islands are as diverse as those of any other country of the world.

Differential psychology, or the psychology of individual differences as it is better known, is perhaps the single most important basic psychological science that underlies professional practice in psychology.

Die Anforderungen an einen kompetenten Umgang mit Veränderungen im Kontext von gesellschaftlicher Vielfalt scheinen in den letzten Jahren enorm gestiegen.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

Das SMAD-Handbuch wurde im Auftrag der Gemeinsamen Kommission zur Erforschung der neuesten Geschichte der deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin und vom Institut für allgemeine Geschichte der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Zusammenarbeit mit der Föderalen Archivagentur Russlands, dem Staatsarchiv der Russischen Föderation und dem Bundesarchiv erstellt.

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan.

The Different Faces of Motherhood began during a conversation between the two editors, developmental psychologists who have spent our professional careers working with infants and very young children.

This exciting volume brings to life the food culture of Mexico, detailing the development of the cuisine and providing practical information about ingredients and cooking techniques so that readers can replicate some of Mexico's most important traditional dishes.

Why do some people risk their lives regularly by placing themselves in extreme and challenging situations?

Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure and Business Funding is ideal for scholars and practitioners who work in the field of public policy design and implementation, finance and banking, and economic development.

This edited collection provides an understanding of the range of learning that is enabled by trade unions, and the agendas around that learning.

The author relates the stories of two patients reshaping their lives into something they could believe in, and examines the complex roles of the therapist and therapy, self/other and mind/body relations, and the dramatic interplay of faith and catastrophe.

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts.

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, the "e;value"e; or "e;values"e; of literature,textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-criticalmethodologies.

In Minefield six Falklands/Malvinas war veterans who once faced each other across a battlefield now face each other across a stage.

This book demonstrates that mobility in Europe is not a synonym for European mobility, showing how certain mobile individuals are more likely to develop an explicitly European identity than others.

Newman himself called the Oxford University Sermons, first published in 1843, `the best, not the most perfect, book I have done'.

Much has been made about South Africa's transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid.

The role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations is increasingly attracting attention.

How can psychotherapists apply the wealth of recent research in Positive Psychology to their clinical work to help their clients change in positive directions?

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.

This book explores new trends and developments in mathematics education research related to proof and proving, the implications of these trends and developments for theory and practice, and directions for future research.

It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves as members of a transnational political movement.

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space?

Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western appropriation of the Orient.

School security is one of the most pressing public concerns today.

Patricia Marchak examines issues particular to the northern and southern regions and the global effects of trends in each region, using British Columbia, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, and Thailand as full case studies and Malaysia, Myanmar, and other south-east Asian regions as shorter case studies.

This book comprehensively addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift's political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works.