Society and Social Sciences

This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians.

This small-group study is based on Steve Harper's book Five Marks of a Methodist.

A critical examination of the principles and practice of qualitative research is provided in this book which examines the interplay between context and method, making it invaluable for both the experienced and the beginning researcher.

Urban sustainability has become a political and social agenda of global significance, of which real estate is an integral dimension.

A dramatic short story from experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis.

This book provides a clear, systematic and up-to-date picture of the vast and dynamic industry of lobbying and Public Affairs in Europe, not only at EU level, but specifically in each of the 28 EU Member States.

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection.

Contributors demonstrate that informal traditional and popular expressive cultural forms continue to be central to Canadians' gender constructions and clearly display the creation and re-creation of women's often subordinate position in society.

Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research.

This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture.

Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process.

This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas.

Since 1938 and 1941, nutrient intake recommendations have been issued to the public in Canada and the United States, respectively.

This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization's ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state.

Andreas Friedel lokalisiert die Ursachen der Funktionsschwächen des mit der Kontrolle der Nachrichtendienste des Bundes (BND, BfV und MAD) beauftragten Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums (PKGr) des Deutschen Bundestages.

A one-stop guide for social work students that offers extensive study support and skills development.

A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy.

This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society.

Investigates implications of domestic debt on consumption and growth, and studies separation of debt and monetary management.

This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91.

Originally published in Spanish in 2022 by Libreria Bosch, Barcelona, An Illustrated Psychometric Forensic Atlas is a one-of-a-kind book made available in English for the first time.

Encounters, whether first or subsequent or whether cultural, economic, or ideological, mark the beginning of an acquaintance and measure both similarities and differences.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2024, held in conjunction with the 27th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco in October 2024.

Wie werden Bildungsinstitutionen organisiert?

The United States education system, especially its universities, is under attack by theideological Left, dominated by advocates of Wokeism and Critical Race Theory.

From Vision to Reality takes the reader past the fixation with political decision-making by focusing on the process of implementation that follows important policy decisions.

Doing Meta-Analysis with R: A Hands-On Guide serves as an accessible introduction on how meta-analyses can be conducted in R.

What a provocative and refreshing stance on evidence-informed education!

Despite immediate appearances, this book is not primarily a hermeneutical exercise in which the superiority of one interpretation of canonical texts is championed against others.

In this now established text the author presents her analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post-structuralist approach.

This book examines the rehabilitation of language disorders in adults, presenting new research, as well as expert insights and perspectives, into this area.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

How politics in America works today, how it got that way, and how it's likely to change through reform-these are the themes that pervade every chapter of Cal Jillson's highly lauded American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change.

Drawing on original research this book provides a challenging and instructive analysis of the nature of the heated and often contradicting arguments of recent years about how to reform the child care system, and the emergence of a central concern with child protection.

State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students.

The Montclair State University case is one of seven that form the basis for the arguments and analyses presented in Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning.

Robi Friedman is an experienced group analyst and clinician specializing in conflict resolution, and in this important collection of his work, he presents his most innovative concepts.

Did you know eighty-five percent of family firms do not survive the third generation?

With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B.

The tenth edition of this acclaimed text continues to provide a lively, comprehensive and up-to-date account of British political institutions, of the way in which they operate, and of the society in which they developed.

Museum Basics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to professional practice in museums, galleries and related heritage organisations.

The Poetic Logic of Administration is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time, theoretically as well as practically.

Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future offers diverse perspectives on the complex interrelationship between social challenges and economic crises in the Modern World System.

A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire grew increasingly fragile in the nineteenth century.

This edited volume discusses digital transformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

First published in 1990, The Myths We Live By explores how memory and tradition are continually reshaped and recycled to make sense of the past from the standpoint of the present.