Society and Social Sciences

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

L’histoire du monde est parsemée de guerres et de conflits qui trouvent leur origine, selon les époques et les lieux, dans l’intolérance et l’incompréhension, la soif du pouvoir, l’ambition ou l’avidité des hommes, qu’ils agissent seuls ou en groupe, en rebelles et terroristes, ou cachés derrière l’apparente vertu d’une légalité usurpée.

For many therapists it has replaced previous action terms such as acting in and acting out.

This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China.

Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as 'thieves-in-law' exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organized criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR.

A deep look into the agency that implements the president's marching orders to the rest of the executive branchThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is one of the federal government's most important and powerful agencies-but it's also one of the least-known among the general public.

Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture.

Spatial Reasoning Puzzles That Make Kids Think!

The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions that affect language development?

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice.

Ancient Indian political thought must be understood in the context of religious beliefs.

Liens entre savoir-faire militaire et pouvoir politique en Indonésie, au Pakistan ou en Turquie ; reconversion des entrepreneurs de violence dans le jeu politique russe ou bulgare ; activités affairistes de responsables du mouvement nationaliste armé en Corse ; interactions entre la mafia calabraise et les entreprises.

Exploring the influence misinformation has on public perceptions of the risk and severity of crisis events To what extent can social media networks reduce risks to the public during times of crisis?

All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end.

SECIII-Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT Welcome to the post-conference book of SECIII, the IFIP Open Conference on Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) which took place from July 22-26, 2002 at the University of Dortmund, Germany, in co-operation with the German computer society (Gesellschaft flir Informatik).

Tamim Ansary's passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict, West of Kabul, East of New York.

How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California.

Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Probleme der Landeskultur und der Lärmbekämpfung" verfügbar.

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism.

This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy and Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas,

Charakteristisch für die Hermeneutische Wissenssoziologie ist der Anspruch, sich dem Verstehen der sozialen Wirklichkeit selbst reflexiv zuzuwenden.

In der Heilpädagogik geht es darum, Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen und Benachteiligungen Hilfen und Unterstützung zu vermitteln, so dass sie in ihrer Entwicklung unterstützt werden und umfassend Zugang finden zu allen gesellschaftlichen Lebensbereichen wie Bildung, Freizeit, Wohnen, Arbeit und Beruf.

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society-for the better.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

First published in 1928.

Forty years after Roe v.

The development of market socialism in China has contributed to a remarkable spatial economic transformation in particular areas of the Chinese countryside.

This book is a longitudinal life history of the lives and work of primary school principals in Ireland.

First published in 1997.

Islamism and Post-Islamism analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979.

Middle East is a lively and much-needed update of a well-respected work.

The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world's biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

In the 1980s the relationship between alcohol and aggression and violence was a controversial one.

Present and Past in Middle Life presents an interdisciplinary focus on the life course from adolescence to middle age.

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Fully updated and with completely reworked text and images, this is the Fourth Edition of the acclaimed The Mammals of Australia.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

America operates by ableist norms, which often silence or hide from view those with a disability.

The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence.

This book is the first to empirically study the role of non-competition interests in Article 101 TFEU enforcement.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.