Society and Social Sciences

In this original and cutting-edge new textbook, Mike Rowe explores the key topics in race and crime.

The author argues that the Chinese believe in the strategy of "e;people's war under modern conditions"e;, and are confident that middle-range technology and unconventional warfare and the combination of the "e;human"e; and "e;weapon"e; factors represent a successful application of the strategy.

"e;What part of illegal don't you understand?

As countries in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries change from colonialist to independent rule, or from a socialist to a democratic society, the need for a written constitution becomes apparent.

The study of voting behaviour remains a vibrant sub-discipline of political science.

Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Grading Choices for Classroom Teachers, Second Edition introduces and explains a wide range of specific evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades and gives explicit instructions for implementing them.

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.

Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence.

This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world.

Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis the ideas of Karl Marx have once again become prominent in social and political thought.

This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond.

Christopher Bollas is one of the most expressive and eloquent exponents of the ideas, meanings and experience of psychoanalysis currently writing.

Pakistan is host to the largest concentration of jihadist groups in the world.

How did life evolve on Earth?

Jonathan Williams's poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic.

This book focuses on the theoretical side of temporal network research and gives an overview of the state of the art in the field.

In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London.

This book examines communication between police and residents of a designated crime 'hotspot' community in the Global South.

"e;I commend and celebrate the editors and authors for a remarkable book that engages the reader's imagination, heart, mind, spirit, and body.

A comprehensive introduction to green criminology, this book is a discussion of the relationship between mainstream criminal justice and green crimes.

First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.

This book offers a thorough review of the scientific research that links the consumption of grapes to better health.

Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield.

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place.

This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children.

Suitable for 2nd and 3rd year students taking courses on drug use/misuse principally in departments such as Sociology, Law, Cultural and Media Studies, and Psychology.

This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women's political participation in Bangladesh.

Design and assemble an inexpensive yet fast and reliable PCConstruct the PC of your dreams using the practical information contained in this hands-on guide.

This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences.

Why is France so often relegated to the background in studies of international relations?

Today, more than ever, students and teachers should be better able to address questions of perspective with more original sources at their fingertips.

Drinking is recognized as one of the most important problems confronting students on campus today, with major impacts on health and safety.

For almost 200 years, the city of Birmingham has been a key location for the training of clergy.

Not being racist is not enough.

Child labour is a serious and contentious issue throughout the developing world and it continues to be a problem whose form and very meaning shifts with social, geographical, economic and cultural context.

In recent years, philosophical issues in nursing and health care have become more evident in the academic literature.

WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY PETER TOWNSEND PRIZE 2017 Welcome to Foodbank Britain, where emergency food provision is an increasingly visible and controversial feature of ongoing austerity.

This is an essential introduction to undergraduate studies in criminology.

An original investigation of Woolf''s ambivalent attitude to her Victorian past and the modernist present, first published in 2007.

Remember when Trump was a great boss, a great father, and a great businessman, before the liberal media rewrote that narrative?

Community activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members.

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace.

Where Is Your Focus in Life?

America Indian culture and traditions have survived an unusual amount of oppressive federal and state educational policies intended to assimilate Indian people and destroy their cultures and languages.

Die Zahl der Paare, die auf Grund eines unerfüllten Kinderwunsches eine fortpflanzungsmedizinische Behandlung in Anspruch nehmen, steigt weiter dramatisch an.

This book is devoted to a topic that is fundamental value for psychoanalytic research; namely a quest for the roots of psychopathological impediments and disorders as well as the related question as to what extent these developmental disturbances can be avoided by adequate early parenting.

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics.

This book applies a range of ideas about scientific discovery found in contemporary philosophy of science to psychology and related behavioral sciences.