Society and Social Sciences

This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions.

British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley.

This book traces the birth and evolution of the creche in France, England, Germany, Russia and Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, in an attempt to understand from a transnational viewpoint the history of an institution for very young children that was very different from what we know today.

Living with serious illness can have profound emotional effects both on patients themselves and on those close to them.

What is the point of cultural theory?

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering (ICEEEE2023) that was held on August 6-8 2023 in Singapore.

Following on from Ethics Education in the Military (eds.

This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein.

This new book introduces a new generation to the important insights of Paul Meehl.

This book examines the US infantry against the Chinese Army amid the unforgiving terrain of Korea during the first real clash of the Cold War.

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City is the first multifaceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation and how translation studies can be enriched by an understanding of the complex dynamics of the city.

Two trends in the early twenty-first-century intersect to give this volume immediate relevance: 1) The emerging postmodern ethos in North America is calling into question many things we have taken for granted, including the purposes of the church; and 2) our time is increasingly fractious as groups with distinct worldviews become polarized and often antagonistic.

Through Pierre Bourdieu''s work in Kabylia (Algeria), he develops a theory on symbolic power.

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians.

Die Corona-Krise ist ohne Zweifel von historischer Bedeutung.

In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression.

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At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty.

Edited and with contributions by Liisa North and Alan Simmons, this collection explores the participation of the oppressed and marginalised Guatemalan refugees, most of them indigenous Mayas who fled from the army's razed-earth campaign of the early 1980s, in government negotiations regarding the conditions for return.

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them?

Islam came on the scene, with a message, philosophy and code of conduct, perfect by all means, with its advent, the new faith revolutionised the contemporary world in a very short span of time.

A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina.

Wie kann heute eine zeitgemäße und erfahrungsorientierte Lehrer innenbildung in der Migrationsgesellschaft aussehen?

This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle East, considering the value of environmental approaches.

Elements of Effective Governance: Measurement, Accountability and Participation is one of the first books to explore the relationship between accountability, government performance, and public participation.

When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Fuumlhrer, Adolf Hitler.

Hilfe für belastete Frauen in Schwangerschaft und Postpartalzeit- Angesprochen sind: Alle, die eine Gruppe für Schwangere und Mütter anbieten wollen - von der ÄrztIn und PsychotherapeutIn bis zur Hebamme und BeraterIn- In die Zukunft gedacht: Psychoedukation von Müttern ebnet den Weg für eine sichere Bindung und eine bessere psychische Gesundheit für Mutter und Kind sowie die gesamte Familie- Niederschwellig: Einmal die Woche à 90 Minuten am besten in der Gruppe, um fehlende soziale Kontakte auszugleichen- Hilfe durch: Stabilisierung, Wissensvermittlung und EntlastungBevorzugt im Gruppensetting, aber auch in Einzelsitzungen, lernen Frauen Bewältigungsstrategien sowie mögliche Hilfen im Alltag kennen.

This book intends to provide a comprehensive introduction to the status of development of Chinese mathematics education in the 21st century.

A comprehensive survey of the quickly developing discipline of cognitive linguistics, its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context.

Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling examines the role of wellbeing in schools and argues that it should be integral to core policy objectives in health and education.

One of the hallmarks of the Soviet system was its heavy reliance on internal and foreign security and intelligence organizations.

We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low.

From tracking down information to symbolising human experiences, this book is your guide to telling more effective, empathetic and evidence-based data stories.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

Bei Klassenfahrten, organisierten Kinder-Ferienreisen, Konfirmanden-Wochenenden, Pfadfinder-Camps kann es passieren: Unfälle, Ausbruch von Krankheiten, Naturkatastrophen, sexualisierte Gewalt.

This book is the result of a program undertaken nine years ago by the Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, Inc.

Learn to facilitate modern book clubs devoted to elevating the reading experience through active engagement, resulting in long-term commitment to book club events.

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other.

Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomen--members of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the late 1960s--were determined to stamp out sexism and social injustice.

In Cracking the Freemason's Code, Robert Cooper explains exactly who the Freemasons are and what they do.

The expanding interdependencies of the world's diverse and divided populations have created a world society.

This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens'' lives.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.