Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a worldwide problem with many physical and psychological complications. In the U.S., about one-third of American...

Are women past caring? Care is essential to social relationships and individual well-being. It is woven into New Zealand’s key social institutions,...

The late Father Bascio makes a great effort in understanding the plight of the Church and makes no bones in exposing the danger to the Church broug...

Pleasure in the form of food, drink or drugs, is the subject of this book, which looks at how their consumption has played a key role in social int...

Violence fascinates us. One cannot pick up a newspaper without finding countless articles about brutality; as the saying goes, "If it bleeds, it le...

Physical disabilities are impairments which limit an individual's physical function. This book reviews risk factors and the affect physical disabil...

Policy Choices in a Globalized World

A refugee is a person who, "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular...

This book examines the conventional approaches to numerous problems that affect people who are blind (such as education, Braille literacy, economic...

Politics of Immigration - Current Issues & Future Directions

A biography of one of New Zealand’s earliest feminists, Mary Ann Colclough, whose publicly voiced opinions saw her described in the nineteenth cent...

I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood. A memoir and an examination...

Students with disabilities face several longstanding challenges accessing services that may assist them as they transition from high school into po...

In social sciences the notion of civil society has gained much attention. The growing and diversifying of a civil sector is evident in Western stat...

Poverty in modern societies has been of utmost importance and always is considered as a global issue. Most economic policies of governments have di...

Poverty estimates—the number and percentage of persons living in poverty—have been of interest to Congress not only to gauge the nation’s economic ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, but poverty remains a difficult policy challenge. The Obama Administration and some in ...

Poverty reduction and inequality are undeniably the buzz issues of the millennium. And where else would one go to understand the dynamics and parad...

Poverty is a social fact of life for billions of people around the world. The developed countries abhor poverty, or seem to, for several reasons. P...

Over the past few decades poverty has emerged as a global problem and a global agenda item in need of action. For that reason, the United Nations m...

In 2011, the U.S. poverty rate was 15.0% -- 46.2 million persons were estimated as having income below the official poverty line. Neither the pover...

This book deals with poverty monitoring and alleviation in East Asia. This is currently an area of great interest to scholars, activists, policy-ma...

This book addresses the state of poverty and its effects on education and development. It is organised into two sections: Poverty, socio-economics,...