How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is ...

Access to adequate food and nutrition is a fundamental human right. However, a significant population worldwide presently suffers from malnutrition...

Synthetic drugs, as opposed to natural drugs, are chemically produced in a laboratory. Their chemical structure can be either identical to or diffe...

This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent ...

Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is...

Family abduction is the most prevalent form of child abduction in the United States. Regardless of the abductor's motive, it is an illegal act that...

Congress is again debating work requirements in the context of programs to aid poor and low-income individuals and families. The last major debate ...

The digitalization of society is spreading around the world and technology has become part of many people's daily lives. It acts as a means of comm...

Abuse in dating relationships is common among adolescents. Dating abuse has a plethora of negative associated conditions or consequences. Despite t...

If one culprit is suspected above all others for encouraging society to become more violent and unfeeling, it is television. This medium, which has...

‘Throughout my years of practice, people have often asked me why I decided to specialise in sexual health. The question is not surprising given tha...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides federal grants to states for a wide range of benefits, services, and activi...

In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide ...

In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide ...

This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different cou...

The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated o...

A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this anthology offers pre-twentieth century theories about the concept of race, classic...

A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this anthology offers pre-twentieth century theories about the concept of race, classic...

Li-Chun Hsiao attempts to rethink, under the rubric of globalization, several key notions in postcolonial theory and writings by revisiting what he...

A poignant history of the women and succeeding generations who established the Lort Smith Animal Hospital. Felicity Jack writes of the achievements...