Domestic violence is control by one partner over another in a dating, marital or live-in relationship. The means of control include physical, sexua...

This is a volume of essays on post-civil war Central American narrative, bringing together leading experts in Central American literary and cultura...

Violent attacks on women occur in almost every area of daily life. Victims often face trauma physically, emotionally and sexually. The processing o...

Perceptions of vulnerability to violence and crime may be affected by differential exposure to risk and by individual, social and contextual factor...

Three decades ago this year (2017), Woodrow W. Clark completed his PhD thesis at the University of California, Berkeley on Violence in Public Schoo...

In recent years, humanity has seen a trend towards the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for rehabilitation and disability support. This is ...

The use of virtual reality for learning, training, and rehabilitation for people with special needs has been on the rise in recent years. Virtual r...

Over the past twenty years, groups of therapists, researchers and engineers have seized the potential of virtual reality (VR) and its associated te...

Do we want to live in a world without birdsong? The pesticides, the coal mines, the clear-felling forestry industry, the industrial farmers are des...

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...

In an increasingly global economy, and with retirement starting for the Baby Boomer generation, Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensurin...

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia-the temporary departure of inh...

Many students have come to the study of war and peace from a background heavily influenced by media exposure and political commitment. Some tend to...

The poverty rate increased markedly over the past decade, in part a response to two economic recessions. A strong economy during most of the 1990s ...

This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian government’s asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...

This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian government’s asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...

By the late 19th century and the early 20th century, there were at least nineteen large and small areas, streets or neighbourhoods that were declar...

Early one spring morning, disaster struck San Francisco, and a young man grabbed his camera and started documenting the destruction and death surro...

This is a highly-charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional Canadian landscapes. Sarah de Lee...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental nutrition-rich foods and nutrition educatio...