Section headings: Philosophy -- Wandering Sages; Anthropology; Social Philosophy; Education; History; Philosophy of Social Psychology; Philosophy o...

"Divergent Vistas and Civil Voices for Education, Empowerment, and Critical Thinking" describes Photovoice through the lenses of different communit...

In the last decade, a dramatic increase in overweight individuals and obesity has been reported in both developed and underdeveloped countries. Non...

Since the passage of national welfare reform legislation in the areas of welfare, employment, health and social services have been changing rapidly...

Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytelling, she ar...

Book & Disk. This volume is an array of demographic data which can often be pictured in an intelligible and graphically striking way by a shade...

Pottery: History, Preparation and Uses opens with a discussion of silicates, the most abundant minerals on the Earth's crust. Clays (which are sili...

This book supports the student in acquring the craft of project work from the initial project concept to the last sentence of the report. Since the...

Popular culture texts have always been ideological battlegrounds between multiple voices with imbalanced power relations. This edited volume aims t...

Shocking events, such as disasters, wars, mistreatment or abuse are serious attacks on the personal and social lives of human beings. The search fo...

In studying public leadership we are interested in the use of the voice to motivate, inspire, and organise public action. The focus is the leadersh...

What is the role of sociology in society? How can -- and should -- sociology contribute with insights relevant and useful to the outside world? Is ...

In his new book, Joe S. Sando weaves a tapestry of individual lives against a backdrop of history -- telling the stories of political leaders, educ...

This is a methodolgy textbook designed to introduce students and researchers to the four most commonly used qualitative methods in organisation stu...

This book first builds off the existing multicultural attachment literature to explore the concept of contextual and developmental adaptations of a...

Race and racism are significant factors posing formidable challenges for racialised individuals and groups across North America. For social workers...

There has been an array of literature on the notion of 'postmodernism' in social science literature in recent years. This exciting book focuses on ...

Recording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the personal journals of Cambridge zoologist and an...

This book offers insight and reflections upon the academic career for the recent Ph.D. the book gathers professors from different disciplines, coun...

Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnic...

Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...

Examining the clash between Roman religion and Christianity in Antiquity, and juxtaposing this with some of the cultural and religious conflicts cu...

Although reproduction including infertility, abortion, childbearing and motherhood is a significant human experience, its social meaning is shaped ...

Research with children is an invaluable way to tell their story in their own words. Research documenting ideas about children from parent and teach...

This authentic book explores the concept of aging and its relationship to victimisation and death in contemporary culture. Healthcare and welfare h...

This anthology of essays, previously published in "Olympika: The International Centre for Olympic Studies", addresses key themes in the scholarly s...

What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revol...

This book explores the relationship between risk and social welfare. Traditionally, need has been the major mechanism for allocating resources in p...

Risk management is the discipline of identifying, monitoring and limiting risks. In some cases, the acceptable risk may be near zero. Risks can com...

The word "ritual" evokes images of formalised social action, sometimes austere and minimalist, sometimes as exuberant pageantry. Ritual criticism h...

Rituals promote the ability to attribute meaning to our lives because rituals are profound structures that define the continuity of experience betw...

Scientific studies have shown that because children's bodies are still developing, they can be more vulnerable than adults to certain environmental...

This book provides a wide range of research on the country of Russia, which has established world-wide power and influence from the times of the Ru...

Russia on the Threshold of an Uncertain Future

In this compilation, the authors first analyse three components of safety culture: safety climate, safety values, and culture of prevention. The an...

"Sailor Jerry" Collins of Honolulu, Hawaii, is arguably the greatest tattoo artist of the 21st Century. His best-known contributions are the now cl...

This anthropological and historical study delves into the San Cristobel Ranch in the archaeology-rich Galisteo Basin that has seen centuries of hum...

The best selling novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has drawn hordes to the city, specifically to its best-known cemetery, Bonaventure. ...

Schleswig and Holstein have been contested regions for over a thousand years, but contested between different peoples and groups, and for very diff...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle first suggested the earth could be divided into types of climatic zones, based on their distance from the equator. ...

The first large-scale study of the important, but as yet largely invisible, group of Icelandic women who live on the sea -- their lives, contributi...