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...

This book is meant to support problem-oriented learning activities. Problem-orientation concerns the reasoning about lack of knowledge, while proje...

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...

The provision of public services -- such as health care, education, sanitation and criminal justice -- is a key task for government. People care ab...

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 guide is a devoted individual who has submitted his soul to its true owner. Faith is the greatest reality in the universe. It is a light that ...

Race and gender differentials in the labour market remain stubbornly persistent. Although the black/white wage gap appeared to be converging rapidl...

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...

In this book, the author puts forth what one can learn from the study of human remains, how human remains have been obtained, the ethical dilemmas ...

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...

For over 25 years, the Rediscovery program has drawn from the timeless wisdom of native American elders to help teach youth, native American and ot...

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...

The Smithsonian Institution holds a large number of Indian human remains and culturally significant objects as part of its museum collections. Thes...

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

Social research is an academic activity to explain, analyze, and understand a problem and find solution for it. A systematic approach of collecting...

Research refers to scientific and systematic search for pertinent information on a specific topic. Research comprises defining and redefining probl...

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...

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...

Urban culture is the culture of towns and cities. Research on urban cultures naturally focuses on their defining institution, the city, and the lif...

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...