Covering the initial phase of Ukrainian immigration, settlement and community-building in Canada, this history goes beyond existing accounts in thr...

Adolescence is an important period in life in which a series of structural, physiological, hormonal and social changes take place. Some characteris...

This book explores the concept of power and emotion. The book begins by examining the conceptual problems and issues associated with theorizing pow...

In this compilation, the authors include a brief discussion of the myths, taboos, tendencies and new human relations that are related to the sexual...

Understanding Social Change - Political Psychology in Poland

The book opens with an examination of suicidality as a complex issue. Suicides may be prevented by addressing the mode of reporting in the media, b...

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In telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity, and ambition in tim...

Unwanted Pregnancies & Public Policy An International Perspective

What are the social service needs of low-income urban American Indians and to what extent to do they access Administration for Children and Familie...

This book utilises the first-difference panel regression analysis to assess the direct effect of urban slum prevalence or the proportion of the tot...

Where will people live and work in 21st Century America? Everyone has to live somewhere, but very few people will live in the old urban centres of ...

This book addresses the question: How can democracy and governance be made more accountable to diverse groups of people within nested regions? How ...

In the present volume Cathal O'Connel looks at the retreat of the public in the area of housing. The changing ownership structures actually affect ...

In Health Sciences it is necessary to have measuring instruments that allow analyzing various phenomena for better understanding, including those r...

The theory of value is probably the most disputed feature of Marx’ political economy, while mostly another problem – namely the issue of transforma...

Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vas...

Victims of Violence: Support, Challenges and Outcomes critically exposes some of the factors used in the risk determination of intimate partner vio...

Anthropologist Perle Møhl lived in a rural French community for nearly two years, studying the everyday mechanisms of coexistence and the continual...

This book examines issues around violence against women in relation to contemporary experiences, theories and interventions. It provides insight fr...

This book attempts to shed light on the social phenomenon of school bullying that emerges at preschool ages. It is a book that promotes opposition ...

Inaugurating the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, leaders from 20 cultures of North, Central, and South America, the Pacific...

Volunteering is one of the phenomena which, despite the limited amount of volunteers, is seen as highly important for the appropriate functioning o...

This book is based on a study entitled Puberty Rites for Girls (Vukhomba) in the Northern Province of South Africa: Implications for Women’s Health...

In 1929 Albert Londres, a non-Jew and renowned journalist, set out to document the lives of Jews at this time. His travels to England, Eastern Euro...

With the second volume of West Iranian Dialect Materials thirteen short-stories in Luri (Baxtiari) dialect from the collection of D. L. Lorimer are...

This anthology explores different approaches to and readings of Techno-Anthropology, which is a new inter-disciplinary research and study area at A...

This book would not have been possible without the existence of that brilliant, vivid, bright, superb, wonderful, luminous, radiant, and very beaut...

Why is labour migration an issue of such public, social and political concern? How did it acquire such an importance? This book deals with exploita...

One little question propels both author and reader on a genre-bending quest to find the elusive essence of a Canadian province built on sturdy ster...

This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and ninja craze that swept a region of ...

The world of work is constantly evolving, as is the interplay between work and other life domains. As such, it is critical that practitioners and s...

A reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1967. The most comprehensive one-volume collection in English of Marx's early writings (1835-1847) on the nat...

Young People, Leisure and Place reports on cross-cultural research into the personal geographies of young people. It explores young people's leisur...

Youth development represents a complex set of individual transitions embedded in a particular socio-political environment, cultural context, and hi...

What issues, challenges and problems do young people face in 21st century society? How do they make sense of their lifeworlds? Are they proactive o...

Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensuring that today's young people, those age 16 through 24, attain the education and employment experi...

Nearly half of states have laws that explicitly permit the state child welfare system to continue providing foster care for children beyond the age...

Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer during the first half of the 20th century. Frank took a job on the Panama Canal as a census taker and...