Society & Social Sciences Books

The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offers a comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian security and foreign policy by international scholars from across the world. The volume identifies key contemporary topics of research and...

This volume offers a comprehensive insight on sustainable development of local territories. It recommends the planning of local interventions through the integration of sustainable development with resilience of local systems.

Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and...

An essential reference work for any student studying psychology for the first time, A Student's Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience, Seventh Edition provides over 2,500 definitions of complex concepts in clear and accessible language alongside...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level.

The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century.

This book explores the impact of, and lessons learned from, media development and training programs sponsored by the US government and non-governmental organizations in countries transitioning to democracy. This book will be of interest to media...

This book is grounded in contemporary challenges, emphasizes protecting the therapeutic and supervisory relationship through offering an essential framework for thoughtful record keeping within legal, ethical, supervisory and clinical contexts.

Nonlinear Contingency Analysis is a guide to treating clinically complex behavior problems such as delusions and hallucinations.

The contemporary world currently faces multi-level challenges, including cross border migration, economic crises and myriad health issues, including the recent Covid-19 pandemic.

While acknowledging the challenges associated with the promotion of human rights in an environment of uncertainty, political fragility, lawlessness and deprivation, Lahai sheds light on the engagement of the people of Sierra Leone with a variety of...

This edited collection compares and analyses the most prominent political communicative responses to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus within 27 nations across five continents and two supranational organisations: the EU...

In Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy, Elena Block explores the links between declining democratic discourses, populist communication, and reflects on the communicative and moral dimensions of populism.Block proposes the concept...

This volume critically examines 'subculture' in a variety of Australian contexts, exploring the ways in which the terrain of youth cultures and subcultures has changed over the last two decades and considering whether 'subculture' still works as a viable...

Water is essential for human life and at the centre of political, economic and socio-cultural development. This Routledge Handbook on Water and Development offers a systematic, wide-ranging and state-of-the-art guide to the diverse links between water...

Based on rich ethnographic data and interviews gathered among Russian emigrants to EU member-states, this book explores the activities of those who voice political dissent after leaving their country, analysing the content, structure and the channels of...

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter. It introduces Rafter's key works and assesses her contributions to the fields of feminist criminology, cultural criminology, and historical criminology, and explores her...

Influential on those in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as well as families, this book remains essential reading for anyone seeking a creative and compelling understanding of autism in children. Includes a new foreword by Maria Rhode.

This book examines the challenges of urbanization in the global south and the linkages between urbanization, economic development and urban poverty from the perspectives of the cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This book focuses on the expanding contemporary art scene in Syria, particularly Damascus, during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The decade was characterized by a high degree of experimentation as young artists began to work with...

This Handbook provides a comprehensive account of contemporary Israeli diplomacy and analyses the changing dynamics of Israel's bilateral relations over the past seventy-five years.

This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy.　 Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain is central to our...

This handbook interrogates the foundations of media literacy and media education research from a methodological standpoint. It provides a detailed, illustrated overview of key methods used in the study of media literacy and media education.

This book features evidence from several disciplines exploring initiatives that have improved food environments and discusses the importance of achieving success in equitable and sustainable ways.

Perspectives on Behavioural Interventions in Palliative and End-of-Life Care is an accessible resource that collates and explores interventions that can be used to address a wide range of behavioural, psychological, social, and spiritual issues that...

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development.Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as...

This book offers an alternative understanding of the modern history of Mizoram through an analysis of its cultural practices through language, music, poetry and festivals. It explores the sensibility of modern cultural works not just in Christianity, but...

In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills, Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having...

This book provides an approachable introduction to Mead's contemporary relevance in the social sciences, showing how a pragmatic view of social action serves as the core of Mead's theory, offering striking insights into human agency, symbolism, politics,...

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841-1901.

Drug and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults provides a timely, comprehensive overview and analysis of the silent epidemic of drug and substance abuse involving elderly Americans.  

The book analyses concepts and ideas that are particularly important for the political discourse in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795). It is addressed to readers from the academic milieu as well to all interested in the history of political...

This book is essential for anyone interested in learning about the therapeutic potential of orthodox and state-of-the-art supports for autistics.

This book explores the multitude of thoughts, theories, opinions, methods, and approaches to play therapy in order to highlight the unity and diversity of theory and perspective in the field.

This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government. 　.

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties, fears and vulnerabilities associated with ageing.

This collection is made up of contributions from scholars producing empirical work on some of the key areas upon which Geoff Pearson established his reputation.

This book explores the intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. Culture-specific churches provide a safe if "imagined community" in which young people can express these emerging identities, which...

This handbook offers a unique critical, and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of community psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world.

Critical disability studies both questions these existing notions of disability and interrogates how they have become a part of the academic attitude towards the field. As the first comprehensive handbook on critical disability studies, this volume...

There is evidence of a movement from "a culture of narcissism" toward elements of a perverse culture. This book examines the evidence as it reveals itself through the work organisation. This examination gives access to most of the dynamics operating...

Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing Their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide provides an outline for therapists wishing to help clients deal with life's adversities by encouraging them to change their attitudes.

This book deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of the indigenous people from across the world. It looks at issues and ideas of indigeneity, nationhood, nationality, State, identity, selfhood, constitutionalism, and citizenship in...

This volume investigates the perception of threat, with particular regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of media.

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations.

Drawing on provocative case studies, personal interviews, and detailed research, Managing Death examines the medical, legal, ethical, and clinical aspects of right-to-die issues.

Challenging Lies' is a book arguing that Africa's plight is external in origin-the result of the imperialism of Western countries whose survival depends on the systematic plundering of Africa. Massocki so powerfully argues that western imperialism...