Society & Social Sciences Books

For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound...

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of...

Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by original live-action programming popular among tween girls. The shows' successes rely not only on their popularity among girl audiences, but also on the development of star personae by girl...

Hollywood's live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense...

The Middle East conflict system is perhaps the world's most important and intractable problem area, whose developments carry global consequences. An effective investigation of the context and change in the region calls for a melding of academic...

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean...

This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories...

The Iraqi Disputed Territories consist of 15 districts stretching across four northern governorates. While an administrative solution for the disputed territories remains evasive, minority groups across the region have been pulled into a clash over...

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book...

This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman's reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She...

Globalization, immigration and economic crisis challenge the conceptions of nations, trans-national institutions and post-ethnic societies which are central topics in social sciences' discourses. This book examines in an interdisciplinary and...

Combating white-collar crime is a challenge as these criminals are found among the most powerful members of society, including politicians, business executives, and government officials. While there are many approaches to understanding this topic,...

The enormous sums paid for the release of hostages coupled with law enforcement's inability to stem the tide has made kidnapping for ransom a worldwide plague. The increasing rate of reported incidents from every corner of the globe suggests this plague...

Policing is a highly pragmatic occupation. It is designed to achieve the important social ends of peacekeeping and public safety, and is empowered to do so using means that are ordinarily seen as problematic; that is, the use of force, deception, and...

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. Within theoretical criminology, however, race has oddly remained on the periphery. It is often introduced as a control...

This book explores the circulation and reception of popular discourses of achieving girlhood, and the ways in which girls themselves participate in such circulation. It examines the figure of the achieving girl within wider discourses of neoliberal...

Each year, the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) holds a global conference for police scholars and practitioners to exchange information about the latest trends in police practice and research. Drawn from recent proceedings, The Evolution...

A thought provoking, persuasive, challenging, and above all practical guide for beginners and more experienced therapists alike. It shows the demands and complexity of marital work and is an important reminder of the interdependence of theory and...

Analyzing Group Interactions gives a comprehensive overview of the use of different methods for the analysis of group interactions. International experts from a range of different disciplines within the social sciences illustrate their step-by-step...

This book describes the adoption and implementation of the Single European Act and the accompanying institutional changes that have taken place in the European Community during the 1980s. It emphasizes the decisions on European integration in the context...

This book embodies a pioneer effort to bring philosophical developments in the logic of rules, and indeed the legal perspective in which the logic naturally arises, into an intelligible relation with the leading ideas of economists about rules.

This study looks at the implications of demographic changes in the USA for business, government and the public. Using up-to-date census information, the author provides a brief historical overview of recent demographic change in the USA and explains the...

This book puts forth an integrated theory of deviance—control balance. It critically reviews other general theories such as anomie, Marxian conflict, social control, differential association/social learning, labelling, and routine activities.

This book provides an approach to analyzing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and rural women by using specific criteria to compare the effectiveness, especially with women's development, of two NGOs in Karnataka, South India: India Development...

This book identifies the political and legal issues surrounding the codification of the law of diplomatic protection. It analyses the seriousness of the security issue for diplomats and increase in diplomatic attacks and the impact of this form of...

Argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience' has a central place/key role to play in contemporary psychoanalytic debate, and that this tension can best be...

The author has three goals in writing this book. The first is to explore large-group identity such as ethnic identity, diplomacy, political propaganda, terrorism and the role of leaders in international affairs. The second goal is to describe societal...

This book foregrounds the life struggles of an individual, Brenda, in such a way that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience. The "frustration" of the title is traced to avoidant attachment - pretending not to need...

This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional disciplines and diverse theoretical backgrounds.

Initially designed to accompany Mark Lanier and Stuart Henry's best-selling Essential Criminology textbook, this new reader is an up-to-date companion text perfect for all students of introductory criminology and criminological theory courses.

This book is a study of the political consequences of economic reform in the People's Republic of China, considering the progress and pitfalls of Chinese reform socialism and focusing on the three central policy arenas of the reform era: political...

<p><strong>W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C. S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Stevie Smith... These are some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith find expression in their works, and who...

Irene Pierce Dunn's life started out in hardship, abandonment and abuse in foster homes. She is the adult child of two alcoholic parents. The author triumphs over juvenile delinquency, peppered with suicidal tendencies, and suffers through psychosis,...

NOTES FROM THE MARGIN is about the subjective experience of feeling like an outsider. Through personal and sometimes humorous stories and real-life examples, author Katherine E. Mezei explores some situations in which we may temporarily choose to...

Guarding Doors is a collection of true security events. It outlines what it was like working in the dangerous world of public housing for Community Guardian Company Limited and the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority."I need Metro Police at the rear...

This is a true story of a young Canadian man who has psychosis and is commanded by voices to start travelling. His mental health deteriorates as he travels. He ends up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He somehow manages to meet with a group of Cossacks whom he finds...

While public administration practice and education in general has become considerably professionalized in the last decade, existing knowledge on public administration in Southeast Asia is fragmented at best, and often devoid of a useful reference. While...

While the job of a clinician in a disaster scenario is to save lives without regard for the cause or rationale for the injury, medical and emergency professionals who understand the diverse aspects of a disaster are better equipped to respond effectively...

"Frank Wade was born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in October 1921. He was sent to England to train for the navy in the schoolship HMS Conway in Liverpool and the Dartmouth (Devon) Royal Navy College from 1936 to December 1940. Then in May 1941 he was...

Discover the lives of people of Grand Strand. Learn about a Nazi pilot who became an American citizen (Walter Luff); or an author in charge of the WPA Writers Project (Mabel Montgomery).Charles Joyner is a Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern...

Tools For Your Emotional Health Toolbox (formerly titled Tools For Your Toolbox) is a practical, hands-on workbook filled with almost 300 pages of ideas, how to's, activities, worksheets, detailed lesson plans, and informational handouts. The book can be...

In 1984, Ginette Hodgson decided that her life was leading nowhere, so she quit the "rat-race" and moved to Tonga.Her deceased husband had fallen in love with the islands, when he visited Tonga, whilst serving in the Canadian Navy. It had been his dream...

This book is about our riveting secrets, and our journey through ourselves. It is the application of quantum psychology into the human drama. The result takes us into the twenty-second century and a whole new self-choosing to live differently in every...

How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley,...

Research Skills for Journalists is a comprehensive, engaging and highly practical guide to developing the varied skillset needed for producing well researched, quality journalism across a range of platforms.Illustrated with original interviews and case...

The proceedings of this conference, held in the Lombardy region, dictate the guidelines for wide-ranging work on underground architecture. They offer a perspective for carrying out precise mapping of urban and extra-urban underground areas. It can be...

Genova 1746-1748 presenta un quadro storico completo sull'assedio di Genova ad opera dell'armate combinate imperiale e piemontese durante la Guerra di Successione Austriaca. L'attenzione è rivolta agli eventi, ai protagonisti dell'assedio e alle...