Society & Social Sciences Books

NICK HUN gives his account of what it was like to serve in combat as an officer with the 5th Special Forces, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and as a pilot with the 190th Assault Helicopter Company, flying "guns" over the same ground he fought upon wearing a...

El partidismo de la Fuerza Armada ha sido refrendado desde el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia por la Sentencia 651 del 11 de junio de 2014, la cual valida la intervención de sus integrantes en actos políticos del PSUV: "la participación de los integrantes...

"Blackout Warfare" is the term used in this report to describe a revolutionary new way of warfare planned by Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran that is still little understood in the United States, but poses an imminent and existential threat to...

When Mika Kuramoto gave birth to her firstborn daughter, Seri, in a New York hospital thousands of miles away from her native country, the hospital staff informed her that her daughter had been born with multiple disabilities, including the extremely...

Do you often find yourself struggling to get a handle on your emotions? How many times have you found yourself feeling guilt, regret even over the things that you said and did when you were emotional? Emotions are one of the most powerful, underlying...

A concept of warfare is only a module to simulate a possible eventuality or expected scenario that might occur in the battlefield and battlefront. This is to say that experts understand the risks of real battles and the challenges that might arise...

Narges Kalbasi Ashtari, a British/Iranian, life took an unexpected turn when she lost her parents at a tender age. Determined to make a difference, she embarked on a mission to aid orphaned children, leading her to the state of Odisha in India at just 21...

"I discovered I had rejected my own masculinity, but not because I didn't want to be a boy... I simply wasn't very good at it."In this powerful personal memoir, Todd Norman Ringness takes readers on his emotional journey as it happened through...

"Think before you believe." Despite her strict Christian upbringing, skepticism was somehow in Sharon Taylor's DNA. Perhaps it was a young girl's innate sense of right and wrong that led her to root out bigots and perverts, question the hypocrisy in her...

Is there anything better than sleeping deeply, and waking up to a rising dawn with a smile? Studies show that 57 percent of North American women experience insomnia at least a few times a week, making their way through restless nights as best they can...

What do you do when you receive a vision from God, telling you to build a church? Eighteen years ago, Betty Charles received such a vision. She was a new believer, and the vision seemed impossible. In her search for answers to her many questions about...

Decency and Deception: Encouragement for a Struggling Nation, takes the reader on an information pack journey looking at the events that transpired leading up to and during the Trump Presidency. Describing those elements that defined, and haunted the one...

The story of Medusa Gorgonis is partly based on the classical Medusa, one of the three Gorgon sisters, and Greek mythology. It depicts the untold story of Medusa: the brave girl who becomes a powerful leader of women warriors, the monstrous Serpent...

This book presents the culmination of a 14-year pathbreaking research project examining the risks of civilisation collapse and potential solutions to avoid such an outcome. A profound diagnosis reveals that the root issue lies in the widening rift...

Nightfall ushers in its own set of terrors. With every external light ablaze until dawn, I find solace in the illusion of visibility. But every creak, every rustle throws me into high alert, compelling me to scour the house for signs of the looming...

Twelve Great Scots and their Roots brings together People - the Great Scots, Place - where they were shaped and flourished, and Fame - their legacy. None of the Great Scots was born great. There is no Robert the Bruce here, no Mary, Queen of Scots...

Divorce doesn't have to be a messy and tragic process, especially when there are children involved. In fact, research shows that about 20% of divorces are amicable. Couples with minor children who have good communication skills and a focus on long-term...

Peter Crawford is well known in Australia and internationally for his leadership in reforming governmental organisations and institutions, notably in environmental and water domains. In recent years he has focused on the role of political ideas and...

Chicanas/os are part of the youngest, largest, and fastest growing racial/ethnic 'minority' population in the United States, yet at every schooling level, they suffer the lowest educational outcomes of any racial/ethnic group. Using a...

Outside Myanmar, the 2021 coup d'état has often been portrayed as the end of a hopeful period for the country. In this Adelphi book, Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong argue that the Aung San Suu Kyi government that preceded it was a false dawn, unlikely to...

This book discusses the importance of recognizing the relationship between humans, animals, plants, and their environment to attain optimum health results. The key objectives of this work are to identify and track the numerous risk factors to promote...

Race and ethnicity are central to our lived experiences of politics, yet they are often absent from studies of urgent questions in contemporary political communication. This volume responds to this crucial issue, illuminating the ways in which identity...

This book offers leaders, especially those in disaster management, a way to improve their ability to lead, serve, and protect others during disasters and crises. An essential text for aspiring and experienced leaders, especially those in the fields of...

The book examines the influence of context in which elections in contemporary India take place. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and researchers of Indian politics and South Asian studies.

This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions. It explores a range of posthuman dilemmas across diverse health issues as contributors grapple with the ethical, ontological and...

This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this.

This book expands on the existing literature on the international dimension of democratization by introducing the concept of democracy projection.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.

Hamilton explores in a short history how all men gained the vote, self-government and the secret ballot in South Australia (1856), Victoria (1857) and New South Wales (1858). A vital text for scholars of democracy, Australian Studies, Political Science,...

This title has been fully updated to provide a comprehensive guide to identifying man-made threats to an organization, determining the vulnerabilities to those threats, specifying security upgrades to mitigate those threats, and acquiring and...

This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose, and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead...

Monitoring and Evaluation of Practice and Methods in Applied Social Research is a comprehensive guide delving into the core concepts, tools, methods, and approaches of M&E.

This book brings together experts engaging in empirical studies on how emotion influences learning and processing for varying text types in different contexts. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Discourse Processes.

This volumes re-examines the notion of the East Asian peace, arguing that it requires updating for the current and near-future context of US-Chinese rivalry.

This book provides a detailed view of public nutrition and health. It discusses the various statistical tools and their appropriate application in public health and nutrition research, surveys, evaluation and program designing.

The book develops a robust and holistic theoretical understanding of the intrinsic security concerns which lie at the heart of the protracted conflict in Cyprus.

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided...

This book compares the life courses of forced migrants in two of the world's most important transit countries: Turkey and Mexico. It examines the local, regional, and global contexts of their experiences, trajectories, and biographical projects, caught...

The edited volume tackles two main questions: first, what are the main claims, struggles, and possibilities of contemporary intersectional feminisms; and second, how shall we, as scholars, address intersectional (feminist) activisms in our research -...

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism.

This book explores the unusual and unique experience of direct democracy in the small state of New Zealand, offering an extended study of the law and practice of referendums there. It also expands the field of small state democracy studies by applying...

Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.

In this volume, the authors adopt an intersectional methodology to question Italian "white innocence" and to examine the specificity of Italian racial discourse through the analysis of different kinds of texts and representations.

Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice.

This book considers the sensitive heritage elements linked to the very issue of the origins of nations. Beliefs, rituals, and traditional knowledge are examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which communities globally regard as the core of their...

This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.