Society & Social Sciences Books

I Know My Temperament Blend Now What? This workbook is written for Christians who want to know how to develop their natural tendencies and deal with their strengths and weaknesses biblically.Workbooks for all twelve temperament blends are a culmination...

I Know My Temperament Blend Now What? This workbook is written for Christians who want to know how to develop their natural tendencies and deal with their strengths and weaknesses biblically.Workbooks for all twelve temperament blends are a culmination...

A baby's brain is still developing at birth. The quality and type of parenting provided has the potential to affect the development of the brain and so will impact a child's emotional health and well-being. In this way what happens in the early years...

A practical introduction to group facilitation for students and professionals in the human services.

Coaching is way of providing the space for such thoughts, reflections, and insights into our possibilities. This title presents a coaching method that is based on a specific theory - psychodynamics.

Deeply Human is a book for people who have persevered through stress, silence, shame, and the pain of feeling misunderstood.Maybe you've had to be the strong one. A person who listens more than they speak. Someone who's done so much to help others and...

Beneath the banner of 'universal brotherhood' gathered not the salt of the earth, but a drifting substratum of Europe's political underworld-exiles without country, thinkers without readers, zealots without gods. In this unsparing account, first...

The Anglo-German rivalry in battleship building at the beginning of the twentieth century has been blamed by many as a major cause of the First World War, yet 'the Great Naval Race' has not received the attention that its notoriety would merit.

A new way of thinking about the nature of, and solutions to, contemporary poverty, disadvantage and inequality in Australia

Featuring contributions from some of the most active researchers in the field, Flow at Work: Measurement and Implications is an important book in an emerging field of study. The concept of flow has enormous implications for organizations as well as the...

Black graduate deans at historically white institutions have long navigated the complexities of higher education leadership while advocating for diversity, equity, and student success. This compelling volume brings together their stories, insights, and...

"A critical overview of scientific orthodoxy in an attempt to answer the fundamental questions "what are we?" and "why are we here?" (Kirkus Reviews).Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us...

The emergence of sport for development as a developmental strategy led by the United Nations and the use of sport by companies around the world as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies have brought to the fore its developmental utility...

Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this far-reaching book elucidates human sorrow in striking sociocultural and clinical details.

This book unravels the different notions of time and history that are implicit in the history of child psychoanalysis and in the clinical approach to childhood. It is based, in part, on topics that have been addressed in the seminar Psychoanalysis and...

With the backlash against feminism and reproductive rights since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many people are asking whether feminism is lost, if not dead. With so many rights on the chopping block, including rights to contraception and...

Naval Power in Action focuses attention to the United States' current competition with China, laying out a case for acting in three areas: strengthen the homeland to economic coercion, modernize and reorganize institutions to successfully compete,...

Piece of the Puzzle: The History of My Ancestors on the Bay Islands dives into the deep history of the journey the modern settlers took from England to the British West Indies to settle in the Bay Islands. Keila Rochelle Thompson Gough, a native...

While No One's Watching is a shocking exposé of government corruption, greed, cronyism, and abuse of authority in Kentucky, based on investigative reports from former special agent turned investigative journalist Darlene Fitzgerald Price. Drawing from...

What if your mind held the key to joy, clarity, and transformation-and all it needed was the right manual?Mind Manual: Train Your Mind, Transform Your Vibe is your invitation to step into a new paradigm-one where mood isn't a mystery but a design. Where...

Guidance for the modern perplexed. In this selection of critical and provocative essays, the author examines many of our popular beliefs about culture, science, psychology and psychotherapy. It serves as an antidote to the mixture of misinformation,...

Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context illuminates the lives of the courageous individuals involved in the early struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights in the United States. Authored by those who knew them (often...

This work presents a comprehensive history and evaluation of the role of the 100 percent reserve plan in the banking legislation of the New Deal reform era from its inception in 1933 to its re-emergence in the current financial reform debate in the US.

A history of the Dominican Republic from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book focuses on the merger of three cultures across time - the indiginous cultures of the Caribbean, the Iberians of southern Europe and the Africans.

Discusses Joseph Clark Grew's role in the formation of postwar US policy on Japan and the emperor. The text examines the evolution of Ambassador Grew's convictions and demonstrates their impact on postwar US-Japan relations.

This book provides information on graduate programs in the United States and Canada to students and professionals who are interested in attending post-baccalaureate education in criminology or criminal justice. The book contains information for each...

Trauma is one of the hottest contemporary topics within psychoanalysis, whilst many psychoanalysts are increasingly interested in applying their skills outside the traditional setting of the consulting room, especially in response to disasters, wars and...

Originally published in 1977, this volume was intended to provide a relatively elementary and clear overview of some of the more important approaches to social psychology at the time.

Policymaking for Citizen Behavior Change is designed to demonstrate the ways in which social marketing can be an effective and efficient tool to change citizens' behavior, and how to advocate for and support its appropriate application. Examining a...

Drawing on the expertise of a range of international contributors, this volume provides the first integrated exploration of research in individual differences, developmental psychology and judgment and decision-making. Despite the substantial work that...

Russia has a very large pool of economic migrants. Although many migrants entered Russia legally, they frequently face bureaucratic obstacles to legal employment and Russian citizenship, factors which have led to a very large "shadow economy". This book...

Since its inception, the European Union (EU) has revised its foundational treaties several times, resulting in national ratification processes involving different actors, with varying success. This book focuses on the politics of ratification of EU...

Sociology of Crisis: Visualising Urban Austerity is a timely investigation into core sociological perspectives on crisis and austerity: time, the 'Other', contagion and urban space; resistance and future(s). Using methods from visual and urban sociology,...

Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism addresses these new dimensions, bringing together experts in the field to explore the various and fluid modes of expressing and defining Jewish identity in the modern world. Its interdisciplinary...

Psychosis Under Discussion examines the ways in which psychosis is discussed by considering the relationship between language and the perception of mental disorder. A wide range of perspectives is discussed, from historical terms to contemporary media...

Relational psychoanalysis and Jewish philosophy have many things to say on the dynamics of human relationships, but this is the first book to explore the many similarities between these 2 disciplines. Oppenheim draws on the major relational theorists...

This book shows how to use biopsychosocial assessment for crime prevention and to achieve more individualized treatment for those who commit crimes.

This book considers the core theoretical concepts central to understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, providing a clear view of what machines can achieve and what sets them apart from humans.

A unique cross-cultural resource with practical insights and theoretical reflections of great value for academics, scholars, educators and practitioners in the fields of theatre studies, dramaturgy, cross-cultural performance studies, contemporary...

This book invites the reader to understand how the practice of political forgiveness and sovereignty have changed, evolved, and developed over time. Londrigan offers original insights into forgiveness as part of an analysis of prerogative power, and thus...

This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth- to eighteenth-century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender.

Written by one of Sicily's leading medievalists, this is the first compendium (in English) about the historical women of Sicily. Meet a sisterhood of pious Roman maidens, steadfast queens, and a Jewish mother confronting the horrors of the Inquisition...

Volume Eighteen of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes one to seventeen of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential,...

This volume, first published in 1975, traces what happens when the crises of adolescence are not sufficiently well negotiated. The topics debated and explored include: emotional conflicts; educational drop-outs; social conflict; delinquency; acting-out,...

This book examines wildfire awareness and preparedness amongst households, communities and agencies at the wildland-urban interface in Australia and the United States. Women's and men's stories of surviving, living and working with wildfire reveal the...

Since the end of the 1980 coup d'état Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of this process in a Turkish context, this book brings together...

This book presents a novel and cutting-edge interpretation of the evolving political economy of the Americas. Through a combination of qualitative research and theory, it considers the reconstruction of American-led hegemony in the Americas since the...

Relying on new quantitative research results, the contributors offer interdisciplinary analyses of symbolic nation-building in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to show that whereas the citizens of some...