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Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as "dons" exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders de......more

Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as "dons" exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders de......more

Increasingly, faculty with intersectional perspectives are challenging many aspects of higher education and urging a rad......more

In the ongoing global pursuit for a fairer and more equitable world, the battle against poverty stands as a cornerstone.......more

sambo is racialised naming, deeply rooted in the colonial legacies of white European settler colonial societies globally......more

Won explores the untold story of immigration in South Korea through a new precariat lens. Unlike traditional narratives,......more

Experiments have gained prominence in sociology in recent years. Increased interest in testing causal theories through e......more

Experiments have gained prominence in sociology in recent years. Increased interest in testing causal theories through e......more

Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, Punishment in Lat......more

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Originally published in 1990, Gendered Jobs and Social Change is a systematic exploration of the changing structure of w......more

During the 1980s a notable development in mainstream social policy in the United Kingdom was the emergence of a feminist......more

Originally published in 1981 Controlling Women critically examines the forms of moral regulation and social control that......more

Taking on historical events in Latin America as its starting point, this book examines the migration of its inhabitants ......more

Taking on historical events in Latin America as its starting point, this book examines the migration of its inhabitants ......more

This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitione......more

In today’s modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Althoug......more

What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about f......more

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"This is a book about cities - how unexpectedly different they were in various countries and times, and cities that neve......more

An updated edition of the beloved final volume in Joseph Campbell’s monumental Masks of God series, Creative Mythology t......more

An award-winning author’s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America’s food s......more

If a measure of our humanity is how we treat the most vulnerable, our report card is bleak. Our politics is divided, peo......more

Despite the pivotal role played by parents in the child protection process, little attention has been paid to how social......more

A cutting-edge study of marriage’s transformative effects on same-sex relationships. It is no secret that marriage rates......more

An updated edition of the beloved final volume in Joseph Campbell’s monumental Masks of God series, Creative Mythology t......more

Can one city’s solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally? The United States grapples wi......more

A "learned and lively" (Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains) account of the history of old age in modern Americ......more

Experience the enchantment of the faerie realm with this pocket-sized beginner’s guide to their captivating history and ......more

To mitigate climate, biodiversity, and public health crises, the global agrifood system needs radical change. The Global......more

"Sex Work Now presents data-driven stories written by academics, sex working academics, and sex workers documenting crit......more

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South  After the constitutional end to slave......more

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery......more

Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, refle......more

"Grounded in decades of clinical experience, this practical book presents a research-informed framework for delivering p......more

This book spotlights and demystifies under-researched elements of research design to support successful research initiat......more

Two recent developments created a need for this book, the first is the ratification of the United Nation’s Convention on......more

Sparking a discussion of the importance of creativity for the well-being of society, this book highlights and argues for......more

The book is divided into two sections: one focusing on the phenomenon of television and the other on audiences. It argue......more

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"Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its "world-city" transformation that stimulated rapid......more

Books are signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, foil stamping, a cloth slipcase, and a ribbon marker. NEW YORK TI......more

Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in children......more

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in ......more

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in ......more

This book explores how narratives have been and can be used to facilitate radical transformations towards a more sustain......more

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of i......more

Conceptualizing how digital artifacts can function as a frontier mediated by technology in the geographical, physical, s......more

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of i......more

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the auth......more

India, despite being largely rural, has struggled to maintain an adequate social infrastructure in its rural regions due......more

The "Manipal Interdisciplinary Health Science and Technical Reports-2023" is a comprehensive compilation of cutting-edge......more

Asynchronicity is a study of the information stress and its genesis in the accelerative dynamics of computation and auto......more

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region’s sovereign states to ......more

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region’s sovereign states to ......more

This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists......more

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and ec......more

This open access book discusses three areas in which Germany has long-standing experience and solutions that are valuabl......more

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for legal practitioners, providing a primer on digital forensic evidence and e......more

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"An anthropological inquiry into how people with the neurodegenerative illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis live with t......more

Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications, and cultural representations o......more

Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challengin......more

Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challengin......more

Kolliniati’s groundbreaking book, Interpreting Human Rights: Narratives from Asylum Centers in Greece and Philosophical ......more

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses......more

This book brings together research and studies in the fields of organised crime and of ’green criminality’ against the n......more

The ubiquity of digital platforms in everyday life has considerable ramifications for contemporary leisure travel. Drawi......more

This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in col......more

Surviving the City: The Italian and Chinese Immigrant Experiences in New York City, 1890-1970 represents one of the earl......more

Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as ’proble......more

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal ......more

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal ......more