Social Science

There is a time and a season to all things, and death is an inevitable part of the circle of life.Oral traditions from all over the world are full of stories giving shape to the very human wish to defy death - our own death and the deaths of others. Folk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345533272Author Tracy McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

From the Preface:This essay outlines a perspective for the study of leadership in administrative organizations. It was written in the conviction that more reflective, theoretical discussion is needed to guide the gathering of facts that the diagnosis of...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Jean Dreze has a rare and distinctive...

This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when there are concerns about the safety...

Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it. It turns out that, over the last 12,000 years, we have become more and more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534762Author Tracy K. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert...

This invaluable manual from world-renowned expert Johnny Saldana illuminates the process of qualitative coding and provides clear, insightful guidance for qualitative researchers at all levels. The fourth edition includes a range of updates that build...

The many influences of the past on our diet today make the concept of 'British food' very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans all brought ingredients to the table, as it were, and onwards the Crusades gave us all manner of...

First published in 1989, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the victims of crime and the way in which they are treated in society generally, and in the criminal justice process in particular. The study of victims of crime is...

If you want to use interview methods in your research project but are not sure where to start, this book will get you up and running. With hands-on advice for every stage of the social research process, it helps you succeed in every step, from...

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of...

An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250276117Author Kate ManginoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

ePUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines how and why experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain varied according to ethnicity. Drawing from the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS), the book...

Only the power to define what is sacred - and access it - will enable Native American communities to remember who they are. The indigenous imperative to honour nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling...

Trends have become a commodity-an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and in profound ways even manufacture trends...

Practical, cost-effective tools for personal and organizational risk mitigation In Bootstrapping Ethics: Integrity Risk Management for Real-World Application, accomplished fraud investigator and risk advisor Rupert Evill delivers a smart, simple, and...

Integration is now a key expectation within the delivery of health and social care services in the UK and internationally. However, it still remains difficult to achieve and sustain in practice. Based on learning from successful, and unsuccessful,...

Examines transformational moments and liberation movements in the decolonization of inherited Western academic traditions in Africa. This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the...

The first academic study of the phenomenon of The Archers fandom from the fans themselves. The fourth instalment in the Academic Archers collection, Fandom Culture and The Archers looks beyond the popular success of the Archers to explore how the...

Not Only the Master's Tools brings together new essays on African American studies. It is ideal for students and scholars of African studies, philosophy, literary theory, educational theory, social and political thought, and postcolonial studies.About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038973Author Ria BrodellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062513151Author Carol Lee FlindersFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm)...

According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths,...

Hasidism has been a seminal force and source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the eighteenth century. Indeed, almost every ideological trend that has made itself felt among Jews since that time-from Zionism and...

'This is an excellent book. It addresses what, in both conceptual and political terms, is arguably the most important source of tension and confusion in current arguments about the environment, namely the concept of nature; and it does so in a way that...

A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture - and what we can do to fight their influenceFour titanic corporations are now the most powerful gatekeepers the world has ever known. We shop with Amazon, socialise...

Identity is never just an individual matter; it is intricately shaped by our experiences of social life. Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, and drawing on Goffman's dramaturgical theory, Susie Scott explores the micro-social processes of...

Friends can help to form the basic structure of our lives but we very often take them for granted. Friends can sometimes be regarded as an oppressive burden when they appear to be greedily demanding too much of us. How to get the balance right is a...

With contributions from internationally recognized experts, this edited volume presents original thinking on the theory, research and practice surrounding child neglect.Comprehensive and current, the book takes an expansive look at how we can better...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360272Author Gerard CaseyFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 14mm

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. Taking a long historical perspective, the...

"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist, revolutionary, and district justice Sean Mac Giollarnath, whose...

From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an...

The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring groundbreaking experimentation in the world of art and design, where the focus is...

The Fifth Edition of Floyd J. Fowler Jr.'s bestselling Survey Research Methods presents the very latest methodological knowledge on surveys. Offering a sound basis for evaluating how each aspect of a survey can affect its precision, accuracy, and...

This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community, focusing on children who require clinical procedures,...

To be poor, working-class, or a person of colour in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, ...