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2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between countries and areas as uneven in size and influence as...

Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450742535Author Brad BlantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent PublisherWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm)...

While women have struggled to gain recognition in the discipline of philosophy, there is no shortage of brilliant female thinkers. What can these women teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas...

Despite the steady growth of feminism in sociology, little attention has been paid to feminist research on religion. Nason-Clark and Neitz begin to fill this gap, asking leading feminist sociologists of religion to reflect on their work and lives. In...

This study attempts to shed some light on the origin, sources, structure, significance and consequences of the theory of Ernst Haeckel.About the AuthorDr. Mario A. Di Gregorio ist Professor fA"r Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der UniversitAt Aquila (Italien)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832537036Author Carlos Gustavo VillelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

According to a common understanding of economics, economists attempt to understand and explain societal reality in the light of individual self-interest. For them, a gift is no exception to this, except for the slight and misleading veil of altruism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832535247Author Abate Mekuriaw BizunehFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832533533Author Juan Antonio Roche C�rcelFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825360948Author Winfried FluckFormat HardbackPage Count 486Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 657g

This volume is devoted to post-communist Central Europe and is divided into three parts. The first part covers some general issues of social theory and politics, ranging from the chances for social-liberalism under post-communism, through a new dichotomy...

The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within...

This book gives decision-makers a logical overall philosophy of risk that will enable them to make sound and consistently defensible decisions about the acceptability of risk. The authors examine a variety of activities - as diverse as major industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536151091Author Joseph MarchesseaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Along with the concepts of social role, social group, social network, social class, and social structure, the notion of impersonality is one of the pillars of the sociological imagination: the ability to think beyond individuals and see them as members...

This book provides a detailed structured analysis of the transition that has taken place in the Indian economy since independence to the present times (including the period of COVID-19 pandemic). Analysing objectives, achievements and failure of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832542740Author Juan A. Roche C�rcelFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

This exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the liberal reforms and coffee revolutions of the...

In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed...

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration...

Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Chãm ethnic groups challenge a...

Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and...

In 2019, the United States' trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT) firm entwined with China's political-economic...

An exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory, Ethical Encounters examines contemporary, woman-centered Muktijuddho cinema-features and documentaries that focus on the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Elora Chowdhury shows...

No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women. Susan Goodier finds that conservative women who fought against...

The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated...

There seems to be a tendency to consider police crime as a result of bad practice, lack of resources or mismanagement, rather than acts of criminals. However, examples illustrate that criminal acts are intentionally carried out by police officers on duty...

Often seen as ethnically monolithic, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in fact successfully pursued evangelism among diverse communities of indigenous peoples and Black Indians. Christina Dickerson-Cousin tells the little-known story of the...

Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for understanding this social issue as well as the broad...

First published in 1968, Demographic Analysis was written to provide a comprehensive account of demographic methods for those with a need to understand population movements. The book provides an introduction to some of the key tools used by...

Most Americans-even those with significant disability-want to live in their homes and communities. Unpaid family members or friends often work as "informal" caregivers, helping those who need assistance- and many feel they have no option but to...

"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story."-Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people-from lonely...

Examining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439920848Author Henry C. BinfordFormat HardbackPage Count 373Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 152g

What does is it mean for girls of color to become techno-social change agents--individuals who fuse technological savvy with a deep understanding of society in order to analyze and confront inequality? Kimberly A. Scott explores this question and others...

An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439922330Author Long T. BuiFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 152g

Professor John Quicker and Akil Batani-Khalfani, aka Bird, met in Quicker's classroom and soon developed an easy rapport. As Bird shared his knowledge of the Slausons-a legendary 1950s/1960s gang in Los Angeles that pre-dated the infamous Crips and...

First published in 1982, Professional Power and Social Welfare examines the nature, extent and significance of professional power in the broad area of social welfare. Paul Wilding fills a major gap in the literature of the welfare professions. He looks...