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Out of the many challenges facing Africa today, there is the tendency of some to manipulate religious and ethnic identities for private interests. The book examines how religion has given rise to these conditions in Africa, by weaving together issues of...

High-risk youth are rarely able to succeed in school, on the job, in their family relationships, or in society at large. They often express hopelessness, frustration, anger. Even after they have acquired skills and have begun to work, they tend to lose...

During the 1950s and 1960s increasing numbers of American citizens were stationed in foreign countries, and a whole generation of American children grew up abroad. As the interdependence of nations increases, new generations of Absentee Americans will be...

^IThe Assault on Equality^R critiques the social theory underpinning the social policies of the new political right. It focuses on the attempt by Herrnstein and Murray in ^IThe Bell Curve^R to provide theoretical justification for social program cutbacks...

In a world where technology is continually advancing, and problems are becoming more and more complex, established practices for decision making and problem solving are no longer effective. In this new book, however, Enid Mumford draws on her wealth of...

This volume examines issues of economic interest faced by Latin America economies in the late Twentieth-century. The fifteen chapters deal with macroeconomic problems, financial crises, the development of trade and trade agreements and labour issues. Of...

During the 1980s, poverty became a major issue of debate in the countries of the E.C. Social researchers, political decision-makers and the mass media have argued that this poverty takes new forms and affects new groups of the population. This book first...

Drawing on the fields of political economy and historical sociology, Jones dispels the overwhelming consensus among scholars that members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) never interfere in the internal affairs of other states, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998646220Author Stephen G WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Stephen G. WrightPublisher Stephen G. WrightWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931872037Author Shannon YarbroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Richard King PublicationsPublisher Richard King PublicationsWeight(grams) 417g

This book brings together scholars of political economy, law and sociology to interrogate the seemingly unproblematic notions - the rules of law, good corporate governance, and flexible labour market - that inform neoliberal policy prescriptions. It also...

An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts and issues in the psychology of Buddhism and thus it deals with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984216581Author Sheila KeeganFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Isce PublishingPublisher Isce PublishingWeight(grams) 129g

Analysis and research on relationships;Communities and social networks;Social skill and social competence;Increasing competencies;Evaluating change.Book InformationISBN 9780412433801Author Mark BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Chapman and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645801064Author Carrie BenedetFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Power Writers Publishing GroupPublisher Power Writers Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687083909Author Robert PerskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 237g

This book applies Revolution in Military Affairs theories to explain the various strategic victories and losses for assorted social forces in Colombia and Mexico. These countries form the ideal comparative case study of RMA, both from above by the state,...

In this book J. M. Balkin offers a strikingly original theory of cultural evolution, a theory that explains shared understandings, disagreement, and diversity within cultures. Drawing on many fields of study-including anthropology, evolutionary theory,...

Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology. These essays explore the theoretical significance of this trend and its impact on society, as well as examining a wide range of case studies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780567097071Author Peter MathesonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint T.& T.Clark LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806302621Author Margaret Cross NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 550g

"A remarkable new analysis of how African Americans and Haitians interacted over the long term. It asserts bold new methods and conclusions on inter-American relations, Pan Americanism, and U.S.-Haitian relations."--David Sheinin, Trent...

This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers,...

China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward...

The Latin Amnerican drug trade has become one of the major problems confronting the United States in the late twentieth century. The key dynamic of that trade is cocaine, which is primarily produced in the Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru...

The author attempts to redefine the problems that the individual in American society is facing. He posits that increasing social complexity through structural differentiation can result in greater mobilization of resources, increased capacity to pursue...

As regionalisation becomes an increasingly hot topic, the authors explain why regionalism has been most successful in Latin America and analyse current processes and opinions of possible future developments in the region, including the Caribbean, Central...

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s. Peberdy examines specific social, cultural, historical and political...

This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061763960Author John QuinonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 345g

Contemporary debates on the role of religion in American public life ignore the overlap between religion and race in the formation of American democratic traditions and more often than not imagine democracy within the terrain of John Rawls's political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743236379Author Carel Bailey GermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648651192Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom BooksWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807079232Author Warren BlumenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007457Author Katherine NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The orderly transfer of power from the white minority to the black majority in South Africa was something of a political miracle. The tasks facing the new government of Thabo Mbeki are formidable. If Mbeki can succeed in giving his country and the...

Fronteras No Mas examines the range of officials, non-government organizations, networks and remaining organizational vacuums that span the U.S. - Mexico border. Since NAFTA, more binational institutions and policies have emerged around the environment,...

This prizewinning reference work provides data on crime in 110 nations and 44 major cities, making it possible for the first time to examine the patterns and causes of violent crime on a cross-national basis. Winner of the 1985 Prize for Behavioral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000312Author William AdkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...