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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755404Author Special Operations Research OfficeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186101Author George H ChaseFormat HardbackPage Count 77Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674432598Author Irwin T SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 721g

Ilan Stavans has amassed a collection of cutting-edge articles that inform readers about how Latinos navigate both the mainstream medical arena and culturally specific healing traditions. This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming...

An account of the changes in Jewish habits that suburban living has effected, and, to some extent, the changes in suburban attitudes that Jewish residents have helped to bring about.Book InformationISBN 9780837170886Author Albert-Isaac GordonFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837169583Author W. Lloyd WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The book is unique in two distinct ways. First, it focuses on improving quality of life in contrast to other books that have tended to focus more on its conceptualization and assessment. Second, it deals with improving quality of life in a variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860540601Author Barry C. BurnhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Attempts to manage natural resources through collaboration rather than competition, by agreements rather than conflict, have become the touchstone for many who see these efforts as the harbinger of global sustainable development. The received wisdom...

The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure flexible employment working for the world market. The feminisation of the labour...

Researchers have had to become more sensitive to the policy implications of their work. At the same time, managers require a sound and scientific basis for policy making. This text examines the developing area of the use of social science research and...

The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier between the disciplines. This book examines the traffic across this frontier and in particular, what might be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333342275Author Gordon R FoxallFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 215g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333243305Author A. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 409g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674180918Author Thomas A MetzgerFormat HardbackPage Count 479Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 848g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195022452Author Leslie Howard OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 262g

The authors of this volume provide a timely collection of articles which examine the emerging myths and theories surrounding the study of chaos and complexity. In the second part methodological matters are considered. Finally, conceptual models and...

In Activists Speak Out, a group of fifteen American activists speak candidly about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary - in the areas of civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, the environment, women's issues, health,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292712Author Mechtild OechsleFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Soviet youth behaviour and contemporary problems are discussed, including culture and pop music, gangs and drug addicts, delinquents and deviants, providing an insight into their life and attitudes, and an opportunity to understand youth problems in...

We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with...

Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline, first published in 1991, provides a rare glimpse of the environmental justice movement as it plays out in four landmark struggles at the end of the twentieth century. The book describes the stories of...

Old age is a part of the lifecycle about which there are numerous myths and stereotypes. To present an overstatement of commonly held beliefs, the old are portrayed as dependent individuals, characterized by a lack of social autonomy, unloved and...

Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures? The answer is not to be found in globalization,...

The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity. It argues that national days are contested and manipulated, as well as subject to political, cultural and social pressure. It brings together some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333197202Author T. BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 571g

Anthony Giddens is one of the world's best known sociologists. Since becoming director of the London School of Economics in 1997, he has also played a leading public role, not least as 'Blair's guru' and author of The Third Way . This book opens up for...

Transcending recent attempts to pigeonhole 'the information revolution', this book shows how the paradoxical aspects of new media and the Internet (is it masculine or feminine? Does it mean peace or war?) are the peculiarly intense expression of the...

In the setting of twenty-first century globalization this volume focuses on emerging societies, rather than emerging markets or powers. Adopting a sociological perspective, each chapter focuses on development and social inequality in emerging societies,...

Teenage pregnancy is a worldwide problem that accompanies the initiation of sexual activity at increasingly younger ages. This unique reference resource provides students with cross-cultural comparisons of the issues associated with teenage pregnancy...

People's reactions to critical life events is a topic that has stimulated basic as well as applied research by psychologists from a number of different subdisciplines. In this unique work, Marita Inglehart synthesizes previous research in the field and...

Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from a central discipline of the social sciences to an ideological outpost of political extremism. As a result, the field is in crisis. Some departments have been shut down, others cut back, research...

This book examines the lives and careers of four American women-Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor-who played decisive roles in early twentieth-century reform crusades. Breckinridge and Abbott used their...

It is quite common to reflect on what startles you. In the most diverse social contexts and cultures, the inescapable physiology of the reflex both shapes the experience of startle and biases the social usage to which the reflex is put. This book...

The distinction between understanding sight as a natural faculty - vision - and understanding it as an historical and social construct - visuality - has had significant impact in the visual arts. Not so in social theory where, notwithstanding the efforts...

Survey research is one of the most widely used research methodologies across the social and behavioral sciences. Two trends that have had a major impact on the development of survey methods over the last decade are (1) the application of techniques and...

The figure of the stranger is in serious need of revision, as is our understanding of the society against which the stranger is projected. Under conditions of globalization, inside/outside markers have been eroded and conventional indicators of 'we-ness'...

Today Capitalism is generally accepted as the only viable socioeconomic system in spite of the stress, moral decay, drug abuse, and crime it fosters. Peeters shows that, before entering the present Materialistic Phase, Western society went through two...

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not...