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Self-help organizations and charities were the most numerous, but least-studied of pressure groups to emerge during perestroika . This book examines the social exclusion experienced before 1985 by non-working citizens, studies the pre-1985 disabled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292590Author Anna GuhlichFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism's original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil...

This radical, new book brings together the key concepts, issues and debates in critical and cultural theory today. Each chapter presents a self-contained analysis of each concept as well providing a range of discussion questions and further reading...

"Richard Maxwell Brown's brief study of 'violence and American values' is quite simply a tour de force of provocatie, well-conceived, and smoothly written historiography....rich with novel insights, new conceptualizations, and solid documentation...

In the last few decades the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. This account of these social movements include action in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada and...

The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Society provides a timely and far-reaching analysis of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333243268Author Robert BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 369Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 483g

Communists on Education and Culture, 1848-1948 is aimed at both a specialist and non-specialist readership. It provides a detailed, yet readable account of the attitudes of leading communists, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Gorky, Gramsci,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333386767Author Mark AbramsFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 626g

The year 2000 marks the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of Hitotsubashi University, one of Japan's most prestigious universities. This official history celebrates the origins and development of the university and its contribution both to Japan's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674864900Author Samuel K LothropFormat HardbackPage Count 507Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 912g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674499645Author Rufus Graves MatherFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 263g

"Philosophically challenging. . . . Hazelrigg's thesis seems to catch everyone short."--Steve Fuller, executive editor, Social Epistemology "A quality piece of work; the central problematic is clearly articulated and important; the...

In 1904 a new journal, Archiv Fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, was introduced in Germany. The journal, which included the writings of some of the foremost scholars of the day, as well as those who gained recognition and influence in later years,...

Fliegel overviews and summarizes research on the spread of innovations through rural populations. The volume begins with a look at the discovery of diffusion as a patterned process in the 1940s and examines the creation of the classical model to explain...

Currently, the research community lacks the capacity to provide accurate, up-to-date information about conditions and trends in rural areas. Bringing together some of the best known rural development researchers, this volume begins to build an...

Gibbs and Bankhead examine the history and current situation in California as it struggles to deal with the ethnic and racial change that will make it the first American state to have a non-white majority in the first decade of the 21st century. From...

This is the first comprehensive account of the development of consumer credit. Consumer credit is a vital force driving the development of our economic system. Rather than look at consumer credit solely as an economic phenomenon, Klein examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313208836Author Donald Stuart StrongFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Does the Information Age promise egalitarianism and democracy, or will it simply reinforce long-standing social and economic inequalities? This collection of essays analyzes the emerging role of African-Americans in post-industrial society from a variety...

This book offers a broad-based critical examination of the consequences-moral, psychological, sociological, educational, and economic-of increasing specialization in today's world. According to the author, we have now reached a stage where the education...

A vivid rendering of the educational, social, and physical environment of two elementary schools in contrasting socioeconomic settings, this book calls attention to the importance of place in human lives and learning. The author draws from systematic...

First serialized in 1914, Social Ethics attempts to convince readers that individualist ethics have failed to make the world a safe place for children, and that we cannot progress to a fully social ethics unless we understand the morality of collective...

The study of class structure is crucial to the understanding of society and social transformation, as these are based on class relations and class struggle. This work presents a class analysis approach to the study of society and social relations. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313214271Author Robert FisherFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In this welcome guide, sociologists who have successfully established consulting practices present practical examples of how to apply sociological knowledge and methodological procedures to real life situations. In addition to offering detailed...

This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish political culture. It also comprises a succinct overview of Turkey's most reaching reform process since Ataturk.Book InformationISBN...

Assembles leading theorists of a new paradigm of political theory, State Crimes Against Democracy , undertaking judicious and devoted hacking exposing the elusive nodes and circuitry that propagate elite dominance in world affairs, and what can be done...

The social role of intellectuals was a pervasive motif in Weber's thought, particularly in his works on religion and politics. Comprehensively examining and extending Weber's work on the subject, Sadri provides a new perspective on the intelligentsia and...

Medical Sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology. This book traces the intellectual and institutional evolution of the field in relation to antecedents of the past 2000 years and developments in American sociology and...

In this book, David Morgan surveys the enormous visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the late 19th and 20th centuries. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by...

From an opposition movement trade unions have become a recognised institution deeply rooted in our economic and political system. Trade union members' perception of their union, their motives for joining and participating or leaving the unions and also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837167787Author Trevor MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

When this volume was published in 1990, undocumented Mexican immigrants had become an important component of the US population. In this book the author analyzes the results of a unique survey conducted in Los Angeles County, where an estimated 44 percent...

Sociological theory has veered between an insistence on understanding human rights as a genuine universal morality and far more cynical portrayals of human rights as a veil of bourgeois capitalist enterprise. This book criticizes, adapts and combines...

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This is the first book to examine the processes of territorial federalization and decentralization of health systems in Europe drawing from an interdisciplinary economics, public policy and political science approach. It contains key theoretical and...

This book examines the international trends and associated developments in gender equality policy including corporate governance such as gender quotas. International comparative analysis is combined with detailed analysis of eight European countries with...

Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human rights in our global age.Book InformationISBN...