Sozialwissenschaften

Watermelon Days and Firefly Nights

Annette Smith

The Replication of Violence

Suman Gupta

An immense amount of media space has been devoted to the catastrophic terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. George Bush was quick to declare a 'war on terrorism' that may engulf ma...

Punishment and Civilization

John Pratt

Recognition and Difference

Counselling in Schools

Chris Brace

Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

James Waller

Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. In Becoming Evil, social psyc...

Social Movements

Social Movements

Senior citizenship?

Louise Ackers / Peter Dwyer

This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and exp...

Handbook on Firesetting in Children and Youth

This text reference provides state-of-the-art information on juvenile firesetters and reviews the current research on youthful firesetters and arsonists. The work illustrates methods of fire scene...

Measuring the Non Observed Economy: A Handbook

Applied Latent Class Analysis

New Frontiers in Socialization

New Frontiers in Socialization

Human Population Dynamics

Explaining Human Origins

Wiktor Stoczkowski

Wiktor Stoczkowski, a palaeo-anthropologist, argues that the theories of human origins developed by archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the early nineteenth century to the present day...

Word as Scalpel A History of Medical Sociology

BLOOM SAMUEL W

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 ...

Ain't I a Beauty Queen?

Maxine Leeds Craig

Ain't I a Beauty Queen?

Maxine Leeds Craig

Race, Nature and Culture

Peter Wade

Since the controversial scientific race theories of the 1930s, anthropologists have generally avoided directly addressing the issue of race, viewing it as a social construct. Challenging this trad...

Logic of the History of Ideas

Mark Bevir