Gesundheit & Medizin

Durch die gläserne Tür

Temple Grandin

Eines der bedeutendsten Bücher zum Themenbereich Autismus. Das erste Buch, dass von einer Autistin geschrieben wurde und ihren Lebensweg unter dem Eindruck des Autismus wiedergibt. Der Ausgangspu...

Ich sehe die Welt wie ein frohes Tier

Temple Grandin

Alles begann im Internat für „verhaltensauffällige“ Hochbegabte, in das die rauflustige Autistin Temple Grandin kam, nachdem sie von ihrer alten Schule geflogen war. Während eines Ausflugs ...

Ich bin Autistin - aber ich zeige es nicht

Liane Holliday Willey. Vorwort Tony Attwood

Einfach ein großartiges Buch: Die Tochter erhält die Diagnose Asperger und die Mutter erkennt sich - endlich - in dieser Diagnose wieder. Sie beschreibt im Rückblick ihre Lebensgeschichte und r...

Pedagogía del amor y la felicidad

Alexander Ortiz Ocaña

El libro Pedagogía del amor y la felicidad, tiene el propósito de abrir un espacio de superación sobre el proceso formativo de niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes, ofreciéndote nuevos enfo...

Lose a Kilo a Week

What do your best friend's wedding, a beach holiday, and the coming of summer have in common? You got it. It's the need to knock off those extra kilos and get into your hottest avatar. And...

Communicating Biological Sciences

Recent scandals in the biosciences have highlighted the perils of communicating science leading many observers to ask questions about the pressures on scientists and the media to hype-up claims of...

Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities

The subject of gay and lesbian sexuality is perhaps the most vexed issue in the contemporary Christian Church. Many churches have been forced to confront the matter, both theologically and pastora...

Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World

Recent debates about national identity, belonging and community cohesion can appear to suggest that ethnicity is a static entity and that ethnic difference is a source of conflict in itself Ethni...

Contested Categories

Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doi...

Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. A combination of distinguishe...

Media, Policy and Interaction

Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importa...

End of Territoriality?

Dr Andreas J Obermaier

Through analyzing the implementation of a series of European Court of Justice rulings in the key member states of Germany, France and the UK, The End of Territoriality brings the high impact issue...

Coming to Terms with Chance

Professor Oscar H Gandy Jr

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of peo...

Aboriginal Family and the State

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recog...

Parenting After the Century of the Child

Bridging the gap between studies orientated around parenthood and those on the globalization of childhood, Parenting After the Century of the Child provides a timely intervention to the scholarshi...

Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality

Dr Gary A Berg

Drawing upon quantitative data gathered from the U.S. Census and U.S. Department of Education, as well as interviews with students from a variety of socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, Low-Inco...

Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia

Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia provides insights into the manner in which biomedical discourses are communicated and portrayed in Asia in light of the rapi...

Negotiating Political Identities

Globalization, European integration, and migration are challenging national identities and changing education across Europe. The nation-state no longer serves as the sole locus of civic participat...

Sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus

Wilhelm 'Gi' Baldamus (19081991) was one of the most distinctive voices in British sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. He made major contributions to both industrial soc...

Irregular Migration in Europe

Irregular Migration in Europe contributes to our knowledge of the scale and nature of the much discussed but under-researched phenomenon of irregular migration in Europe, whilst improving our unde...