Society & culture: general books

Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, the book documents a diverse portfolio of religious responses to HIV and...  Read More >>

This pioneering volume provides a fresh view of police reform as occurring from the bottom up rather than the top...  Read More >>

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From a human capital perspective, an ageing population represents resources to address societal needs; and the active...  Read More >>

Obesity is framed as a global pandemic. This book offers a critical contribution to studies of overweight, obesity...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary collection of twelve essays, Romanticism/Judaica explores the four major areas of intersection:...  Read More >>

This collection explores the complex dynamics of current global land grabbing from a broad agrarian political economy...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the confluence of a politician, a process, and a problem - Barack Obama, the 2008 US presidential...  Read More >>

In this book, leading thinkers and scholars in the field of race and ethnography explicate the complicated nature...  Read More >>

Racializing the Soldier offers an international history of the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development...  Read More >>

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This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond. This...  Read More >>

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There is a mutual dependence between poverty and academic achievement, creative pedagogies for low-income pupils,...  Read More >>

This book illustrates the multiple ways ‘the body’ both impacts culture and is simultaneously and seamlessly positioned...  Read More >>

Caste is a contested terrain in India’s society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in...  Read More >>

This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology,...  Read More >>

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This collection examines a key new development in the contemporary marketing landscape, the relationship between...  Read More >>

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Based on in-depth case-studies of curricular change processes at six colleges and universities across the United...  Read More >>

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This collection explores ways in which theories of space and place can be used in understanding processes of exclusion...  Read More >>

This collection provides a succinct and accessible resource for information concerning practicing in different pediatric...  Read More >>