Society & Social Sciences books

This book brings small places to the main stage in an exploration of the nature of immigration in rural areas and...  Read More >>

The concept of sexual addiction has gained increasing recognition in the academic and healthcare communities since...  Read More >>

Human beings are competitive. We want to know who is the strongest, who is the richest, and who is the cleverest...  Read More >>

Affect and emotion have come to dominate discourse on social and political life in the mobile and networked societies...  Read More >>

`Degrowth', a type of `postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling...  Read More >>

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at...  Read More >>

Being a Man is a formative work which reveals the myriad and complex negotiations for constructions of masculine...  Read More >>

Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the most important...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation, functioning, and impact of the Bolivarian Alliance...  Read More >>

This handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and theoretical issues within the emerging field...  Read More >>

How has `agency' - or the ability to define and act upon one's goals - contributed to global long-term economic...  Read More >>

The Alevis are a significant minority in Turkey, and now also in the countries of Western Europe. Over the past...  Read More >>

Five Steps to Strengthen Ethics in Organizations and Individuals draws on research and history to present effective...  Read More >>

Through its themes of subjectivity, surgery, and self-stylization this book critically examines the cultural constraints...  Read More >>

This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by...  Read More >>

Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years,...  Read More >>

How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking...  Read More >>

Within the UK and Europe, government legislation and policies concerned with demography have asserted a paradigmatic...  Read More >>

In her #1 New York Times bestsellers, Brown has encouraged listeners to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the...  Read More >>

Fallout is the memoir of one woman's journey from ignorance of the reports of physical, emotional and sexual abuse...  Read More >>

A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of...  Read More >>

A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of...  Read More >>

This is a collection of poems. The work published here is of a reflective and observational nature. These poems...  Read More >>

Born in a farmhouse in the Texas Hill Country, Lyndon Baines Johnson brought a western sensibility to the White...  Read More >>

This report, which provides a systematic review of the evidence supporting summer programs and descriptions of evidence-based...  Read More >>