Why is the Muslim Brotherhood the most successful social movement in contemporary Egypt and why is Salafism such a stron......more

The studies included in this edited volume explore discourses surrounding the aging population, those who assist them, t......more

"We Live Here! is a graphic novel biography of the members of the local activist group Detroit Eviction Defense combatti......more

Offering an overview on the relationships between smell and atmospheres as proposed by philosophy and the humanities, th......more

Cultural studies do not represent a historicist approach focused on the origins and development of particular social and......more

Increased migration is a global phenomenon associated with regional instabilities and insecurities, including long-term ......more

Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be h......more

In health and medicine, the imagination of what the future holds is an essential element in propelling people into actio......more

This book is based on findings from the Horizon2020 Project "Participation. Analysing and Preventing Extremism via Parti......more

From Larry Kramer’s New York to Roth’s Newark and Colla’s Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American co......more

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Assessing issues related to the Orthodox Church from an academic, secular point of view is a sensitive matter. However, ......more

How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigati......more

Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and unc......more

Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the i......more

This book studies the impact of COVID-19 in South Asia. With case studies from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, the volu......more

The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where univers......more

Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal jus......more

Convict criminology (CC) is based on the belief that the convict’s voice has been traditionally ignored or marginalized ......more

Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known wo......more

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility another revolutionary collection of......more

Stories and legends of Denmark’s land, sea and people Read about the history, the landscapes stories and the fairy tales......more

A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights. "Whoever wa......more

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practic......more

A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, written with......more

In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wi......more

In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wi......more

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As the......more

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As the......more

"Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting the......more

"Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting the......more

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Ra......more

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Ra......more

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Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal jus......more

Faith Development Interviews offer great insight into people’s ways of (non-)religious meaning-making, and of looking at......more

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as ......more

Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, Second Edition, combines insights from sociology, criminology, psychology, and cybersec......more

Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, Second Edition, combines insights from sociology, criminology, psychology, and cybersec......more

"In 2000, Seattle became the first city in the United States to grant permanent legal status to a peer-operated tent enc......more

This book addresses the need for policing scholarship to strengthen its empirical cumulative knowledge base by replicati......more

This book is an enquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton-producing Garo in the colonial archive a......more

Does the current celibate, semi-monastic, and all-male seminary formation contribute to the persistence of clerical sexu......more

This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prison......more

Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of tra......more

This book explores the relationship between COVID-19 and AIDS. It considers both how the earlier HIV pandemic informed o......more

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while......more

Our love of life is designed into us. We naturally understand death as the opposite of life, but we are taught to accept......more

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Adulthood: An Introduction offers a thorough foundation to learn, consolidate, and apply developmental concepts and curr......more

Adulthood: An Introduction offers a thorough foundation to learn, consolidate, and apply developmental concepts and curr......more

Leaving the Hills by Tony Curtis is a collection full of stories from everywhere by a great Welsh poet at his best. From......more

Blends practitioner-focused and culturally responsive interventions to provide an innovative approach to learning With t......more

Praise for earlier editions: I have been using this textbook as a required reading for my research class since 2004 beca......more

This book documents the development of early intervention systems (EISs) internationally, and provides evidence for and ......more

Fraga "... traces America’s history ... from the days of Bleeding Kansas to the long tradition of political assassinatio......more

In an era of heightened global interconnectedness and cultural exchange, social cleavages and dynamics of alienation bec......more

Communication and interpersonal skills are an essential part of practice. Taking a skills-based approach, this book look......more

Communication and interpersonal skills are an essential part of practice. Taking a skills-based approach, this book look......more

As a practising social worker, you will need to be able to make sound judgments in complex contexts and when you are und......more

Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by hu......more

Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by hu......more

What is happening when we mistake one thing for another? Disorientations and double takes are a key part of the lived ex......more

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Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that Americ......more

Captain Philip Thicknesse (1719 - 23 November 1792) was an English author, eccentric, and friend of the artist Thomas Ga......more

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett KCVO PC (Ire) JP DL FRS (24 October 1854 - 26 March 1932), was an Anglo-Irish agricultural re......more

"Teaches all about Personal Beauty. Every woman desires to be beautiful, and every woman may enhance her charms and be l......more

How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime comp......more

​Taking Place: Environment and Place in Literature and Art explores how works of literature and art help us to rethink t......more

Against a backdrop of continually growing global Islamophobia, this handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary......more

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This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy.......more

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