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

Designed to be strong in research and case studies yet relatively compact, books in the Essentials of Psychology and Hea......more

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The impact of the passage of war refugees on the lives and minds of local residents and officials is the subject of this......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

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

Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore includ......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

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

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

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

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​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

This book represents a valuable contribution to the history of the Socialist Second International and, more generally, o......more

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

Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound way......more

The descent of working class movements that began with neoliberal globalization is nearing completion. However, the asce......more

How do you be a gentle parent and still set boundaries? How do you remain calm and prepare your child to face the real w......more

This book reveals how decisions regarding where to migrate are made, what factors are considered, how these change over ......more

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily......more

Social Geographies: The Basics introduces what social geography is, and what it might be. It outlines the key contours o......more

"Interrupting our political orthodoxies and engaging an alternative origin story of the modern carceral state, Jump atte......more

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city Newburgh is a small postin......more

"Funny and informative, Jade effortlessly hits the sweet spot between silly and sincere to deliver a delightful treat de......more

No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Cr......more

Most agricultural production is of commodity or undifferentiated products. Producers suffer from a roller-coaster ride o......more

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. Th......more

This book explores innovative approaches to using and operating within and around both criminal law and civil law in the......more

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Mentorship/Methodology brings together emerging and established scholars to consider the relationship between mentoring ......more

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A heterodox compendium of "beasts of waste," playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animals. W......more

A heterodox compendium of "beasts of waste," playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animals. W......more

This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by b......more

This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the......more

The book by the well-known German party researcher Elmar Wiesendahl presents the development, theoretical perspectives, ......more

Democracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucrat......more

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex......more

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodi......more

Editors Michael B. Buchholz and Aleksandar Dimitrijevic’ are joined by Ana Altaras Dimitrijevic’, Uta Blohm, Roger Frie,......more

This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial perio......more

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This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex sto......more

In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped to be sh......more

People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crime......more

A meditation on the meaning of "liberty" throughout history This critical anthology presents a collection of essays from......more

In 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal app......more

India has a long-standing cultural and societal affinity with gold and gold jewellery. Gold metaphorically represents th......more

This book presents contributions from a multidisciplinary team of researchers who analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pa......more

In the vein of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia and Martha Gellhorn’s The View from the Ground, a remarkable work of ......more

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from......more

Today over 400,000 Chinese live in Britain, many more attend British universities, and an increasing number visit Britai......more

This innovative text introduces and illustrates case study methodology for nursing research by exploring how it can be u......more

Roman religion was certainly a contract with the Gods, offering devotion and the blood sacrifices which ’nourished’ them......more

Minorities in the Open Society (1986) challenges optimistic assumptions regarding race relations in western nations, nam......more

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children o......more

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Pales......more

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the ......more

Immigration in Post-War France (1987) presents a collection of articles, illustrations and other data, covering everythi......more

The Development of British Immigration Law (1986) examines the policies and laws of immigration law in the UK. It demons......more

Asia’s Population Problems (1967) features papers written by specialists - demographers, economists and sociologists - e......more

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with dema......more

Jamaican Migrant (1965) is the honest and moving recollection of a Jamaican cabinet-maker who emigrated to a new life in......more