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From Larry Kramer’s New York to Roth’s Newark and Colla’s Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American co......more
How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigati......more
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The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where univers......more
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This book studies the impact of COVID-19 in South Asia. With case studies from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, the volu......more
Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and unc......more
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The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility another revolutionary collection of......more
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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
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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
End-of-life documentaries have proliferated in the 21st century as various organisations, institutions, journalists, ind......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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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
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
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Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 i......more
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This book addresses the need for policing scholarship to strengthen its empirical cumulative knowledge base by replicati......more
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Does the current celibate, semi-monastic, and all-male seminary formation contribute to the persistence of clerical sexu......more
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This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prison......more
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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
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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
This book addresses the most suggestive themes of transhumanism and critical posthumanism by placing them in dialogue wi......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
The radical novelty of modern society consists of the global autonomy and dynamics of communication systems such as the ......more
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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
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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
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
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Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to ......more
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
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How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime comp......more
This text explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Scotland, England and Australia, where laws once gave ......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 represents a valuable contribution to the history of the Socialist Second International and, more generally, o......more
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