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Politics, Education and Social Change

The authors analyse macro-level political decisions across various societies as well as individual actions and experiences to advocate fo...

Between Us - Healing Ourselves and Changing the World Through Sociology

"This heartfelt collection is a testament to sociology's power to heal people and transform societies. The world is a tough place right n...

Radical Politics - On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation

Offering a new reading of Antonio Gramsci's political theory, Radical Politics argues that hegemony is a process of differentiation in wh...

Corporate Control of White-Collar Crime - A Bottom-Up Approach to Executive Deviance

Traditionally, control in organizations is concerned with top-down approaches, where executives attempt to direct employees¿ performance....

Ireland: The Matter of Monuments

In this collection, art historians, archaeologists, historians and heritage practitioners explore Irish public monuments from the medieva...

Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema

The first book on films that screen Parisiennes as city women, as urban residents, or as women fighting to find a place in the city. An e...

Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise

Counter-Cartographies proposes new methods of cultural and literary analysis that read against the mapped spectacle of a hyper-planned an...

Crooks and Squares

'Crooks and Squares' is a study of crime as a way of life. By interviewing drug addicts and property criminals, Malin Akerstrom presents ...

Data Science in Social Research

The emergent field of CSS is growing in scientific importance and public interest. There is no doubt that the field of social science nee...

Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Third Edition

Techniques for interview and interrogation have become even more sophisticated and complex in recent years. With all chapters revised and...

Policing Black Bodies in the 21st Century

In Ferguson and many other American communities, social media has raised the visibility of police actions, leading to protests and social...

Visual Methods for Digital Research - An Introduction

Over the last decade, images have become a key feature of digital culture; at the same time, they have made a mark on a wide range of res...

Medico-Legal Death Investigation: From Crime Scene to Courtroom - A Detective's Companion

Written in clear and simple language, this primer/handbook examines and explains¿from the perspective of a criminal investigator¿the law ...

Families Worldwide - Contexts and Issues

The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto

The rise of the far-right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police violence have challenged the dominant comp...

Governing the Young Poor in Switzerland - How the Moral Foundations of Work Ethics Guide Social Assistance Discourse

The present research deals with the policies directed at young adults on social assistance without vocational training (YAS). Drawing on ...

America After Vietnam - From Anguish to Healing

First published in 1997, this volume explores the twenty years it has taken the United States to decide where Vietnam belongs on its ment...

Senses of the Future - Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today

The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the f...

Kin - Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen

'A beautiful, familiar and comforting cookbook ... I can't wait to buy it for everyone I know' Candice Carty-Williams'An outstanding gem ...

Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World - Systems, Schools and Society

Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting within school ed...

De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance

The De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance explores the difficult and challenging issues confronting society and the ...

The Internal Review of Corporate Deviance - Managing Crisis, Conformance, and Public Trust

In this pioneering monograph based upon extensive primary research, Gottschalk and Hamerton explore and evaluate the developing global fi...

Trust in German-Chinese Business Cooperation - Insights and Lessons to be Learned

What makes international joint ventures successful? Among other key success factors such as strategic fit, material and political-relatio...

Peace in the Name of Allah - Islamic Discourses on Treaties with Israel

From Anwar al-Sadat's dramatic gambit in 1977 to the surprising declaration of the Abraham Accords in 2020, making peace with Israel was ...

Gardens of God - A Paradigm Shift in Faith

This book deals with the theme of Kingdom of God in religion, politics and spirituality and strives to rethink and reconstitute it is as ...

The End of Respectability - Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation

"Blending social history, bracing analysis, and autobiography in essays that investigate the hard realities and measured hopes of African...

Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History

This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) on natural history in the first half of ...

Gulf Women's Lives - Voice, Space, Place

This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women's narratives offers ...

Brexit, Tweeted - Polarization and Social Media Manipulation

Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, this book presents an extensive analysis of social medi...

Cross-Cultural Communication of Chinese Brands

This book presents theoretical insights into key aspects of Chinese brand cross-cultural communication, such as psychological distance, i...

Sri Owen Indonesian Food - The New Edition by Award-Winning Food Writer, with 20 New Recipes on Modern Cooking

A beautiful new edition of seminal work Sri Owen¿s Indonesian Food with 20 new recipes to reflect the updates in Indonesian cuisine over ...

Mobile Media Methods

Mobile media such as smartphones, apps, and social media are an integral part of everyday life, used by billions of people around the wor...

A History of Books in Ancient China

This book presents a study of the history of ancient Chinese books, not only highlighting specific aspects of the ontology of book histor...

Sensibilities, Digital World and Emotion on Trans-Globalization Era

This book offers a reflection about the state of politics of sensibilities on a planetary scale today; the authors propose a space that i...

Conflicting Images - Histories of War Photography in the News

Unlike most historical examinations of war reporting which centre the evolving role of the war correspondent, Conflicting Images focuses ...

Star Wars Icons: Darth Vader

Unmask one of the most memorable villains of all time and discover the incredible story behind the creation and the legacy of the galaxy’...

AI In Business and Economics

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have generated intense interest and debate about their potential to reshape i...

Inside The World Of Comic Books

From gutter business to art form, an engaging, provocative look at all things comic book.

Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia - Rediscovering the Invisible Believers

This book presents gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the sociocultural foundations of Buddhism. It highlights the multi...

The Great Dumpling Debate - Definitions, Science, History and Local Recipes from Around the World

This is the definitive global guide about dumplings for dumpling lovers (is there anyone who's not?).It is a scientifically ironic travel...

Media Compass - A Companion to International Media Landscapes

An extensive and inclusive overview of media landscapes, combining country-specific summaries and cross-cutting examinations of the world...

The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 3 - Mage & Alchemist

This is the 3rd volume of an in-depth examination of the alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala of Paracelsian doctor Heinrich Khunrath of ...

The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 2 - Theosopher & Christian Cabalist

This is the 2nd volume of an in-depth examination of the alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala of Paracelsian doctor Heinrich Khunrath of ...

Digital Touch

Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embed...

Digital Touch

Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embed...

Mobile Media Methods

Mobile media such as smartphones, apps, and social media are an integral part of everyday life, used by billions of people around the wor...

The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China

The notion of the 'conformed body', defined as a unique experience since the People's Republic of China, has formed a particular energy t...

Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region

Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Societies in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region examines social networks, processes of literarisation,...

At Home with the Poor - Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, C.1650-1850

This fascinating book takes us inside the homes of the forgotten poor in the period before, during and after the industrial revolution. U...

The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 4 - Epilogue: Reception (from Rosicrucians to Modern Occulture) & Bibliography

This is the 4th volume of an in-depth examination of the alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala of Paracelsian doctor Heinrich Khunrath of ...

Nigeria National Home-Grown School Feeding Program Sourcebook

"School feeding is the world's most extensive safety net, with nearly one in two primary school children receiving a subsidized meal ever...

"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"

"On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation

This handbook fills a substantial gap in the international academic literature on animation at large, on music studies, and on the aural ...

Smart Urban Safety and Security - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This open access book explores the use of urban technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies them...

The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory (4 Vols.)

This set of four volumes provides an in-depth examination of the alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala of Paracelsian doctor Heinrich Khun...

The Dynamics of Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence - Comparing Impact Across Global Regions

Due to the international importance attached to the reporting of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) over the last t...

Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought - From the Republican Era Until the 'Chinese School of International Relations'

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of t...

Healthy Societies - Policy, Practice and Obstacles

Can society be healthy, and how? Is Britain a 'healthy society' in the 21st century? When people ponder health, they usually consider the...

The World of the Japanese Mind - Conformity and Seken

This book investigates the source from which the pressure to conform arises in Japanese society. Even though the contemporary Japanese wo...

Today's White Collar Crime - Legal, Investigative, and Theoretical Perspectives

The only text available that presents white-collar crime to undergraduates from both theoretical and practical / professional perspective...