Author: Kenneth A. Loparo

Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts o...

Knowing what deep participation is, and how it works, can make a critical difference in solving 21st century economic, political, and social proble...

Are young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to re...

Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by t...

Project sponsors in Europe are facing more and more difficulty when acquiring conventional long-term bank loans for infrastructure projects. The re...

Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from ...

This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of Fra...

Diseases do not recognize national borders, and as we are gradually learning, failure to govern health effectively at a global level profoundly aff...

This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about...

How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffre...

This book presents a thorough evaluation of Michal Kalecki's theory of the capitalist economy. It provides readers with a complete view of Kalecki'...

Exploring the interlinkages of political parties, religiosity, and women's leadership and nominations to public office, this book argues that as pa...

Disintegrated or distributed innovation, collaborative innovation, collective invention, collegial innovation, free innovation, open knowledge disc...

This book examines the migration, integration and transnational activity of overseas Americans American migrants in France, Germany and the UK. I...

This book examines contemporary relations between ethnic majority and ethnic minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, an...

Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance is the first monograph to provide an in-depth study of the implications of Deleuze's p...

With almost 6,300 commercial banks, significantly more than in any other country, the world of US banking is unique, fascinating, and always in flu...

Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer...

Banking Regulation in China provides an in-depth analysis of the country's contemporary banking regulatory system, focusing on regulation in practi...

This book lays out the foundation of a privacy doctrine suitable to the cyber age. It limits the volume, sensitivity, and secondary analysis that c...

Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance is the first monograph to provide an in-depth study of the implications of Deleuze's p...