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Offering a focus that is lacking (or not clearly evident) in most spirituality books, Dudley addresses specific ways of incorporating spirituality ...

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global nort...

Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines and Western nations, this bo...

This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation fro...

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture sh...

This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India....

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

This title was first published in 2001: Engaging contemporary discussion concerning the validity of mystical experiences of God, Jerome Gellman pre...

This title was first published in 2002: The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which affects numero...

This title was first published in 2000: Mainstream criminology has devoted little attention to minority perspectives in crime and violence. Crimino...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

For centuries, democracy and development have steered the imagination of governments, citizens, intelligentsia and policymakers alike. Democracy wi...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

First published in 1999, this book explores the ethnic dimension of democratic peace agenda in new democracies. The democratic peace proposition co...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

Published in 1999. British cross-cultural counselling practice issues are examined through a survey of the attitudes of white British Counsellors a...

Chinas commercial film industry can be used as a map to understand how class is interwoven into the imaginations that inform and influence social c...

This book traces the intellectual history of the interaction between feminists and Freudian thought, charting the essence of psychoanalytic theorie...

This book explores the intersectional aspects of caste and gender in India that contribute to the multiple marginalities and oppressions of lower c...

This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of inte...

In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinatingrange of forms from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from huma...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of...

During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at ...

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic'...

Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on int...

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international comm...

This book explains an open-ended theory of self that delineates 'masculine' and 'feminine' self-strategies on the basis of the Hegelian tradition o...

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of ...

Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high ...

Many studies of the Chinese middle class focus on defining it and viewing its significance for economic development and its potential for sociopoli...

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the roving colonialism of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies...

Why has Argentina suffered so much political and economic instability? How could Argentina, once one of the wealthiest countries in the world, fail...

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade...

This collection presents creative strategies and programs designed to address needs of families in the context of rural communities. Even before th...

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it?What Ev...

This title was first published in 2002: The trade union movement in twentieth-century Britain has been a cornerstone for societys marginalized memb...

This book demonstrates the broad range of economic, social, and political concerns they cover and evaluates contemporary patterns and future needs ...

Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, so...

This annotated bibliography evaluates the traditional reference aids available in most college libraries in terms of their usefulness in women's st...

This title was first published in 2000: This book provides an empirical account of social control and deviance in a South Asian community in Scotla...

This title was first published in 2000. Patterns of racism and disadvantage vary throughout Britain, yet most British research continues to focus ...

The French Republic does not discriminate or differentiate between individuals in terms of gender, difference or ethnicity. However recent legislat...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Against the background of an increasingly diverse British society, this book traces the evolution of British identity in the twentieth century. Deb...

This title was first published in 2001: Featuring original research concerning young African-Caribbeans in Birmingham, this book addresses complex ...