Social Issues & Processes

This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money. According to...

Patterns of migration for the purpose of religious mission are an unexamined dimension of the immigration narrative. Catholic sisters from many cou...

Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities...

Ted Shawn (1891-1972), is the self-proclaimed Father of American Dance who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. I...

Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not...

Location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar and increasingly significant parts of our everyday mobile-mediated experie...

Forget the old concept of the 9-5. In a changing world, companies around the globe are redesigning the working week to increase efficiency, health,...

'Remarkable . . . grips with the force of a thriller' Robert Macfarlane'The most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Priz...

'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesThe We...

________________'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out,...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each...

Brings together the analysis of older, mostly local welfare policies (including their legal framings and their change over time) with the history o...

What will the ethnic, racial and cultural face of the United States look like in the upcoming decades, and how will the American population adapt t...

Government sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood, forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches--all of these policies h...

Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a singl...

Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspect...

Media pundits, politicians, and the public are often skeptical or ambivalent about granting asylum. They fear that asylum-seekers will impose econo...

For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the s...

ONE OF HAY FESTIVAL'S 100 BEST BOOKS WRITTEN BY WOMEN IN THE LAST 100 YEARS. Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of An...