Social Issues & Processes

In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a gl...

At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss,...

Neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell punctures the hype around psychedelic drugs while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinatin...

What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only biological kinships or does it extend to various social kinships, ...

This book argues that Linguistics, in common with other disciplines such as Anthropology and Sociology, has been shaped by colonization. It outline...

In todays globalised world, large-scale migration is the norm. A contributing factor to the successful settlement of migrants is the ability to acc...

Im in love with this book! It illuminates the forces that make parenting so difficult, and helps us develop better relationships with our kidsand o...

A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. The 1970s was a decade of s...

No longer saccharine sweet and dripping with sentimentality, cross-stitch was forever changed when Julie Jackson launched her brand Subversive Cros...

These gutsy women arent holding back! Each page of this daily desktop calendar features laugh-inducing quotes by the worlds most famous (and infamo...

Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. With this mesmerizing tale of one womans potent affliction, award-winning Finnish writer Laura Lindstedt ma...

We're all stuffocated. We have more stuff than we could ever need - but it's bad for the planet and it's making us stressed. It might even be killi...

When policymakers, communities or advocates make decisions and take actions, they do so with the purpose of achieving some desired goal. But someti...

Jack Hill was a pioneering Arkansas documentary filmmaker dedicated to sharing his states history with a wider public. Following a decade as an awa...

Wildlife Ethics A systematic account of the ethical issues related to wildlife management and conservation Wildlife Ethics is the first systematic,...

Climate Justice in India brings together a collective of academics, activists, and artists to paint a collage of action-oriented visions for a clim...

At a time when medicine is a highly sought-after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine what it was like for the pioneers. The story of how...

Winner of the 2024 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association's Section on Medical Sociology One out of...

Understand the practical and emotional impact of your symptoms and learn to organise every step of your health management. If youre dealing with a...

Survival and Witness at Europe's Border focuses on one of the most mediatized migrant disasters in Europe. On October 3, 2013, an overcrowded fishi...