Social Issues & Processes

This book is devoted to a theme of public health reaching out to communities of practice/engaging communities in new public health endeavours/commu...

Today''''s society is marked by a fundamental ambiguity: On the one hand we find the loss in old values and systems, in particular what is called s...

The ways we think about the world, about ourselves and our personal relations are largely determined by our cognitive schemes, cognitive styles. Th...

This book provides research on the influences, disparities and current issues of socioeconomic status (SES). Chapter One discusses socio-economic s...

This book presents and discusses important political and economic changes in North America. Topics discussed herein include security and prosperity...

The Social Security program pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members, and to family members of deceased workers. The ...

Family abduction is the most prevalent form of child abduction in the United States. Regardless of the abductor''''s motive, it is an illegal act t...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

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The Obama Administrations Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative is a U.S. international development program launched in 2010 that invests in food securi...

This book centers not only on the scourge of terrorism, a problem which concerns policy-makers, officials and governments worldwide, but dissects t...

Human trafficking is a subject of growing concern, both internationally and domestically. There are some difficulties of definition, as various dif...

Correctional agencies around the country are challenged by an increasingly transient workforce, exponential growth in technology, and continued bud...

In less than two decades transgender has gone from a term representing individuals and little used outside of specialist communities, to signifying...