Society & Culture: General

Wolverine. Logan. Weapon X. By any name, Marvel Comic's savage, brooding antihero is, in his own words, the best at what he does--killing with g...

Our world is undergoing immense changes. Never before have the conditions of life changed so swiftly and enormously as they have changed for mankin...

As climate change transforms the landscape of the ice sheet in Greenland and future industries prepare to extract precious metals and petroleum, Je...

Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception explores recent crime drama film and television depictions of Arab and Muslim men in Australia. It examin...

These papyri provide the first secure information, in concrete detail, on the purposes and the effects of the imperial tax reform under Diocletian ...

An authoritative reference work for anyone interested in herbal medicine, this book provides unprecedented insight into Prophetic phytotherapy, a b...

Within this text, the contributors provide a historical perspective on the development of anthropology and sociology since their introduction to Ch...

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the psychodynamic theories of artistic creativity and the arts. Neither oversimplifying ...

One of the most significant medical and social initiatives of the twentieth century was the demolition of the traditional state hospitals that h...

Trenton, like the state of New Jersey, is often maligned these days, but there was a time when Trenton was the fiftieth largest city in the Unit...

Hindu Images in the Global Age explores changes in perception of Hindu icons in the United States where second and third generation Hindu Americans...