Society & Social Sciences

The business models of traditional media are experiencing a profound crisis. One of the core issues of this crisis is the increasing breakdown of t...

Focusing on different forms of agency in North Ambrym social life, the author demonstrates the potency of outsiders at different times and in dif...

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume offers an overview of the role of writers, intellectuals, citizens, and the churches both befor...

Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solo...

This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare, an accurate portrayal of welfare recipients and an understanding of the diverse character...

An example introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on examples from Latin America, Africa and Asia to analy...

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous cliché: the theoretical a...

Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from ...

Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) has gained national momentum. The authors first present a national scene of QRIS and then use Children’s S...

The Himalaya, which is a great natural frontier for India, symbolises India’s spiritual and national consciousness. The Himalayan region displays w...

In the context of renewed global interest in the development of vocational skills, policy makers in many countries as well as representatives of te...

This book examines what happens when consumption – originally based on ethical issues – becomes a sort of religious behaviour which excludes possib...

Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – thi...

This bibliography lists the most important works in sociology published in 1990. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection pro...

Abram to Abraham explores the Abraham saga (11:27-22:24) through a literary lens, following the legendary figure of Abraham as he navigates the ard...

Raymond Charles Barker was once told by a friend, “As I listen to you lecture I do not have a sense of the Presence of God, because you are always ...

Stamps as Witnesses of History is not a book about the history of stamps as such. It is a book about how stamp issues since Rowland Hill invented t...

First Published in 1992. `Between the wars' was the great age of the cartoon character. The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Popeye, and Donald Duck wer...

Peter Raina’s magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the d...