Society & Social Sciences

This essential guide to comparative European politics provides the broadest range of coverage on Europe, illustrated via the widest range of exampl...

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these co...

This book outlines the key findings from the ADVOST project and other international projects that examine how educational practitioners have utilis...

This book seeks to provide a comparative assessment of the significance of ‘human factors’ in effective counter-terrorism.The phrase ‘human factors...

This book operationalises the new field—EmLearning—that integrates embodiment and grounded cognition perspectives with education using the 4E appro...

First published in 1950, A Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations presents a collection of documentary material detailing various aspects ...

First published in 1966, Political Systems provides an examination of political systems through a sociological approach. This comprehensive survey ...

First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the specific handling of literary forms. The author ex...

In a field dominated by the history and practices of Western states, Global Diplomacy expands the mainstream discourse on diplomacy to include non-...

Over the past three decades or so, the nonprofit, voluntary, or third sector has undergone a major transformation from a small cottage industry to ...

*** 'This powerful, speaking-truth-to-power book is an essential read for everybody who wants to stop feeling clueless and helpless about the impac...

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in the public an...

Business, Society and Global Governance is a thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Building Business–Government Relations: A Skills Approac...

This book is about how the rise of democracy has transformed economics over the past 150 years. As voting was expanded to the masses in the late 19...

This book addresses one of the most important issues in international relations – how wars are ended. The volume draws on the direct experience of ...

Britain’s two recent referenda - on Brexit (2016) and on Scottish independence (2014) - have raised in the public mind fundamental questions about ...

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. Thi...

In the wake of World War II, anatomist and anthropologist Mildred Trotter left the Midwest for a temporary post as the forensic anthropology expert...

Theatre Institutions in Crisisexamines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust resear...

Nation Branding: Concepts, Issues, Practice provides a theoretical framework, alongside insightful examples from the practice of nation banding, in...

Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling with IBM SPSS, Third Edition, demonstrates how to use the multilevel and longitudinal modeling techniques avai...

Twenty-first-century America isn't working the way it's supposed to. This book explains why. Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming inc...

Discover your purpose, honor your story, and explore who you want to be.Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out....

An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier po...

Amidst the vast literature on the parties and politics of revolutionary Russia and its near constant appropriation for presentist purposes over the...

In today's socially and politically divided climate, anger is on the rise-even boiling over into violence. Anger is a natural human emotion, but ch...

Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, appl...