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Governing the Young Poor in Switzerland - How the Moral Foundations of Work Ethics Guide Social Assistance Discourse

The present research deals with the policies directed at young adults on social assistance without vocational training (YAS). Drawing on ...

Vision, Race, and Modernity - A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World

Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the rol...

Flesh and Blood - Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence

Sociologists and criminologists have long known that there is a relationship between masculinity and crime. Indeed, gender has been advan...

Women's Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond

Despite women's presence in migration streams since the mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a significantly...

The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values

A wide-ranging investigation into the concept of the self as different religions contributed to our evolving sense of it, following ideas...

Influence of Russian Activities - Middle-East Europe, the Visegrad Group Countries and Ukraine

This volume is the result of the work of scientists from several scientific disciplines who used various methods and forecasting techniqu...

The Hippie Trip

The Words and Music of Melissa Etheridge

For a quarter century, Melissa Etheridge has been one of the most iconic and prolific female rock musicians. This book critically examine...

Doing Data Science in R - An Introduction for Social Scientists

This approachable introduction to doing data science in R provides step-by-step advice on using data science tools and statistical method...

Spirit Beings in European Folklore 3 - 255 descriptions - Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Georgia, Turkish regions, Roma-culture

Compendium 3 of the Spirit Beings in European Folklore-series offers an overview of the mysterious, sometimes beautiful and often shadowy...

Misleading Trajectories - Integration Policies for Young Adults in Europe?

It is commonly acknowledged that the risk of social exclusion has increased over the last few decades and that young people in particular...

Library Anxiety - Theory, Research, and Applications

The authors provide us with the first in depth look at the origins and subsequent evolution of this fascinating field of study. Beginning...

How to Change the World - Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. Bornstein profiles nine of these driven, creat...

Solving 9-11 - The Deception That Changed the World

An independent analysis of the events of September 11, 2001. Includes historical and geo-political background and examines the motivation...

Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times

Marvin Harris is arguably the most influential, prolific anthropological theorist of our time. This book brings together many of the stra...

Practicing Archaeology - An Introduction to Cultural Resources Archaeology

This book is an excellent reference tool for consulting firms, contractors, graduate students, and others who need to know the nuts and b...

The Jolliest Bunch - Unhinged Holiday Stories

"For many families, the holiday season is--in a word--unhinged. In no family is that more true than in Danny Pellegrino's, beloved podcas...

More. Numbers. Every. Day. - How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives - And Why It's Time to Set Ourselves Free

Two quirky economists explain how a 'numberdemic' is taking over lives - and what we can do about it

What Would the Aunties Say? - A brown girl's guide to being yourself and living your best life

In this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of "the brow...

Faces around the World - A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social...

Supervision - On Motherhood and Surveillance

A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood. The tracking o...

The Royal Agricultural Sociey of Natal, 1984-2021

The Royal Agricultural Sociey of Natal (RAS) is one of KwaZulu-Natal's oldest and best-known institutitions. This volume provides a detai...

The Wake of the Whale - Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic

Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt w...

Improving Survey Questions - Design and Evaluation

What is a good question? Although there are several potential sources for error in survey data, the validity of surveys is dependent upon...

Long Live the Queen - 23 Rules for Living from Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch

For the first time, step behind palace doors to unlock the little-known secrets behind the Queen's remarkable self-preservation and conti...

Technology's Child - Digital Media's Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up

"Davis addresses the "screen time" debate by recognizing that children's experiences of technology and social relationships are qualitati...

Happiness - Ten Years of n+1

The first anthology of America's foremost intellectual magazine. n+1 appeared in the fall of 2004, the brainchild of a group of writers w...

Geographical Information Systems in Urban Archaeology and Urban Planning - A case study of a modern Greek city, built on top of an ancient city

The book focuses on the implications of discovering archaeological layers during construction works in modern cities for both urban archa...

Remo - The Autobiography of Remo Fernandes

"Remo: a soundtrack for the autobiography": pages 483-485.

Funerals in Africa - Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West dea...

Blame it on the Gender - Identities and transgressions in Antiquity

Blame it on the Gender offers a multidisciplinary approach to gender studies in Antiquity, containing contributions by international scho...

Japanese Horror Culture - Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games

Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into th...

13th International Council of Archaeozoology Conference, 2018 - Archaeological, biological and historical approaches in archaeozoological research

This volume collects 10 papers presented at the 13th ICAZ International conference comprising of research from wide-ranging geographical ...

Heroines - Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History

The idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery....

The Limbic System

107 with treatments that affect the arousal of the animals is also implied on the basis of the behavioral changes induced in the lesioned...

Power Through Discourse

This volume represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and behavior in both formal public negotiation, as well as ...

Digital Transformations in the Challenge of Activity and Work - Understanding and Supporting Technological Changes

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES AND HUMAN RESOURCES SET Coordinated by Patrick Gilbert The accelerating pace of technological change (AI, cobots, i...

"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"

"On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project ...

Jennifer Lopez - A Biography

One of Hollywood's first openly Latin stars, Jennifer Lopez has held fast to her New York Bronx roots, while rising above them to become ...

Artifak - Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around va...

Experimental Collaborations - Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into...

Seafood Journey - Tastes and Tales From Scotland

Scotland has some of the best seafood in the world, so we why don't we eat more of it? Why don't we highlight the bounty of our seas and ...

African Political Systems

One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a...

Jukeboxes - An American Social History

This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s up to ...

The Politics of Fandom - Conflicts That Divide Communities

Fandom has been celebrated both as a harmonious, tolerant space and as apolitical and detached from reality. Yet fandom is neither harmon...

Darjeeling - In Search of People's History of the Hills

The present volume tries to fill the gap of the missing voices of the people of the Darjeeling hills and their cultures through re-writin...

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology - Methodological Innovation and Social Benefit

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology advances the field of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) and opens up...

Proverbs - A Handbook

Proverbs offer a concise record of folk wisdom and have appeared in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture for centuries. W...

Eating Together - Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of "public" eating in Malaysia and S...

Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure - A Handbook

Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imaginatio...

The Religious Crisis of the 1960s

The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change. In the Christian churches it was a time of innovation, from the 'new theology' and '...

Apocalypse Ready - The manual of manuals; a century of panic prevention

An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn ...

Marketing Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe

This title was first published in 2001. Successful international marketing requires the development and implementation of marketing strat...

Digital Death - Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age

This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to ...

The Book of Halloween

The Book of Halloween (1919) gives the reader an account of the origin and history of Halloween and how it absorbed customs belonging to ...

Atlantis and Lemuria

So tickt Deutschland / How Germany Ticks

Deutschland und Europa stecken in einer Zeiten-Wende. Von Krieg und Klimawandel über Homeoffice und Handelspolitik bis hin zu Flüchtlings...

Seduction - Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy

Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can culti...

Betting on Famine - Why the World Still Goes Hungry

"Originally published in France as Destruction massive: Geopolitique de la faim by Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2011"--Title page verso.

Faster Than A Cannonball - 1995 and All That

Part oral history, part narrative pop culture, part celebration of the music of 1995