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Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

This fully updated new edition of Gender in the Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropologica...

Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power - European Perspectives

In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political...

Law, Literature, and Violence Against Women - Ending the Victim Blame Game

This book engages legal and literary texts in order to examine acquaintance crimes, such as rape, sexual harassment, stalking, and domest...

Get Involved! - Stories of Bahamian Civil Society

Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the ...

Managing Mothers - Dual Earner Households After Maternity Leave

First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative inside story of the ...

Ransomware Analysis - Knowledge Extraction and Classification for Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence

This book presents the development of a classification scheme to organize and represent ransomware threat knowledge through the implement...

The Sex Role System - Psychological and Sociological Perspectives

First published in 1978, The Sex Role System traces the phenomenon of sex role stereotyping through many different disciplines and areas ...

Contemporary Britain - Three Lectures

First published in 1971, Contemporary Britain presents lectures by Barbara Wootton, well known as a socialist and agnostic and her opinio...

Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian Villages - An Impact Study

This text explores how social education impacts gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where women's lives are damaged by discrimination...

Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge - Voices of Tropical Forest People

This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand. This defo...

DEI and Intersectional Social Identities at Work - A Communication Approach

This book equips readers-both students and communication practitioners--with the theoretical understanding and practical skills they need...

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education - Approaches to Policy, Quality, and Leadership

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of par...

Cities, Change, and Conflict - A Political Economy of Urban Life

This sixth edition of Cities, Change, and Conflict features a new, groundbreaking chapter on the relationship between the physical enviro...

Infrastructural Attachments - Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya

Set against critiques of neoliberal capitalism in the present, Infrastructural Attachments argues that the technopolitics of austerity ha...

Urbanisation in Bengal - Ideas, Institutions and Policies

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of ur...

Contemporary Urban Planning

Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in-depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, le...

The Painful Truth about Hunger in America - Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--And Start Again

"An invitation to pivot how we address hunger in America, rooted in the personal, political, and spiritual work critical to making change"--

Home Is Where Your Politics Are - Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a vivid consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa, situated in their ...

Home, History and Possession in Israel-Palestine

Taking a micro-geographical approach to Israeli-Palestinian relations, this book analyses the history of space and place in West Jerusale...

Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies - Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities

This handbook is a fundamental contribution to the recent history and contemporary context of feminist, gender, and women¿s studies in a ...

Environmental Crime in the United States - Law and Enforcement

Environmental Crime in the United States provides an introduction to the laws that govern environmental crime, how these laws are impleme...

Weimar's Long Shadow

"The political and cultural lessons drawn from the collapse of the Weimar Republic are invoked in order to understand contemporary threat...

Crossing Great Divides - City and Country in Environmental and Political Disorder

"Argues that the habit of thinking of the city and the country as opposites is at the root of our environmental and political disorder, a...

The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century

This handbook discusses the concept of sustainable education as a tool for institutional leadership, educational program development, and...

Women Defendants and International Law - Feminist Dialogues

This book addresses the largely neglected place of women defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction o...

Coming of Age - How Adolescence Shapes Us

Adolescence is the most dramatic and formative time of our lives. Whether you are parenting a teenager or looking to make sense of your o...

The Promise of Planning - Global Aspirations and South African Experience Since 2008

This book explores international planning since 2008, providing a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa. The book explor...

Transforming Food Systems - Narratives of Power

This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged t...

Ethnographic Ways of Knowing - A History Through the Work and Lives of Ten Methodological Innovators

Drawing on the works of ten scholars and public intellectuals ranging over 200 years, this book foregrounds ways of knowing that go beyon...

Gender and Power in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia

Adriany explores gender discourses in early childhood education in Indonesia, as well as how teachers and children are engaged in the pro...

Positive Youth Development through Sport

Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers in...

Everything Is Mnásome - 365 Days of Celebrating Irish Women

Explore an historical event celebrating the achievements of Irish women for every single day of the year. From social advancement to brea...

Understanding Business Offenders - A Comparative Analysis of Workplace Deviance, Convenience and Control

Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number ...

Feminism and Politics - A Comparative Perspective

"A provocative and illuminating exploration of the relationship between feminist strategies and achievements in three countries. This boo...

Fighting Women - Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia

"The book contains a major statement on the comparative study of women--violence, aggression, and their psychosocial impact on women's li...

The Female Body and the Law

"The Female Body and the Law is an important book that needs to be read by a broad range of scholars, feminists, journalists, and activis...

Circumstantial Deliveries

"Whether one agrees with Needham's perspectives or not, this book is stimulating, provocative, and a delight to read. It displays sparkli...

Fertility Change on the American Frontier - Adaptation and Innovation

"The strength of this book comes from its use of a unique data set of Mormon genealogies that allows the authors to look back to the begi...

Essential Issues in Symbolic Interaction

This volume serves as a forum for symbolic interactionists to demonstrate how/why their respective lines of research contribute to the qu...

Tracking Interaction in Chinese Scholars' Academic Writing - Through the Lens of Metadiscourse

This book tracks changes in the use of metadiscourse in Chinese scholars' English and Chinese research articles, discusses how these chan...

Shattered Innocence - A Shared Global Shame

A book that will change your view on the transnationally and transcriminality of slavery in plain sight in the 21st Century and how it is...

On Sex and Gender - A Commonsense Approach

An eye-opening account of what the left and right get wrong about sex and gender—and how we can be a thoughtful, sex-smart society.

Code Dependent - Living in the Shadow of AI

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our g...

Experimental Sociology - Outline of a Scientific Field

Letters from Lexington - Reflections on Propaganda

Upon its original publication in 1993, this book reaffirmed Chomsky's status as one of the most incisive critics of the American media. R...

Transforming Bodies - Gendered Stories of Embodied Change

Transforming Bodies: Gendered Stories of Embodied Change explores the ways that bodies transform and change, and how these changes relate...

Rat City - Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun

Behind the internet's viral "Universe 25" experiment and Robert C. O'Brien's iconic novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Secret of NIMH, was one sc...

India Migration Report 2023 - Student Migration

The India Migration Report 2023: Student Migration is one of the first books that attempts to comprehensively explore the various nuances...

All About Black Girl Love in Education - bell hooks and Pedagogies of Love

Drawing from bell hook¿s 1999 book All About Love, this volume builds on theories of love as they relate to Black Girlhood in education, ...

Social Transformation and the Global Economy - Labour, Latin America, and the Lefts

The context of this book is set by the decline of the globalization paradigm's ability to grasp the complexity and uncertainty of the cur...

Exploring Social Movements - Theories, Experiences, and Trends

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an in...

Taiwan's COVID-19 Experience - Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic

This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Nature of Our Cities - Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Jonathan Doerr, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how scientists from aroun...

Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa - A Sociological Perspective

This book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the soc...

Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change - Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis. It will be of interest t...

Modelling the City - Formal Ontology and Spatial Humanities

This book focuses on European towns and cities, analysing the opportunities and limitations of modelling of urban space. It is strongly r...

Identity Economics - Multidisciplinary Insights into Decision-Making Behavior

This book fills a gap in the extant literature by providing an in-depth analysis of the main claims made in favour of identity economics....

Collective Memory, Marginality, and Spatial Politics in Urban Indonesia.

This volume presents three important themes for the study of Indonesian politics, cultures, and space today: 1) urban regeneration and co...

Muslim Legal Pluralism in the West - Transnationalism, Political Participation, Citizenship and Shari'a

This book is a comprehensive introductory text to the subject of Western Muslims' diverse interpretations, discussions and practices of S...

Social Panics and Phantom Attackers - A Study of Imaginary Assailants

This book provides an accessible overview of one particular type of social panic: that of the phantom attacker. Such panics are character...