Social Sciences

How The Grove Became Gay : 1936-1945 -- Built Upon The Sand -- The Gay Country Club : 1946-1959 -- The Battle For The Beach -- Conviviality And Camp -- Trou...

Boys Like Us Presents The True Coming Out Stories Of A Stellar Line-up Of Gay Writers, Spanning Two Generations. Written Specifically For This Collection, T...

This Work Charts The Journey Of African Americans From Their Origins In The Civilizations Of Africa, Through Slavery In The Western Hemisphere, To Their Str...

When And Why Do Groups Target Each Other For Extermination? How Do Seemingly Normal People Become Participants In Genocide? Why Do Some Individuals Come To ...

Reformulates Immigrant Rights Movements Within A Transnational Analysis Of Capitalism, Labor Exploitation, Settler Colonialism, State Building, And Racializ...

Howard Hawks is now regarded as one of the greatest directors ever to work in Hollywood. His career stretched from the silent era through the seventies and ...

Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked t...

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about...

Digging Deeper is a comprehensive manual of investigative techniques and a guide filled with practical tips on how to find information on the public record ...

For every group that is oppressed, one or more other groups are privileged in relation to it. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the ...

"Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. . . ." When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely si...

in Contrast To The Currently Dominant Treatment- Oriented Approach To Psychotherapy, This Text For Clinicians Argues For The Equal Importance Of The Psychot...

In cities across North America, teenage runaways are struggling to stay alive. Some don't make it to adulthood. Some do, but their lives rarely rise above ...

Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to Nor...

For More Than A Decade, Kathy Harrison Has Sheltered A Shifting Cast Of Troubled Youngsters -- The Offspring Of Prostitutes And Addicts; The Sons And Daught...

Balanced And Comprehensive, Youth Justice Is The Only Textbook That Provides Multiple Current Perspectives On The Canadian Youth Justice System.youth Justic...

The Book Is Based On The Authors' Highly Successful Multidisciplinary Qualitative Methods Workshops, Which Have Been Conducted For Over A Decade. They Intro...

This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. This book provides an introduction to the fiel...

This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new secti...

Unrivalled In The Way It Makes The Teaching Of Statistics Compelling And Accessible To Even The Most Anxious Of Students, The Only Statistics Textbook You A...

With Over 115 Concise And Authoritative Chapters Covering A Wide Range Of Disciplines The Book Is Divided Into Ten Sections Covering The Nature Of Developme...

As we are approaching our fin de sielce, issues of time and memory haunt contemporary culture. Musuems and memorials are being constructed rapidly, as if t...

Over the past decade, legal wagering has expanded rapidly in North America. In 1998 alone, people lost 50 billion dollars in legal betting and it is estimat...

A Trusted Course Text And Professional Resource, This Comprehensive Book Delves Into All Aspects Of Planning And Conducting Strengths-based Group Work With ...

Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest...

A unique collective portrait of the United Kingdom during the national lockdown of 2020. Introduction by The Duchess of Cambridge. Text by Lemn Sissay MBE. ...

Communications, Philosophy, Film And Video, Digital Culture: Media Studies Straddles An Astounding Array Of Fields And Disciplines And Produces A Vocabulary...

Identifies The Qualities Of Successful People, Maintaining That Culture, Family, And Idiosyncratic Factors Can Have A Decisive Impact On Shaping High Achiev...

A story-based guide to the techniques of shamanic healing• Details indigenous medicine tools and soul healing techniques, including diagnosis and energy c...

In this exciting new addition to Oxford's acclaimed Themes in Canadian Sociology series, author James S. Frideres examines the ways in which colonization an...

Chap. I.. On Symbols Common To Different Races -- Chap. Ii.. On The Gammadion Or Swastika -- Chap. Iii.. On The Causes Of Alteration In The Meaning And Form...

A guide to more than one thousand beasts, specters, and other monsters, from the Bible's Leviathan to Hollywood's Alien, arranged alphabetically and cross-r...

The Routledge Handbook Of The Politics Of Migration In Europe Provides A Rigorous And Critical Examination Of What Is Exceptional About The European Politic...

Based on exhaustive research by a trained historian, the definitive work on the Ripper murders includes much new material, the discovery of a possible new v...

This edited volume investigates the political and socioeconomic impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Lebanon and Jordan, and these countries' mechanisms t...

Featuring A Wide Array Of Iconic Rock Posters, Period Photographs, Music Memorabilia And Light Shows, Out-of-this-world Clothing, And Avant-garde Films, Thi...

Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high partici...

This book provides fresh sociological analyses on family violence in Japan. Aimed at an international audience, the authors adopt a life course perspective ...

Classical Mythology: Images and Insights approaches the study of myths through complete works of Greco-Roman literature, including six complete Greek dramas...

With its unique blend of compelling topics and rich pedagogy, Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication, Fifteenth Edition, offers a perfect bal...

The New Edition Of The Best-selling Text, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, And Mixed Methods Approaches By John W. Creswell And Co-author J. Davi...

Political Altruism And The Solidarity Movement / Florence Passy -- Do Unto Others / Charles Tilly -- Dynamics Of Commitment In The Sector Known As Solidarit...

Social Entrepreneurship Is A Revolution Occurring Around The World Today. People From All Walks Of Life Are Developing And Implementing Innovative, Effectiv...

This book presents a distinctive approach to organizational consultation and planned change that reflects current research and theorizing about organizati...

This volume is divided into four main areas of philosophy: logic, epistemology (theory of knowledge); philosophy of mind; and ethics. Each chapter within t...

A comprehensive, trusted core text on media's impact on attitudes, behavior, elections, politics, and policymaking, Mass Media and American Politics is kn...

The Definitive Book On Freedmen's Teachers In The South As Well As An Outstanding Contribution To Social History And Our Understanding Of African American E...

In 1880, the California woman safeguarded the Republic by maintaining a morally sound home. Scarcely forty years later, women in the Pacific state won full...