Social Science - General

With so many social challenges facing our world, trying to effect change feels daunting. The problems are complex, the politics murky, and the players innumerable. Yet, every day there are regular heroes making a significant impact on our most intractable social issues. "Can't Not...

Keepers of the House is a series of poems about teaching English in a public high school, and how a school can be a home for students and their teacher. Written by a veteran educator, working with a diverse population that ranges from underprivileged...

Beyond Sled Dogs and GoldSomewhere between myths and hard facts you find Nome, poised also between yesterday and tomorrow. Drawing on his background in anthropology and an equal passion for history, Michael Engelhard surveys the seam that links two neighboring continents through the lens...

How Maoism Was Made focuses on the history of the early years in China after 1949, featuring new scholarship by academics across Europe and North America. The field of early PRC history has been transformed by the unprecedented accessibility of archives from the 1990s...

'Broken, ' the first book in the debut Dark Romance/Psychological Thriller series by M.A. McNally, centres on the questions many women ask themselves: where would I be now if I'd never laid eyes on him and would my life have turned out any differently?"Jayden...

Radical Nurses unearths the extraordinary stories of 28 nurses who defied expectations, shattered norms, and redefined what it means to care. From fearless activists on the front lines of social justice to visionary writers who illuminated the profession, from steadfast nuns whose faith shaped...

Mind over Matter is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how spirituality changes lives in a variety of ways. Unlike much philosophically rooted literature on spirituality, it encourages an understanding of what can be achieved through faith, belief, and self-confidence, without reliance on specific...

Robert Gass served as a firefighter in the FDNY for 27 years, witnessing firsthand the challenges, triumphs, and hidden complexities of urban firefighting. His experiences responding to fires and emergencies in New York City shaped his deep respect for the profession and the men...

Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aim? C?saire's Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on C?saire's critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized's mind. The...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The Social Significance of Short Stature draws on the social, psychological, and physical aspects of a uniquely stigmatized group of persons who share the rare and unusual quality of being extremely diminutive in size. In a world of average-sized persons where the concept of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Researchers and scientists have searched and searched for an answer to how our sexual orientation is developed or created without success. They have found valuable information that may be part of the answer or caused by the answer, but never the complete answer to...

Henry J Lewis Jr. has presented a collection of essays rooted in sociological, organizational, and the psycho-socio-cultural theories of complex networks of behavioural interactions. He addresses several transformational challenges that Jamaica, and to a large extent the entire Caribbean region, must grapple with in...

The second edition of the Message to a Blackman in Africa is an expansion of the first edition which was written three years ago. This is a doctrine of the African social insurgency; it defies conventional thinking with an open argument that prods the...

This book tries hard to summarise to a more accessible language the fundamental concepts of Marxism without tone down the scientific and revolutionary characteristics.Author: Robin GoodfellowISBN-10: 2371610127ISBN-13: 9782371610125Publisher: Association Robin GoodfellowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2016Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.18d

Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a...

A book explaining the common knowledge that we are all human, and no power exist to control us. That taxes are paid to idiots who attempt to take controlAuthor: Anthony James Francis Mantova S. F. O.ISBN-10: 1500404438ISBN-13: 9781500404437Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2014Pages:...

This volume contains two vintage studies on the history of alcohol in Africa and Asia, with information on historical production techniques, popularity and influence, notable producers, and many other related aspects. This fascinating volume will appeal to those with an interest in the historical...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

First published in 1993. Any political system must respond to the needs of its' peoples and the European Community was no exception. This book, an all-round guide to the education of pupils with special educational needs in Europe, examines the policy and practice of...

When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's authoritarian state controls protest and implements ambitious policies from sweeping urbanization schemes that have...

The essays in this volume, by veteran economists as well as younger scholars, are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes. The contributors argue that Keynes was correct...

The Poverty of Structuralism is the first in a sequence of volumes which examine in turn the basic ideas of Saussure, Marx and Freud, and analyse the way in which they have been developed and applied to art, culture and modern textual theory. The...

This interdisciplinary work presents an integration of theory and research on how children develop their thinking as they participate in cultural activity with the guidance and challenge of their caregivers and other companions. The author, a leading developmental psychologist, views development as an apprenticeship...

A practical, comprehensive approach to the major areas of social work with older adults Social Work with Older Adults provides pre- and in-service social workers with a clear and engaging all-in-one resource for working with older adults. This practical and comprehensive text examines the...

Author: Brian GoldmanISBN-10: 144345107XISBN-13: 9781443451079Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2024Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.80d

Author: Nathanyel Ben IsraelISBN-10: 1698718551ISBN-13: 9781698718552Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2025Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

From the early days of navigating the world with bare hands to harnessing tools that transformed stones and sticks, human ingenuity has birthed science and technology. As societies expanded, the complexity of our tools grew, raising a crucial question: do we control them, or...

An essential handbook of policing leadership behavioural skills for both professional police officers and policing students aspiring to join the force. The behaviours examined are of relevance to all ranks and roles, from a newly appointed police constable to an executive officer.Behavioural soft skills...

Master Strategy, Conquer Challenges, and Lead to Victory ⚔️ The Art of War by Sun Tzu ⚔️ The ultimate guide to strategy, leadership, and success For over 2,500 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has stood as the definitive text on strategy, tactics,...

The book is a collection of essays covering a range of subjects from science to history and social commentary as well as personal revelations.The author was born in Baltimore, MD in 1950. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1972. He has authored one...

Justice, equity, and fairness are central concerns of everyday life. We frequently assess the fairness of individual acts, social programs, and institutional policies. This book explores how distributions of costs and benefits determine our intuitions about fairness. Some chapters examine the extent to which...

This book is the product of over twenty years of research examining the impact interpretation has on its audiences. The results of over thirty research studies are examined to help practitioners, managers, and students successfully convey interpretative messages. The findings, offered through vignettes and...

This book is the product of over twenty years of research examining the impact interpretation has on its audiences. The results of over thirty research studies are examined to help practitioners, managers, and students successfully convey interpretative messages. The findings, offered through vignettes and...

African American Crossword Puzzles & Other Word Games + Sudoku provides an engaging, inspiring and fun mix of crosswords, criss-crosses, word searches and logic problems (and more). The book covers the range of African American achievement in entertainment and world culture, education, politics, literature,...

America's problems seem insurmountable: a broken healthcare system, rampant gun violence, extreme inequality, racial injustice, political paralysis, and a justice system in crisis. While politicians offer empty solutions and pundits provide endless commentary, this revolutionary book takes a dramatically different approach.Through the voices of...

The digital revolution entails that all important aspects of our existence fundamentally change: How we see the world and how we see ourselves, how we think, how we work, how we relate to and communicate with each other, and what is even possible to...

The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein...

From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The general aim of this book is to describe and analyse patterns of informal care and support for carers in Sweden. A typology of four different care categories based on what carers do revealed that women were much more likely than men to be...

A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the social norms and rules and responsibilities of, or proper practices for, an individual, party or organization. Related concepts include ethical, honor, moral codes and religious laws.In its 2007 International Good Practice Guidance, "Defining...

This century has been characterized by a strong and pervasive belief in "certainty through science. " It is a belief that has been nurtured by philosophers, scientists, and governing bodies alike. And, where vocal reassurance has failed to convince, modem technology has more than...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...