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Upon its original publication in 1993, Letters from Lexington reaffirmed Noam Chomsky's status as one of the most incisive critics of the American ...

Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. ...

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual w...

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to soci...

Kim offers an accessible, interdisciplinary textbook using systems theory as a framework to stimulate discussion about how the social sciences deve...

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contribution...

Asserting a critical sociological perspective, Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival reveals the contested historical processes through...

This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for elevating a just organizati...

Change and Disruption: Sociology of the Future draws on classical and modern sociological theory to identify recent and emerging trends in the glob...

The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructiv...

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gender...

This concise, accessible, and engaging handbook offers a companion for social work students to acquire professional and competency-based writing sk...

Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction. In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn thei...

Game Audio Mixing offers a holistic view of the mixing process for games, from philosophical and psychological considerations to the artistic consi...

The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities has generated much excitement about the potential to refresh our approaches to the stu...

This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions. It takes a ne...

This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the spectrum of English language learners to address their varied backgrounds and their ...

Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks. Offering a range of case...

Making It Happen is a comprehensive guide to navigating the modern music industry, that redefines what ‘making it’ means for musicians, and inspire...

Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores...

This is a comprehensive guide to teach writing and story development from a collaborative global perspective. This book teaches writers how to tak...

A comprehensive collection of texts from the most influential and iconic figure of Italian second-wave feminism. Recently rediscovered in Italy a...

Digitalization is shaping our everyday lives, yet navigating the changes it entails can feel like trekking into the unknown, where both the possibi...

Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation explores the dynamic counterpoint between a film’s soundtrack, its visuals and narrative, and the audience’...

Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional t...

Innovation in Music: Cultures and Contexts is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and profes...

A step-by-step introduction to successful fieldwork, this guide will help you to plan, design, conduct and share your research. Packed with practi...

Can television shows like Stranger Things, popular music by performers like Taylor Swift, advertisements for products like Samuel Adams beer, and f...

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and pr...

Theatre in Practice, third edition, is an accessible and wide-ranging exploration of the central practices and key practitioners covered on the var...

Now in its seventh edition, The Art of Voice Actingcovers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. Starting with the basics ...

This fully revised and updated edition of Social Movements and Protest Politics provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of protest...

From healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised...

Experiencing Jazz, Third Edition is an integrated textbook, website, and audio anthology for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through reading...

How does a room affect an occupant's behavior and well-being? How does a building influence its residents' health? Environmental Psychology for Des...

Unlike other texts for undergraduate sociological social psychology courses, Individual and Society covers each of the three research traditions in...

Framing research as the process of asking and answering questions, this book demonstrates how to identify good research questions and how to struct...

In this significantly revised third edition, Designing Zero Carbon Buildings combines embodied and operational emissions into a structured approach...

In today’s globalized world, every aspect of our lives is affected by global interconnectedness from what we buy to what we eat to what we study – ...

These fifteen stories reflect contemporary cultural changes in Indian families. They stand witness to social, political and economic changes in glo...

Hutom Pyanchar Naksha (literally, 'Sketches by Hutom the Owl'), a set of satirical portraits in Bengali about ordinary life in the nineteenth centu...