Sociology and Anthropology

“Applied Psychology: A Global Perspective is an exceptional book in many ways. First, it is a pioneering work in covering the global issues as comp...

#MeToo, since its inception, has been a sensation. But did the movement die an inconsequential death? Contrary to popular belief, India has strong...

Explores the many insights of Indian and western feminists analyses of motherhood both as ideology and as practice. Interrogating Motherhood, the f...

About the Book Working in International Health is a practical guide for UK health professionals wanting to work in low and middle income countries....

About the Book Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpa...

Womentrepreneurs tells inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs in India. These stories, based on material collected through personal interviews, s...

A compilation of ancient Indian texts with feminist perspectives on women’s work Women and work is an important dimension of the ongoing debate o...

About the Book Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to...

About the Book Women and Politics examines the pursuit of gender equality from two viewpoints: the legal equality doctrine, which emphasizes gender...

About the Book Published as part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series , and through a series of thought-...

About the Book Why do people really give? Does giving indicate a kind heart? Is altruism about feeling good or is there more to it? We regularly s...

About the Book Understanding Max Weber's contribution to social theory is vital for students and scholars of social science. This insightful text o...

War Diaries Notebooks From A Phoney War 1939- 40 Book Description

In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers – sadhus or ascetics – in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox ...

About the Book Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in sha...

The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt contemp...

This volume shows the diversity of approaches to violence in Islamic thought between the 19th century and the present day, avoiding the limiting ch...

About the Book A systematic treatment of the design and fabrication of chipless RFID sensors This book presents various sensing techniques incorpor...

About the Book Solution focused practice offers proven ways of helping adults overcome a range of life difficulties, from physical and mental illne...

In South Asia, political liberation resulted in the partition of states, leading to huge flows of refugees who faced horrific, indescribable violen...

About the Book Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grip...

About the Book The SuperWoman Workshops have empowered and helped women to reach goals, take responsibility for their lives and utilize tools to be...

About the Book Social Scientist completed forty years of publication in the year 2012. To mark the occasion, collections of essays on specific topi...

About the Book The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in th...

About the Book This book brings together activists, artists, and scholars of color to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced ...

About the Book In recent years, the world has been re-introduced to the constituency of "white working class" people. In a wave of revolutionary po...

About the Book In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck,...

About the Book Dr. Joyce A. Ladner brings profound insight to the challenge of raising strong children in ambivalent times, and offers abundant rea...

About the Book This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Student's Companion to Social Policy charts the latest developments, rese...

Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a retired Ottoman notable, retires to its summer palace o...