Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of In...

About the Book French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered h...

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term et...

A People`s History of India 7 - Society and Culture in Post-Mauryan India, C. 200 BC-AD 300 [Paperback] Irfan Habib

About the Book The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and...

About the Book The rapid development of democracy and political freedoms has created new and sophisticated psychology-based methods of influencing ...

About the Book Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanit...

A novel model of care—integrating education, treatment and social and emotional development—that addresses the issues of people with disability Thi...

About the Book Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays assesses fields including humanita...

In Blind Spot, Myriam Tadessé exposes the difficulty, even the impossibility, for France to truly understand and celebrate the lived realities of m...

This book is a pioneering attempt to study Mughal Indian polity and the dynamics of family, kinship and caste through Riti Kal literature. The lite...

This series of books from Learning Matters is aimed at busy social work and health care practitioners, particularly in the context of integrated he...

The new, tenth edition of Social Psychology is a fully revised and sweeping look into the social forces that make us who we are. Real-life examples...

"An extremely valuable source of reading, information, and guidance for my policing students. It covers all the topical issues." Johannes Oosthuize...

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contr...

Completing a systematic review and unsure where to start or what path to take? Set out on your journey confidently with this practical guide writte...

Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the evolving landscape of online crime, this fourth edition of Cybercrime and Society is a comprehensiv...

This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems i...

Praise for the First Edition: "A real, combined approach of behavioural, social, biomedical, and clinical sciences is paramount. [This book] is on...

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of t...

This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.

A philosophical exploration of what capitalistic societies truly mean for the individual. A short vade mecum for unrepentant materialism, The Idea ...

Reveals the forgotten history of Baghdadi Jews’ journey into India through the stories of four generations of Jewish women. An invaluable cultura...

From Society to System presents an overview of sociologist Michel Freitag's (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elabo...

Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. This boo...

Finding Out, Fourth Edition introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and ...

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemio...

Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic o...

This text provides a practical, hands-on introduction to data conceptualization, measurement, and association through active learning. Students get...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocris...

Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their h...

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts.

This book identifies and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, an...

This book explores the intersection of clinical and social aspects of traumatic experiences in postdictatorial and post-war societies, forced migra...

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issue...

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society, this ...

Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and u...

First Love is never forgotten. It stays with you till your last breath. What if you are given a second chance at your first love. Will You leave ev...

The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the fourth edition of his best-sel...

Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume ...

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are p...

Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in...

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and ide...

The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. Inter...

Dangerous outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reorder...

A groundbreaking book that reveals, for the first time, the crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control needs to know

Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration into Modern Day Slavery by Wendy Stickle, Shelby Hickman, and Christine White examines the legal, so...