Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book American Technology brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the...

About the Book With more than one million people currently infected and half a million already dead, the U.S. ranks among the top ten most severe A...

In this imposing new volume, Saurabh Dube writes against the grain of understandings which often set up objects of intellectual inquiry as the sing...

About the Book What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question...

About the Book Abortion has remained one of the most volatile and polarizing issues in the United States for over four decades. Americans are more ...

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...

India has made remarkable headway in reducing the prevalence of infectious diseases and extending people’s life expectancy. But despite all the pro...

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

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...

About the Book The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author...

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

A History of Humanity completes the remarkable story of the worldwide human community by including the unique insights of symbolic history alongsid...

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...

No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther ...

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...

I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have likewise and I’ve liked too many men. Fra...

"Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghold of Urdu and Persian literary culture, Shobna Nijhawan offer...

Variations in ceramics are culturally significant. These are an expression of the functions that they are meant to perform, the identity of a commu...

Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the inte...

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

This volume stems from the understanding that historiographical analyses of the Gita's reception overlook the element of its translation. It begins...

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...

The essays in this book highlight how education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue. Representing the transfer of kn...

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...

Cultural Politics of Popular Performances: The Structure and Representation of the Odia Jatra explores how, as a consequence of modernity, the hybr...

Inscribing Identities, Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early Historic India focuses on votive inscriptions from the second cent...