Social Science - General

This edited volume looks at regional integration processes in Asia. Whilst integration in the region, defined as Southeast and East Asia, is not a new process, it has gained momentum in recent years. Two developments have acted as catalysts for integration, first at the...

The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world's foreign aid, but also a unique case, combining the characteristics of a bilateral and a multilateral donor. Despite the general acknowledgment that policy coordination substantially improves both...

Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models and Applications will be of interest to those studying or researching in social psychology, in particular in the fields of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.Author: Richard J. CrispISBN-10: 0415655676ISBN-13: 9780415655675Publisher: Psychology PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2014Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Affordable and Social Housing - Policy and Practice is a candid and critical appraisal of current big-ticket issues affecting the planning, development and management of affordable and social housing in the United Kingdom. The successor to the second edition of the established textbook An...

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in...

We are in a critical period where civil society organizations actively influence business political behaviour, while corporations and business associations are adopting new and flexible strategies aimed at closer contact with civil society. Against the backdrop of such broad reorientations, this book analyzes the...

This book is an ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, providing a detailed and structured account of the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it. With specific focus on three environmental regimes, the volume explores the...

Much has been written about the economic and political implications of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been written about the specific cultural implications. Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book seeks to add to our knowledge of the...

Are we moving inexorably towards a 'new empire' or is global civil society transforming global politics into a 'new cosmopolis'? In The Global Politics of Globalization, the alternatives of 'Empire' and 'Cosmopolis' are counter-poised as representative of two antithetical conceptions and practices of world...

This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization. Written by interdisciplinary contributors from politics, sociology, law and philosophy,...

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with 'rights work' in a variety of settings. Author:...

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly...

Featuring contributions from both upcoming and distinguished scholars, including Steven Lukes, Joseph Nye, and Stefano Guzzini, this volume explores the nature and location of 'power' in international politics through a variety of conceptual lenses.Author: Felix BerenskoetterISBN-10: 0415421144ISBN-13: 9780415421140Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2007Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize:...

In June 2003, the Convention on the Future of Europe released what may become the Constitution of the European Union. This timely volume provides one of the first critical assessments of the draft Constitution from the vantage point of political theory. The work combines...

This book looks at how people's lives are affected by human services, covering specific policy and service issues, different aspects of working with people and the key debates. Unique insights gained from the combination of academic knowledge and real life experience make it a...

Explore the way society develops using the equally radical, but very different approaches of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Marx.Author: William Dugger,Howard J. ShermanISBN-10: 0415232643ISBN-13: 9780415232647Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2000Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d

Language in Action provides a psychological model of conversation for an understanding of the central issues in social and developmental psychology.Author: William TurnbullISBN-10: 0415198682ISBN-13: 9780415198684Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2003Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.34w x 0.73dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2004 pg. 1160

Monetary policy in developing countries is largely based on a system introduced in the 1960s. Emancipating the Banking System and Developing Markets for Government Debt illustrates how this outdated system has led to financial repression and suggests some alternatives. Maxwell Fry is one of...

First Published in 1979. Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination of the fundamental concepts involved in music. Keith Swanwick investigates questions such as: What is music? Is music meaningful? Does music refine our feelings and emotions? If...

The contributors use teachers' accounts together with their own research to examine how the use of computers in school can affect the ways in which children learn and teachers teach.Author: Peter ScrimshawISBN-10: 0415085756ISBN-13: 9780415085755Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/1993Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

Cancer is common but the psychological effects are too often ignored. This clear and simple handbook looks at the reactions of cancer patients to their illness and the ways they can be helped in the hospital setting.Author: Patrice GuexISBN-10: 0415064368ISBN-13: 9780415064361Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/1993Pages:...

The development of education on an international level has sparked the idea to find solutions on issues of education relevant to the 21st century, hence this book shares the strategies and efforts needed to strengthen the education in various regions and make sure it...

Written by a leading expert, Environmental Science and Technology: A Sustainable Approach to Green Science and Technology, Second Edition provides a general overview of green science and technology and their essential role in ensuring environmental sustainability. This book addresses the roles of the hydrosphere,...

Privacy for the Smart Grid provides easy-to-understand guidance on data privacy issues and the implications for creating privacy risk management programs, along with privacy policies and practices required to ensure Smart Grid privacy. It addresses privacy in electric, natural gas, and water grids from...

Prior to investment in an infrastructure project, it is necessary to establish its feasibility, both in monetary and nonmonetary terms. Nonmonetary considerations include social and environmental. Future demand and operating and maintenance costs for infrastructure are uncertain; lifetime and investment parameters are uncertain. This...

Originally published in 1991. This volume explores the combination of political and economic forces that influence different levels of food supply. The book takes an unusually broad look by including analyses of countries where hunger has rarely been studied and by examining African famine...

This book examines the concept of participation, as well as the different meanings it takes on in the context of health and welfare services. It asks how services can enable and stimulate participation outside of those services, particularly focusing on participation as engagement in...

Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North critically analyses the political and social frameworks of ART, and its impacts in different countries. In the context of a worldwide social pressure to conceive - particularly for women - this collection explores the effect...

First published in 1990. In this study, the author suggests ways that policy-makers can think about environmental policy choice that responds to the importance of uncertainty and delay. Hammitt describes several tools for environmental policy analysis and illustrates their application to important policy issues....

Individuals bereaved by the drug- or alcohol-related death of a family member represent a sizeable group worldwide. Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs is the long-awaited result of an important and ambitious research project into the experiences commonly encountered by members of this stigmatized...

First published in 1970. This book is concerned with the examination and assessment of the impact of changes in technology on companies in three selected industries: printing, steel and chemicals. Its main focus is on the employment and associated labour market effects of technological...

First published in 1982. Unemployment was a major scourge of the advanced capitalist countries in the 1930s, but in the golden age of post-war expansion which lasted until 1973, it had seemingly been vanquished by enlightened economic policy. Since 1973, unemployment has re-emerged as...

First published in 1986. This book analyses, at an introductory level, the four main and competing political interpretations of the cause of unemployment and the future of paid work - social democracy, free market liberalism, the disciplinary state, and utopian socialism. Considered together these...

First published in 1987. This volume explores the inter-war unemployment problem and the development of economic and social policy in relation to that problem. Contemporary policies and levels of unemployment can only be compared with the inter-war period and in recent years economists and...

First published in 1987. The reform of the welfare state in the United Kingdom is high on the agenda of all political parties and the proposals for reform, both official and private, are numerous. In this book, Professor Beenstock and his colleagues took a...

In one consequential volume, Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West presents the cross-section of a fast-changing and greatly expanded field. Through interdisciplinary essays, this volume on the post-national West challenges the idea of a unified national story sustained by strategic exclusions. Contributors...

The Series in Communication Technology and Society is an integrated series centering on the social aspects of communication technology. Written by outstanding communications specialists, it is designed to provide a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to the study of this rapidly changing field. The industrial nations...

In October 1998 a conference was held in Lisbon to celebrate Ludwig Streit's 60th birthday. This book collects some of the papers presented at the conference as well as other essays contributed by the many friends and collaborators who wanted to honor Ludwig Streit's...

Suitable for those who's ever been on either side of the surgical table, this title takes the readers closer into the corridors of the hospital, on the surgical table, and into the world of medicine. It offers a picture of disease and the miracle...

Dennis Lock's masterly exposition of the principles and practice of project management has been pre-eminent in its field for 45 years and was among the first books to treat project management as a holistic subject. But Project Management has been kept completely up to...

China's engagement in Africa is generally portrayed simply as African countries being exploited for their mineral wealth by a wealthy political and economic superpower. Is this always the case? Certain African countries have been able to use China's involvement in the region to grow...

The war effort had sputtered in Virginia for three years until President Abraham Lincoln appointed General U. S. Grant as General-in-Chief of all Union armies. By maintaining his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac, Grant established an uneasy relationship with the army's commander,...

Quick Bites of InsightSmall Shifts in Thinking. Meaningful Shifts in Impact.Leadership development does not happen in theory. It happens in real decisions, real conversations, and real moments of pressure.Quick Bites of Insight is a practical leadership book designed to strengthen strategic thinking, business acumen,...

A groundbreaking guide to understanding-and transforming-the psychological impact of being Black in America.Despite centuries of systemic trauma, Black communities continue to demonstrate unmatched resilience, creativity, and strength. Yet the emotional burden of navigating race, identity, and survival in modern America remains one of the...

Decolonizing Our World is an invitation to rethink the stories we have inherited about humanity, power, knowledge, and belonging. Written for a wide, global audience, this book explores how colonial frameworks continue to shape education systems, languages, religions, political structures, and global relationships-and how...

Counseling trauma and facilitating posttraumatic growth (PTG) requires a spiritually intelligent approach as a best practice. Recognition of the interconnectedness of trauma, resilience, spirituality, and PTG is emerging. This reprint provides resources for practitioners, researchers, and educators interested in spiritual competency and diverse solutions...

Why does it feel like people no longer agree on what's real? Institutions still exist. Experts still speak. News still flows. But for many people, something more basic has changed. Authority no longer organizes reality in the way it once did. Trust has thinned....

Most discussions of technology focus on misinformation, manipulation, or individual self-control. This book takes a different approach. It looks at how feeds, notifications, algorithms, and engagement-driven systems increasingly perform psychological work that people once did internally: pacing attention, regulating emotion, prioritizing concerns, and determining...

Why do otherwise capable, intelligent people hold conspiracy beliefs even when those beliefs repeatedly fail to match reality? Most discussions focus on misinformation, cognitive bias, or personality traits. They ask why people are wrong and how to correct them. That explains part of the...

Most people learn about voting, rights, and public debate. They are rarely taught about the everyday work that keeps democratic systems functioning over time. The Civic Roles Nobody Teaches focuses on that work.This is not a resistance manual, a procedural guide, or a diagnosis...