Social Science - General

Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13/14 February 1766 - 23 December 1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in...

Millennials: The So-Called Entitled Generation is an informative book on one of the world's most controversial generations. The author, Delano Perry, a millennial himself, details the everyday challenges of being considered entitled and narcissistic. He sheds light on many questionable labels and stereotypes in...

Since the very formation of the United States, millions of people have entered this great nation as pilgrims, refugees, entrepreneurs, opportunists, nomads, missionaries, and pioneers as eloquently noted by sapient author Cole P. Zail in his AMAC Magazine Summer 2018 article "Immigration: Solidarity, Identity,...

The Next 2000 Days offers a clear scenario of the dramatic unfolding of events that will follow in the 2000 day period after Obama's defeat of all challengers in the presidential contest of 2012. It explains why there will be no presidential election in...

In the 21st century, Progressives have innovated in ideology, jettisoning the economic class struggle of Marxism and replacing it with identity classes: gender, race, sexuality, religion, nationality, and ableness. Now it's (allegedly) whites (including "white adjacent" Asians and "hyperwhite" Jews), males, and Christians who...

This ground breaking volume explores the importance of transforming our attitude to the planet's resources. This requires a redesign of living standards and governance controls to enable humanity to emerge from an unsustainable way of life. It is mandatory reading for everyone concerned about...

With a field so broad in both breadth and depth as that making up the contemporary study of complex systems, it is well nigh impossible to cover all the bases underlying the development of well argued, robust and relevant understanding of these systems. That...

The practice of polygamy occupies a unique place in North American history and has had a profound effect on its legal and social development. The Polygamy Question explores the ways in which indigenous and immigrant polygamy have shaped the lives of individuals, communities, and...

Adult Education @ 21st Century tackles tough questions concerning how to respond to and engage with transnational education markets and multicultural diversity in a global environment typified by disorienting changes and continuities. Researchers from different countries demonstrate various ways in which the teachers of...

In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over the nation's values. Competition...

Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of...

This volume presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. It examines new perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform, and law and the family.Author: Susan S. SilbeyISBN-10: 0762305428ISBN-13: 9780762305421Publisher: Jai Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished:...

Edward Everett Hale was a leading member of the institutionalist group at the University of Texas. More radical than his better known colleague, Clarence E. Ayres, Hale influenced many students - originally through his lectures rather than his publications, which were few in number....

Advances in International Accounting is a referred, academic research annual, that is devoted to publishing articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This serial examines how these developments affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices,...

Any system for giving good advice has to maintain a tension between telling the truth and not being heard, on the one hand, and telling what can be heard but is not true, on the other. In such a system, the role of academic...

This is the sixth volume in a series dealing with such topics as information systems practice and theory, information systems and the accounting/auditing environment, and differing perspectives on information systems research.Author: Steven G. SuttonISBN-10: 0762304847ISBN-13: 9780762304844Publisher: Jai Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/25/1998Pages: 238Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize:...

Intelligence is considered in its widest sense, representing diverse view points and areas of specialization in this volume. Contributors represent an international network of intelligence and cognition researchers, coming from a wide range of countries including Germany, New Zealand, The Netherlands and the United...

This volume is part of an annually-published series of interdisciplinary research on law, with a critical focus. Research is invited on a wide range of law-related subjects, including law and inequality, feminist jurisprudence, racial oppression and law, and legal institutions and communities.Author: Susan S....

This is the fourth volume in a series of studies on advances in educational policy. It is divided into sections which examine: equal opportunities in developing countries; economic gap, racial change and social challenge; and, programme intervention and evaluation.Author: Kenneth K. WongISBN-10: 0762303735ISBN-13: 9780762303731Publisher:...

This is the fifth volume in a series dealing with such topics as information systems practice and theory, information systems and the accounting/auditing environment, and differing perspectives on information systems research.Author: Steven G. SuttonISBN-10: 076230295XISBN-13: 9780762302956Publisher: Jai Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1997Pages: 316Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize:...

The contributors to this volume include scholars and financial analysts. Their data, means of analysis and policy insights should be a useful source for future research and educational improvements. Going beyond mere juxtaposition, the editors' show how chief ideas represented in the chapters relate...

"Improving Educational Performance: Local and Systematic Reforms", Volume 5 of the series published in 1997, examines improvement of educational performance through state and local reform efforts and through increases in school choice opportunities. Researchers present operational frameworks that address the perceived failure of public...

The concept of governance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In Governing as Governance, Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field to map and demonstrate the utility of a sociopolitical perspective to our understanding of...

Inspired by the research and theory of Robert Freed Bales (Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Harvard University), this collection of research and applications using SYMLOG, a system for the multi-level observation of groups, provides the most recent examples of analyzing aspects of social interaction...

The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. The contributors, including include Samir Amin, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, argue...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

It is no coincidence that India's recent rise as an economic and military power has been closely linked to the increasing influence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Indian politics and its term in office during 1998-2004. Driven by the philosophy of Hindu/Indian...

In 2004, author James S. Serilla began to pen his thoughts on various current topics. Although his intention was to write about these current subjects, Serilla found himself instinctively outlining the evaluative system by which he came to his conclusions. Soon he realized that...

Author: Chris MoellerISBN-10: 0595213553ISBN-13: 9780595213559Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 424Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.08w x 1.06d

Author: Frank S. FarelloISBN-10: 0595192130ISBN-13: 9780595192137Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.38w x 0.68d

Reproduction reprint: "An Oration, Delivered Before The Citizens of Portland, And The Supreme Judicial Court In The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, On the Fourth Day of July 1799; Being the Anniversary of American Independence." By Amos Stoddard. Originally Printed and Sold by E.A. Jenks, Portland,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

The Ethics of Gambling by William Douglas MacKenzie is a comprehensive exploration of the ethical issues surrounding gambling. The book delves into the moral, social, and economic implications of gambling, examining the ways in which it affects individuals, communities, and society as a whole....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

The book arose out of the authors' experiences in a project which was itself unique: The Cornell-Tompkins Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Fayette County, Tennessee. The project entailed six to eight weeks of living in Fayette County by forty-five volunteers, mostly students...

Oxhorn studies the process by which social groups are incorporated into national socioeconomic and political development through an approach that focuses on the "social construction of citizenship." He sets forth a theory of civil society adequate for explaining current developments in a way that...

study of the case of an Auvergne family over several generations. Analysis of transgenerational traumas and changes in each member of the family treeAuthor: Claude-Alain SabyISBN-10: 0244492395ISBN-13: 9780244492397Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2019Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d

Written in clear, accessible prose, the Fourth edition of Computer Ethics brings together philosophy, law, and technology. The text provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of a broad range of topics regarding the ethical implications of widespread use of computer technology. The approach is...

An essential guide to mentorship in health and social care.Author: Julie Bailey-McHale,Donna Mary HartISBN-10: 0857029835ISBN-13: 9780857029836Publisher: Sage Publications LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2013Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.60w x 0.50d

Author: Kambiz MostofizadehISBN-10: 1942825331ISBN-13: 9781942825333Publisher: Mikazuki Publishing HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2020Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.37d