Social Science - General

People around the world face grave crises of wars, climate change, genocides, rising sea levels, human rights violations, and inequitable distribution of natural resources. These problems are transcontinental, interconnected, and create immense human suffering, which require collective efforts toward just and sustainable global solutions....

Author: Marlene Marin GodoyISBN-13: 9798295563140Publisher: Marlene Marin GodoyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2026Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d

Author: Klaus SchwabISBN-10: 297019547XISBN-13: 9782970195474Publisher: Schwab Academy SaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2025Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Author: Cedric A. WashingtonISBN-10: 1970680040ISBN-13: 9781970680041Publisher: Who Lives Like This?! Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2026Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.15d

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Author: Cedric A. WashingtonISBN-10: 1970680148ISBN-13: 9781970680140Publisher: Who Lives Like This?! Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/25/2025Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.18d

Synanon stole my baby-and still I believed.They sterilized the men and coerced women to have abortions-and still I believed.They carried guns and violently confronted their enemies-and still I believed.In the shadow of Berkeley's radical 1960s, nineteen-year-old Janet was drawn to Synanon-a drug-free, violence-free community...

The new big brother Artificial intelligence is considered neutral-but it learns from a world full of inequality. And it seems to like pornography. This book shows how algorithms recode old misogyny and why discrimination in the digital world is rarely a coincidence, but rather...

Dr. Stephanie Schilling's Between Crime and Care exposes one of the most misunderstood realities of modern policing, that being the "gray area" in policing. As a law enforcement officer with nearly three decades of experience, I know the gray area to be the most...

From a childhood under Martial Law in the Philippines to the fractured beauty of building a new life in America, Shadows and Sunrises is a powerful debut memoir of shame, strength, and survival. Told with unflinching honesty and warmth, this memoir explores motherhood, migration,...

Permaculture gardens are hands-on holistic regenerative opportunities for more life-centred business education. Community gardening is a growing movement worldwide, offering multiple environmental and social benefits, including greater energy efficiency in buildings, enhanced biodiversity in cities, production of locally grown, organic vegetables, integration of local...

Inspired by the courage and conviction of young leaders like Greta Thunberg, Walter Leslie Christman has made it his life's mission to empower the next generation to take bold steps toward reshaping global resilience. As co-founder of the One Million Youth Leaders for Sustainable...

Hidden in plain sight, just blocks away from the glistening skyscrapers and luxury shopping districts of Los Angeles, lies a neighborhood that tells a stark, painful truth about the American dream. Skid Row is not just a place-it's a living, breathing symbol of systemic...

This volume explores two fundamental questions. The first concerns the essence of the hero and the nature of heroic action. The second question has to do with the cultural role of the hero. This is an issue worth discussing, inasmuch as heroes often represent...

The Star Rover, also known as The Jacket, was published in 1915 and is one of Jack London's later novels. This work is a blend of science fiction, adventure, and philosophical exploration.The story follows Darrell Standing, an inmate in a brutal California prison who...

Environmental constraints are becoming increasingly severe, and now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from an "underground resources" type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sense of nature. To...

This book looks at the development of this wave of protests, with an eye on protests against austerity and neoliberal economic policies, and offers a global view, covering events in Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and other locations.Author: Donatella Della PortaISBN-10:...

A quiet, luminous doorway into England's heart. William Dean Howells's Certain Delightful English Towns, With Glimpses Of The Pleasant Country Between invites readers to stroll through lanes of memory and landscape, noticing how town life and countryside interact to shape character, mood, and culture....

Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass mediaas well as potential allies, competitors, recruits, and funders. Discussing protestors...

This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be understood as the culmination of a long reform trajectory, analyzed in detail with...

Flood prevention, food safety, the transport of hazardous substances, infectious diseases, the risk of new technologies and many other threats to public health and the environment call for ongoing public alertness. However, the ways in which these safety risks are currently assessed and managed...

Making illegal residence unattractive is a way for Western governments to limit migration from non-Western countries. Focusing on Dutch neighbourhoods with substantial levels of unauthorised migrants, Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands examines how restrictive immigration policy influences immigrant crime and perceived...

Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social, cultural and economic transformation. For sociologists, the challenge is arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage. In this book, the contributing authors consider solidarity as a cognitive problem of basic science. They examine how...

As part of a wider democracy promotion effort, political parties in Georgia and Ukraine, as in most other post-communist states, have received assistance from a number of non-governmental but governmentfunded western organizations for most of the post-communist period. This assistance, however, has persistently failed...

Globalization, financial liberalization and neo-liberal economic policy thinking have been seen as contributors to the demise of social partnership in Western Europe. Recent examples of the re-emergence of social pacts have challenged these assumptions. The book offers a theoretical understanding of the challenges that...

The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of...

In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.Author: Robert FoxISBN-10: 3718657929ISBN-13: 9783718657926Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/1996Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

What is European Union and who are its citizens? Is a continent-wide community just a dream or a realistic political project? This research shows how the European top-politicians perceive the institutions and the goals of the European Union. By analysing concepts such as sovereignty,...

This book contains close readings of contemporary literary texts and art work by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America. The readings reveal a critical debate that understands reflections on the slave trade and current migrations from Africa to Europe as continuity...

The Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, - According to the use of the Church of England. Together with the Psalms of David. Printed in phonography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of...

Our species Homo sapiens; Where we came from and how we developed...Probably, the questions of the Universe, religion, and their place in our life appear in the mind of any thinking person. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: All people are born free...

Economic and social change is accelerating under the twin impact of globalisation and the new information technologies. But how are these processes interrelated? Are they impelling us towards a common socio-economic future? What can governments do if they want to manage and steer the...

Innovation is promoted to improve performance and increase the quality of services provided by public service organisations. Managing public services innovation provides the first in-depth exploration of innovation and the management of innovation in the housing association sector. Drawing on longitudinal case studies and...

The study of the economic history of Islamic lands before 1800 has lagged behind the political, diplomatic and social history of the same area. This book covers three large topics: land, trades and money. It proposes entirely new perspectives on the non-European experience of...

In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace...

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of "monument fatigue", a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of...

In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black...

In the past decade, trust has gained a prominent place at the center of academic scholarship in the social sciences. Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives provides a variety of theoretical perspectives on the topics of trust and...

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's (1735 - 1813) book Letters from an American Farmer was first published in London in 1782. Through a series of letters the author talks about an idealized free society in America. The author's farm Pine Hill is the...

What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other...

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious...

There are no two neighbouring countries anywhere in the world that are more different than Indonesia and Australia. They differ hugely in religion, language, culture, history, geography, race, economics, worldview and population (Indonesia, 270 million, Australia less than 10 per cent of that). In...

Violent television programs are highly preferred by children. They stimulate their emotions and increase curiosity about violence-related issues. This means that watching violent television programs has an impact upon their way of perceiving the world around them and acting in response to it. This...

States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and align religious beliefs, practices and communities. At the same time, societies understood that affective...

Perhaps there is no field in which accurate information and dependable direction are more eagerly sought by old and new officials, legislative bodies, civic and social agencies, and citizens in general than in public welfare. This volume is an effort to meet the demand...

Author: Joel BermanISBN-10: 144155405XISBN-13: 9781441554055Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2009Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

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...

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"Britain's Remembrancer, Or, The Danger Not Over" by James Burgh is a significant political commentary reflecting the concerns and anxieties of 18th-century Britain. Burgh, a prominent political writer, delivers a powerful analysis of the state of the nation, warning against complacency and urging vigilance...

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...