Social Science - General

Ladakh, for centuries, has been a land of mystery for the people of many ethnicities. Notwithstanding a rich historical background, Ladakh today is a vastland with its own unique culture and traditions. Known by many names like the Land of Lamas, Moon land, Land...

This book examines, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of globalization and individualization on social solidarity.Author: Paul Beer,Ferry KosterISBN-10: 9089641289ISBN-13: 9789089641281Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2010Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d

"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability. Social learning is explored from a range of fields challenged by sustainability including: organizational learning,...

The Guinea Voyage - A Poem is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1789. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...

Poetical Works is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on...

'Genealogy, Archive, Image' addresses the ways in which history and tradition are 'reinvented' through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over the longue durée, from the eleventh to twentieth...

Exquisitely photographed by Jane Ussher, Woolsheds takes readers to historic sheep stations in the North and South islands, and explores the rich histories of this key primary industry that are contained in their heritage shearing sheds.From the oldest working woolshed in Mid Canterbury to...

The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. Australia's part in these challenges and changes is borne of our domestic and global ties, our orientation towards ourselves...

This book thoroughly renews past educational thoughts and teaching methods, standing as a revolutionary and definitive historical epic in the system of education. With this work, the progressive journey of human educational philosophy reaches its culmination, allowing for a moment of rest. The Secularized...

This book serves as a general introduction to food science and technology, based on the academic courses presented by the authors as well as their personal research experiences. The authors' main focus is on the biological and physical-chemical stabilization of food, and the quality...

Food production and consumption processes are largely governed via control mechanisms that affect food accessibility and environmental efficiency. Food resource marginalization, inequality, and deleterious consumption urgently require new governance and developmental systems that will provide food security and create consumption patterns that protect the...

Saving our Black and Brown young men is not an option. We must, and they must be taught how to save themselves. Melodie Yarber-Rhodes, M.A. has created a tool to assist them and those who love them.Nations have been built with their backs and...

As a nation, we're not always big on introspection. To move forward, however, we must look inward. We must hold this nation up to a mirror and acknowledge what it's become. We must make a sober assessment. How did a country that so aligns...

--WHAT MAKES A TERRORIST? --HOW DOES ATROCIOUS MADNESS DEVELOP? --WHAT TURNS A HUMAN BEING INTO A MONSTER-BEAST? Some answers to these questions lie in the human proclivity to worship the finite, to project and serve idols . . . and thus to bring destruction...

Often portrayed as an aloof philosopher, Louis Althusser's work on Niccolo Machiavelli reveals Althusser's deep commitment to political practice. Seeking to challenge the prevailing views on Althusser, Mikko Lahtinen argues that the French thinker cannot be understood from a purely philosophical perspective.Author: Mikko LahtinenISBN-10:...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered...

This aims at tying trust to knowledge management (KM). It highlights the complexity of the invisible phenomenon of trust challenged by the global economy. Fresh insights, novel theoretical frameworks, and empirical results and ideas for future research are presented that differ from those since...

This collection originated in, and is, an interdisciplinary dialogue. The subject of conversation is the social sciences in the twentieth century and the role of large-scale philanthropy, using Rockefeller philanthropy in particular as a case study. The intention is to draw a much needed...

In the past decade, psychology has increasingly acknowledged the importance of considering the role of culture for understanding human development. One of the major issues now confronting those interested in this issue is how cultural meanings, values, and practices are appropriated by persons growing...

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways to examine how new situations are created through computer use. It contains some of the very first...

Dr. Cynthia K. West examines the intersection of information technologies, power, people, and bodies. Informed by more than ten years as a digerati in Silicon Valley and a political theorist, she offers a unique perspective on the direction in which information technologies are leading...

Who's afraid of for-profit education? Those who work in non-profit or government owned and operated schools. Many parents and other stakeholders have been made fearful by this education establishment. What's more important to humans: nutrition or education? Nutrition is more important because it is...

Would you believe Fijian bedbugs have spiritual lessons to teach us? Did you know that monkeys actually hate bananas? That having a run away groom could actually be a good thing? And that God always has a bigger plan for us than we have...

This is a statistical study designed to analyze the trend of illiteracy in the United States and its present relation to sex, age, urban and rural environment, race and nationality, and school systems, together with its quantitative effect on the selected factors of birth-rate,...

The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry.Author: Joel DeshayeISBN-10: 1442646616ISBN-13: 9781442646612Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2013Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Banksy is known worldwide for his politically subversive works of art, but he is far from the only artist whose creations are infused with internationally relevant, activist themes. How else can the arts help activate citizen participation in social justice movements? Moreover, what is...

Are you seeking the perfect mentor or life adviser--an ideal guide, no matter what the challenge? This book provides a unique and new road map for a modern world, demonstrating that the wisdom we seek surrounds us at every turn. As a professional speaker...

That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not newAuthor: Jaan ValsinerISBN-10: 1412851912ISBN-13: 9781412851916Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2013Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d

Title: A testimony against several prophane and superstitious customs, now practised by some in New-England: the evil whereof is evinced from the Holy Scriptures, and from the writings both of ancient and modern divines.Author: Increase MatherPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's...

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...

Addresses a variety of challenges and solutions within the transportation security sphere in order to protect our transportation systems- Provides innovative solutions to improved communication and creating joint operations centers to manage response to threats- Details technological measures to protect our transportation infrastructure, and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The story of Malala and her struggles is gripping; this account is a work of poetry by Lyn Lifshin, an important American poet. This is not journalism, rather it is a work that is best suited for poetry, a deeply personal work where the...

This book explores the concept of S-Risks, or suffering risks, and delves into their significance, distinguishing them from conspiracy theories and alarmism. It categorizes S-Risks into agential, natural, and incidental types, discussing the disjunctive nature and various factors influencing them. Examining technological progress, the...

A chronological overview from the end of World War II to 1990. This work gives a broad analysis of the major changes, strategies, and situations that helped shape diplomatic and economic relations between the two nations.Author: Masaya ShiraishiISBN-10: 0877271224ISBN-13: 9780877271222Publisher: Southeast Asia Program PublicationsLanguage:...

Medicaid is the primary means for providing medical care to the nation's indigent and disabled populations. Almost 13 percent of all Americans received some form of medical coverage, such as physician services or long-term care, through Medicaid in the early 1990s. The costs continue...

Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly...

In this book Mark L. Haas explores the major political consequences of the Arab Spring protests in North Africa and the Middle East as well as how and why US leaders responded to these developments. A detailed examination of the threats and opportunities to...

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the...

The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers' wages rose, their purchasing power grew, and their economic expectations increased -- with little help...

Sian Lewis explores the role of news and information in shaping Greek society from the sixth to the fourth centuries, b.c. Applying ideas from the study of modern media to her analysis of the functions of gossip, travel, messengers, inscriptions, and institutions in the...

The postwar miracle, says John Price, made Japan and its corporations the toast of the global village, with scholars across the United States pointing to Japan as the model for future enterprise. The economic bubble burst, however, in 1989, and Price documents difficulties that...

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method offers the first systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research.Author: Marianne W. Jorgensen,Louise J. PhillipsISBN-10: 0761971114ISBN-13: 9780761971115Publisher: Sage Publications LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2002Pages: 230Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

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 work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Some four years after the wedding of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov in the splendor of the Kremlin, two obscure political convicts--Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) and Nadezhda Krupskaya--were married in Siberia. Twenty years later Lenin and Krupskaya were themselves living in the Kremlin, and the royal...

Historians of Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States provide a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and make comparisons across societies and over time.Author: Seth KovenISBN-10: 0415903149ISBN-13: 9780415903141Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/1993Pages: 460Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 8.94h x 6.03w x 1.03d

This first-of-its kind encyclopedia based on original research offers in-depth profiles showing how a broad spectrum of 121 important nongovernmental organizations in the health field work to affect the development of federal legislation and policy. A brief introduction provides a historical context for current...

The multidisciplinary nature of the field of aging and the sheer volume of published material make researching and keeping current with new developments in the field quite difficult. This reference book offers comprehensive strategies for accessing information on the psychological, social, biological, and medical...

The book is timely, and the arguments easy to follow . . . extensive references accompany each title. Choice A most valuable overview of the responses of the housing sector in different countries to changing local priorities. This volume clearly demonstrates the substantial and...