Sociology & anthropology books

By exploring the secrets of Kubrick's filmography, the author, who describes himself as the ""anti-Harari,"" reveals...  Read More >>

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

A highly entertaining romp through sporting history's best sins and greatest sinners. WHERE THERE'S SPORT, THERE'S...  Read More >>

Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular...  Read More >>

Boys Don't Cry, Girls Can't Throw shows how athletes' experiences are not only relevant to us all, but have unparalleled...  Read More >>

This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century.  Read More >>

Examining anticorruption battles and transparency laws to ask: what makes for good governance, and can it limit...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sociology is the first encyclopaedic presentation of the research into...  Read More >>

Using a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive...  Read More >>

This is one of the first single-authored books to utilise Critical Disability Studies and the lens of embodiment...  Read More >>

Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related...  Read More >>

The aim of this edited collection is to address the complex realities and values expressed through the research...  Read More >>

Preparing public administration students for practice, this textbook simplifies statistics without compromising...  Read More >>

The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping’s...  Read More >>

This handbook explores those occasions when the police are faced with a public, national, or international crises,...  Read More >>

This thought-provoking book invites readers to reflect on their own beliefs and consider the universal quest for...  Read More >>

""Timeless Taboos: The Evolution of Superstitions Across Cultures"" is an exploration into the fascinating world...  Read More >>

Discover the secrets to building a resilient, harmonious, and loving family in ""The Family Connection: Understanding...  Read More >>

This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a worldview — that guides many of our actions in concrete...  Read More >>

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A sobering look at the seductive power of fascist ideas for the young Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe...  Read More >>

By asking what childhood and ageing research can learn from each other, this edited volume brings both fields into...  Read More >>

A unique study of 21st century migration politics across West and East Europe and Russia. Linda Cook compares contemporary...  Read More >>

This manual provides students in academic lab courses with hands-on experience of the major processes of forensic...  Read More >>