Society & culture: general books

This book offers a detailed understanding of ‘enemy images’, which are used in political rhetoric to dehumanize...  Read More >>

For four decades, Vivienne Silver-Brody has collected photographs of Palestine/Eretz Israel taken from the nineteenth...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs the wedding song tradition in Ancient Greece, and looks at how the wedding song tradition...  Read More >>

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This is the first book to systematically examine the full cost of labour migration, and is intended as a primer...  Read More >>

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? Bringing together a number of cutting...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of papers reflecting the latest advances in geographic research on health, disease, and...  Read More >>

This edited volume comprises empirical and theoretical research on Makiguchi Tsunesaburo’s educational philosophy...  Read More >>

In her study of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers...  Read More >>

This collection includes a wide-ranging set of essays exploring how the media (from art cinema to online social...  Read More >>

The book deals with the dilemmas of multiculturalism (broadly defined) in accommodating both cultural practices...  Read More >>

This book examines the role of media in the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Traversing nations and media formats, contributors...  Read More >>

This collection explores a range of case studies of transcultural memory as well as theorising the mobility of memory...  Read More >>

Theorizing Social Class and Education presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education...  Read More >>

Given this variation in the context of global ageing as a backdrop, this edited book focuses on three overarching...  Read More >>

Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex...  Read More >>

This collection engages with the close relationship between dissociative disorders and individual and societal oppression,...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the recruitment of German Jewish scholars and academicians by the Turkish Republic shortly...  Read More >>

This book breaks new ground in disability scholarship, southern...  Read More >>

Contemporary migration has transformed the institution of citizenship in the Americas. This book examines the reasons...  Read More >>

The theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of ‘Mobilities’. The chapters represent...  Read More >>

This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and...  Read More >>

This book aims to show the social and economic consequences of a model of economic growth based on massive investments...  Read More >>

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries, has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature....  Read More >>