Society & culture: general books

John Ruskin's critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his time, established him as a leading...  Read More >>

This book explores the phenomenon of internalized homonegativity among same gender loving Black men and provides...  Read More >>

This book examines interfaith dialogue in Europe and how interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practiced....  Read More >>

This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from...  Read More >>

This volume showcases different forms of natural and nonprofessional translation and interpreting at work at multilingual...  Read More >>

Considering the interactions between developments in open data and data journalism, Data for Journalism offers an...  Read More >>

Iwasaki analyses the state of Japanese politics using the established analytical framework of presidentialization...  Read More >>

This book explores the so-called ""British Invasion"" of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role...  Read More >>

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making includes methods and tools for modeling and solving complex problems. MCDM has become...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking...  Read More >>

The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity...  Read More >>

This book interrogates the significance of the revival and reformulation of the romance genre in the postmillennial...  Read More >>

This book provides a critical account of the impact of Twitter on journalism, exploring how the news media has adapted...  Read More >>

This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for managers and policy-makers as well as researchers interested...  Read More >>

After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, ‘Carla’ was detained for two years inside...  Read More >>

Through a series of studies, this book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist. Looking beyond the...  Read More >>

This book explores the stereotype that Japan is the world’s most polite country, examining how proper conduct is...  Read More >>

Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore,...  Read More >>

This volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation,...  Read More >>

Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts...  Read More >>

Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of comics through their...  Read More >>

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is...  Read More >>

This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism’s tendency to present complex social issues...  Read More >>

The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such...  Read More >>

This book explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual...  Read More >>