Society & culture: general books

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons)...  Read More >>

Smart Cities: Blockchain-Based Systems, Networks, and Data examines the various components that make up a smart...  Read More >>

Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration...  Read More >>

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This book explores comics as examples of moral outrage against a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent...  Read More >>

Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying extends and enriches the current literature on workplace...  Read More >>

This book analyses a South-to-South connection between media activists and artivists - artists who are activists...  Read More >>

This book investigates various challenges faced by the Engineering sector concerning disruptive technologies and...  Read More >>

Through the translated stories of twenty Tibetan women of various backgrounds, ages and occupations who were alive...  Read More >>

The use of data science and urban analytics has become a defining feature of smart cities. This timely book is a...  Read More >>

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of ""authenticity"" and its consequences...  Read More >>

This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the linkages between climate change and migration in South Asia....  Read More >>

This book brings together established and emerging scholars from around the globe to highlight new directions for...  Read More >>

This book explores the interplay between various semiotic modes in multimodal texts and the ways in which they are...  Read More >>

This edited volume brings together two largely separate fields – organization studies and multimodal social semiotics...  Read More >>

This book analyses the types of and possibilities for care in social work with families in situations where evidence-based...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic and multifaceted overview of urban wellbeing. It explores the characteristics and...  Read More >>

This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBC’s international television news head-to-head, interrogating...  Read More >>

This book presents an overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores the upswelling of popular support...  Read More >>

Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union....  Read More >>

This book explores a variety of themes central to contemporary Marxist thought and its development as a critical...  Read More >>

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational...  Read More >>

This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature....  Read More >>

Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily...  Read More >>