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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book examines the role of economic violence (violations of economic and social rights, corruption, and plunder of natural resources) within the transitional justice agenda. Because economic violence often leads to conflict, is perpetrated during conflict, and continues afterwards...
by Sharon Tettegah, Wenhao David Huang
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Emotions, Technology, and Digital Games explores the need for people to experience enjoyment, excitement, anxiety, anger, frustration, and many other emotions. The book provides essential information on why it is necessary to have a greater understanding of the power these emotions have on players,...
Crime and Crime Reduction
The importance of group processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The problems associated with groups that commit crime are well known and notoriously complex. However, there are many questions that we still cannot answer with certainty. This book seeks to deepen understanding of the group processes involved in crime and the treatment of offenders’ thoughts and...
Strength Through Peace
How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World can Learn From a Tiny, Tropical Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department of Education. Socially, Costa Rica is a success story. Although 94th in the world for GDP, it is in the top 10...
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Multicultural Competency
A Contextual Approach to Sociocultural Diversity in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In recent years, mindfulness and acceptances-based therapies have gained immense popularity in the field of behavioral health. And as these therapeutic models have proliferated, their teachings and practices have been introduced to a wide range of diverse applications.
Cognitive behavioral...
Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia
The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gender and kinship in Australia, which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that underlies kinship practices...
The Psychopath Factory
How Capitalism Organizes Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy examines how the requirements, stimuli, affects and environments of work condition our empathy. In some cases, work calls for no empathy – characters who don’t blink or flinch in the face of danger nor crack under pressure. In other cases,...
Friction
How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
This accessible book identifies twelve mechanisms of political radicalization that can move individuals, groups, and the masses to increased sympathy and support for political violence. Terrorism is an extreme form of radicalization, and the book describes pathways to terrorism to demonstrate the...
The Off-Modern
Psychology Estranged
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Society is undergoing a process of deep change and transformation as the neoliberal order moves into crisis. Contemporary psychology, mired in exceptionalism and individualism, fails to address this broader context and continues with a fragmented reductionist approach which is alienating to students...
Emotional Lives
Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Emotional Lives explores the changes in emotional cultures that have taken place during the last half century and continue to affect people's identities today. These changes are driven by the culture of consumerism in contemporary post-industrial society and by the emergence of new ideas about public...
The Spiral of Silence
New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world. Attracting...
The Social Net
Understanding our online behavior
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
In the past two decades, the Internet has come to dominate every aspect of everyday life. This has been a huge change for many of us, and, for the younger generation - born into this situation - there has been no other way of living. How does this new way of life affect our health and happiness, our...
Interaction Ritual
Essays in Face-to-Face Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a study of face-to-face interaction in natural settings, that class of events which occurs during co-presence and by virtue of co-presence....
Book Review: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The secrets of subconscious decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is an engaging, thought-provoking look at the factors that influence our subconscious decision-making...