Social Science category: 175800 books
Global Citizens
Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the protests from Seattle to Genoa, have captured media headlines. But media headlines leave key questions unanswered,...
Dangerous Digestion
The Politics of American Dietary Advice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems. Discussions of American freedom itself are pervaded with ingestive metaphors of choice (what to put in) and control (what to keep out). From the country’s...
On Fact and Fraud
Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist's ethical misstep isn't always clear. On Fact and Fraud looks at actual cases in which fraud was committed or alleged, explaining...
by Julie Cupples
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Latin America’s diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and as a place in which the global debt crisis has had some of its most lasting and devastating...
Climate Actions
Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Climate change remains a challenge that needs to be addressed at its core, particularly the rapid reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This book discusses strategies for climate actions by synthesizing insights from a set of international ‘contemporary social action group’s’...
Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society
Integrating health, environment and society
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food...
Publics, Politics and Power
Remaking the Public in Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
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"Very stimulating and intellectually exciting. In fact, I think it is one of the best books I have read for a long time." - Professor Carsten Greve, International centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business...
by Scott R. (Robert) Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences, by Scott R. Harris, is a brief, introductory book that provides readers with a step-by-step guide to reading and understanding a social science research article. The author demonstrates the many strengths of social research, including its advantages...
Critical Supervision for the Human Services
A Social Model to Promote Learning and Value-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and success are too often defined primarily by key performance indicators and strategic outcomes. Tensions arise when such pressures conflict with helping professionals'...
Investigating the Social World
The Process and Practice of Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
In this Ninth Edition, award-winning author Russell K. Schutt continues to make the field come alive with current, compelling examples of high quality research and the latest innovations in research methodology, along with a clear and comprehensive introduction to the logic and techniques of social...
Constructing Social Research
The Unity and Diversity of Method
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Constructing Social Research answers the question: What is social science? Updated throughout with new references and examples, the Third Edition of this innovative text by Charles C. Ragin and Lisa M. Amoroso shows the unity within the diversity of activities called social research to help students...
Absent Citizens
Disability Politics and Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic...
From Bin Laden to Facebook
10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Maria A Ressa has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal (High-Profile Journalist Reshapes Her Role in Terrorism Fight) and Channel NewsAsia (Terrorism Goes Online)
The two most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia — a Malaysian and a Singaporean — are on the run in the Philippines,...
by Matthias Benzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough English-language account of Adorno's sociological thinking. Matthias Benzer reads Adorno's sociology through...