Social Science category: 175800 books
Mentorship, Leadership, and Research
Their Place within the Social Science Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
This insightful volume details the implementation and challenges of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), developed in the UK to ensure equal access to higher education for all social classes. It posits that a modern higher education institution requires a robust set of mechanisms - specifically...
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
According to Wikipedia.com, "Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. Together...
by Thorstein Veblen
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
On its original publication in 1919, The Place of Science in Modern Civilization was recognized as a major contribution, and today Veblen continues to command attention and respect. This volume includes some of his most seminal work, essays that have critical, almost devastating implications for capitalist...
The Social Atom
Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political theory be valid? The...
Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
How do we define compassion? Is it an emotional state, a motivation, a dispositional trait, or a cultivated attitude? How does it compare to altruism and empathy? Chapters in this Handbook present critical scientific evidence about compassion in numerous conceptions. All of these approaches to thinking...
Could It Happen Here?
Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.
Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right,...
The National Urban League, 100 Years of Empowering Communities
Ruth Standish Baldwin and George Edmund Haynes, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Ruth Standish Baldwin came from a family of early New England colonists with a history of social activism. The Baldwins were deeply concerned about the poor and disadvantaged. The health and welfare of Negro migrants were their particular interest. Mr. Baldwin, William Henry Baldwin, Jr., was an active...
by Caroline Skehill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter
Pop Culture and Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
"America's most interesting and important essayist." —Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight
"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important,...
The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
A Critical History of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of...
The Social Contract
or, Principles of Political Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights (French: Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face...
Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest
Between Control and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms into broader practices of organizing and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates. This comprehensive collection brings together research for...