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Social Criticism
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada's foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fact, Leacock was a professor of political economy, and more than half of his writings addressed the pressing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In recent times, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their...
by Jonathan Marks
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural...
Movements in the City
Conflict in the European Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
For 2nd and 3rd year courses in urban sociology, sociology of exclusion, social stratification, planning and cultural studies in departments of sociology and urban geography. This book provides an in depth examination of social movements and urban life in European cities today. Unique in its interdisciplinary...
Megacity Slums
Social Exclusion, Space and Urban Policies in Brazil and India
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues. In Delhi, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the challenges they pose have spurred public actors into...
by Hilary N. Weaver
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...
Structural Lie
Small Clues to Global Things
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Structural Lie tackles one of social science's most mysterious problems. How is it possible to derive statements about the grand structures of social life from their effects in the small movements of everyday life? Prominent sociologist Charles Lemert shows how Marx and Freud provide some answers...
Human Rights and Social Work
Towards Rights-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is...
Evolutions
Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of Altruism
We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart...
Complete Homeschool Social Science
Lessons and Quizzes from First Grade to Sixth Grade
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This book is a collection of Home School Brews bestselling social science series. It covers grades 1 to 6. Each book may also be purchased separately.
In the Nature of Cities
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social,...
Sensing Cities
Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon...
Indo-Malay Martial Traditions
Aesthetics, Mysticism, & Combatives, Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Many Indo-Malay martial arts are kept private, taught in secluded areas away from the public. These are arts of the older tradition, developed when combative knowledge was valued for its use in protecting the sanctity of life. This two-volume anthology brings together a great...
Anthropology and Cryptozoology
Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However,...