This text examines the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-a-vis post-Qing China's ethnic minorities, and explores the role they played in the formation of contemporary China's Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security.
"Saudi Arabia, homeland of Osama bin Laden and many 9/11 hijackers, is widely considered to be the heartland of radical Islamism. For decades, the conservative and oil-rich kingdom contributed recruits, ideologues and money to jihadi groups worldwide. Yet Islamism within Saudi A…
Providing guidance on how to apply a version of solution-focused therapy tailored to the public service environment, this text also describes a range of real-life situations across a range of settings.
This text provides an accessible guide to well established and contested issues, as well as new concepts emerging through cutting edge research in social gernontology. The entries give concise, lucid knowledge on what constitutes the 'building blocks' of social gerontology and s…
This book constiutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2010.
"This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book explores how women initiate agency and espouse liberation and empowerment throu…
This collection of essays helps uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia, such as leisure, popular culture, consumption, sociability and power. This volume attempts to uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialis…
Latinos comprise the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, and this interdisciplinary anthology gathers the scholarship of both early career and senior Latina/o scholars whose work explores the varied and unique latinidades, or Latino cultural identities, of this gr…
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Automated reasoning for security protocol analysis and issues in the theory of security: Joint Workshop, ARSPA-WITS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, …
by Lowe, Gavin, Joint Workshop on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis and Issues in the Theory of Security, Paphos, Cyprus), Armando, Alessandro
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Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not surprising that it has been largely neglected by sociologists and social theorists. While it has long been a central preoccupation of …
Between the two world wars, Germany managed - despite all the political upheavals it was experiencing - to attract extremely large numbers of British travellers and tourists. During the Weimar period in particular, Germany attracted visitors from virtually every section of Briti…
"Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines. Merton's reach can be felt in the study of social structure, social psychology, devi…
Accessibly written and based on the latest research, this book tackles a key issue in contemporary society. Pulling no punches, addiction authority Jim Orford presents evidence that gambling represents a serious danger to public health due to its potential addictiveness.
Daft's textbook contains up-to-date information on organizational theory, supported by case studies and workshop exercises. New cases include AirAsia, Carrefour and Circus Oz.
"In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not fully present in the Hebrew Bible, nor again in the New Testament, or in the early …
Beginning with a framework for understanding the transactions between individual development & the wider environment of the child, this text goes on to discuss key developmental processes & tasks from infancy through middle childhood.