"Brazil has the largest African-descended population in the world outside Africa. Despite an economy founded on slave labor, Brazil has long been renowned as a "racial democracy." Many Brazilians and observers of Brazil continue to maintain that racism there is very mild or none…
In Knowing Our Place over 400 young Australians respond to ideas about belonging, identity and social and political power. The book explores the complex mindsets of young people in their search for identity within the broader society. While the fundamental aim of the book is to …
Information and it are central to virtually every industry in which the United States plays a leadership role--financial services, entertainment engineering, aerospace, medicine, law, agriculture, and dozens of other fields--yet colleges have failed to attract, teach, and produc…
Quality foods, such as traditional, EU certified, organic and health claimed are part of a growing trend towards added value in the agri-food sector. In these foods, elements of production, processing, marketing, agro-tourism and speciality stores are combined. Paramount above a…
Illustrates how leading companies are "mining the unconscious" with remarkable results, and introduces innovative tools and techniques that help marketers.
Every day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and driving, smoking, dru…
This qualitative case study examined 10 Spelman College’s students’ attitude toward its new transgender admissions and enrollment policy, as well as their attitudes toward Spelman’s transgender and gender non-conforming students. This study was guided by Allport’s (1935) Tricomp…
Discrimination and negative attitudes towards homosexual individuals have been widespread among different societies across the years. Religion plays a fundamental role in the development of an individual’s attitude towards homosexuality. One’s religious identity informs the valu…