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Population - Dandelion is an essay about movements that are against the social structures whether it be government, organizations, schools or religion. These social structures also referred to as ma……続きを見る

Em 13 de junho de 2013, o fotógrafo Sérgio Silva foi alvejado no olho por uma bala de borracha da Polícia Militar enquanto cobria um protesto no centro de São Paulo. Perdeu a visão na mesma hora. Ci……続きを見る

Discover the forgotten story of Mary Mallonーthe real Typhoid Maryーin this humanizing portrait offering a window into the ethical dilemmas of public health policy that continue to haunt us in the C……続きを見る

Do you want to see how things got so corrupt, so fast? Would you understand the ethics your kids are taught in school? Want to look behind the curtain at the workings of our cultural confusion? This……続きを見る

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing p……続きを見る

The main objective of the tool is to propose a harmonized, objective and consensual basis to analyse the performance of a national food control system. It is intended to be used by countries as a su……続きを見る

The guidelines have been brought in line with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), and where the GHS allows for (national) interpretation of ……続きを見る

Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. T……続きを見る

Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretica……続きを見る

In the realm of international relations, there are seemingly few states like North Korea. Whether it is the country’s human rights situation, its precarious everyday life or its so-called foreign po……続きを見る

The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to some of the major points of debate in the media toda……続きを見る

Across Europe concern is rising over the disintegration of social relations and the growing number of people who are being socially excluded. social Exclustoin in European Cities, the first major st……続きを見る

Foreword G. J. D'Angio The journals of explorers like Scott of the Antarctic or Burton of Africa make very interesting reading. It is fascinating to follow the course of these determined, intrepid i……続きを見る

Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between ric……続きを見る

Dr. Gonzo: A series of loosely related essays on equality, visibility, and modern mental health, or, How the Mental Health System Drove Me Crazy, details Dr. Deb Hoag's efforts to provide effective ……続きを見る

Aquí Castellani en la plenitud de su vida intelectual, derrochando lucidez, asombrosa erudición, talento sintético, manejo literario, conocimientos teológicos, filosóficos y científicos... este es u……続きを見る

This book is a collection of essays written during the 1980s and 1990s, generated as parts of other, larger activist efforts going on at the time. Read together, the essays trace the progress of the……続きを見る

Trata do sistema de instituições jurídicas e políticas de proteção social, com o objetivo central de apresentar ao leitor o padrão latino-americano de Seguridade Social, analisando suas origens, for……続きを見る

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller. A powerful and extraordinary novel about the unlikely friendship between two exceptional women during the last years of slavery in the US. From the celebrated au……続きを見る

What are the social and cultural features that have the most impact on the interpretation of the legal standard, “best interest of the child”? One method for answering this question is through a com……続きを見る

The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival ……続きを見る

Le generazioni invecchiano e i problemi sociali aumentano. Scopriamo gli strumenti giusti per affrontarli anche con il gratuito patrocinio: l'Amministrazione di sostegno in implementazione ad interd……続きを見る

Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media pl……続きを見る

This book was written to provide resource materials for teachers to use in their introductory or intermediate statistics class. The chapter content is ordered along the lines of many popular statist……続きを見る

Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of ……続きを見る

This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe……続きを見る

Bringing together the work of economists and sociologists in research programmes in a number of European institutions concerned with development, this collection analyses how social institutions con……続きを見る

Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's "Radio Times" Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turnin……続きを見る

First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of wom……続きを見る

John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of anthropology,……続きを見る