ROCK - Social & Cultural Studies 1

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world……続きを見る

L'augmentation des inégalités est-elle également observée dans notre pays ? Quelle est l'influence de l'inflation et des prix de l'immobilier sur les inégalités ? Les jeunes sont-ils plus désavantag……続きを見る

Neemt ook in ons land de ongelijkheid toe? Wat is de invloed van inflatie en woningprijzen op ongelijkheid? Zijn jongeren er slechter aan toe dan ouderen? Uit meerdere studies blijkt dat België het ……続きを見る

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. Th……続きを見る

An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and d……続きを見る

Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and recons……続きを見る

Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliantーbut accessibleーideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? ……続きを見る

Thebes offers a scholarly survey of the history and archaeology of the city, from 1600 BCE – 476 CE. Discussions of major developments in politics, war, society and culture form the basis of a chron……続きを見る

Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes cont……続きを見る

El país se desmoronó día a día, durante seis años. Hoy pagamos las consecuencias. El sexenio pasado es recordado por su rastro de corruptelas, omisiones, opacidad y complicidades. Enrique Peña Nieto……続きを見る

Paul Rock began studying sociological criminology in 1961 and his intellectual history has run parallel to and in conversation with the evolution of the discipline over that long period. He became a……続きを見る

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with ……続きを見る

“This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud.”ーChelsea Handler A chaotically joyous collection of essays from one of the original influencers and the internet's sweetheart, Bretman……続きを見る

HOW GOOD ARE YOU IN BED? MAKE YOUR PARTNER LOVE YOU MORE BY KNOWING WHAT HE WANTS EVEN BEFORE HE ASKS. LEARN HOW A WOMAN FUCKS HER MAN!!! So you would like to find out how to make his toes curl, his……続きを見る

This critical text is a timely ethnography of how global powers, local resistance, and capital flows are shaping contemporary African foodways. Ghana was one of the first countries targeted by a gro……続きを見る

Using an elite consensus/conflict analytical frame, this book examines why some majority Muslim countries perform so much better at democracy and/or development than others, questioning received wis……続きを見る

Sizzling Romances from Mills & Boon! Rivalry at Play Nadine Gonzalez ‘It’s your move. Go ahead and finish me.’ Lawyer Alexandra doesn’t play games, but entrepreneur Jackson brings out her competitiv……続きを見る

Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practicesーpraying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segr……続きを見る

Since the 1930s, appeasement has been labeled as a futile and possibly dangerous policy. In this landmark study, Stephen Rock seeks to restore appeasement to its proper place as a legitimateーand po……続きを見る

Getting growth going has been rare in the developing world-since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth. The aim of Dictators, Democrats and Development in Sout……続きを見る

In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art schoolーand his path to healing. In 19……続きを見る

This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo. The author examines how Sephardim belonging to three different generations in Sarajevo deal with the challe……続きを見る

Volume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales traces, for the first time, the genesis and early evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice system, t……続きを見る

Volume I of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales frames what was known about crime and criminal justice in the 1960s, before describing the liberalising legislation of the d……続きを見る

Shamanism can be described as a group of techniques by which its practitioners enter the “spirit world,” purportedly obtaining information that is used to help and to heal members of their social gr……続きを見る

Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Marcus Baynes-Rock see……続きを見る

The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The e……続きを見る

In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex wa……続きを見る

Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan o……続きを見る

This collection examines the ambiguous relationship be-tween the politically mute, average drug user and the small number, socially distant from the common user, who started the work of undermining ……続きを見る