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Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press). 続きを見る

As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indi……続きを見る

Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples ……続きを見る

Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical rene……続きを見る

In this book, Drucilla Cornell examines the crisis on the left and asks how we can turn back toward more left-wing ideals. She looks at the meaning of freedom through various lenses as well as the d……続きを見る

As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation’s most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the beaut……続きを見る

This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case stud……続きを見る

This book brings the emerging fields of practical theology and theology of the arts into a dialogue beyond the bias of modern systematic and constructive theology. The authors draw upon postmodern, ……続きを見る

Sport and those who run it have an important duty to ensure the safety and wellbeing of young participants. This text presents the findings of a unique research project into the experiences of a wid……続きを見る

The theme permeating this book on assessment centers is "continuity and change", describing what has remained the same and what has changed in the 50-year history of the assessment center method. On……続きを見る

Renewable Energy normally refers to usable energy sources that are an alternative to fuel sources, but without the negatively evaluated consequences of the replaced fuels. Although energy issues hav……続きを見る

Presenting a pragmatic mixture of science, landscape ecology, ecosystem management, sociology, policy development and methods for transforming social and institutional cultures. Bioregional Planning……続きを見る

College and university faculty are asked to serve an increasingly diverse and at-risk population of students. They face disruptive and dangerous behaviors that range from speaking out of turn or mis……続きを見る

" Il faut changer de société ", dit-on souvent, et on a bien raison. Mais, pour y parvenir, il faut d'abord s'efforcer de changer la notion même de société, et distinguer deux définitions du social.……続きを見る

Depuis l'Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), ce livre réunit les contributions de plus d'une vingtaine de spécialistes, fins connaisseurs de la Syrie et de la région. De façon très accessible……続きを見る

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Mary Joe Frug charts a course for future feminist thinking about law. She identifies the political and theoretical limitations of earlier strands of legal feminism and demonstrates why postmodernism……続きを見る

Challenging sweatshop labor practices is extremely difficult, but garment workers, labor unions, and non-government organizations from Central America and the United States have successfully mobiliz……続きを見る

Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In f……続きを見る

Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes. Policy rhetoric freq……続きを見る

Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling i……続きを見る

First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of eight in the Sociology of the Soviet Union series. Written in 1945, this is a a study about the social background and development of Soviet Legal theor……続きを見る

Praise for New Documentary: 'It's refreshing to find a book that cuts through the tired old debates that have surrounded documentary film and television. It heralds a welcome new approach.' Sight an……続きを見る

The past decade has been a period of excessive fiuctuation fluctuation in the distribution and exerciseof exercise of power power in in Jordan, Jordan, and and the the land land and and the the peop……続きを見る

Transitional societiesーstruggling to build democratic institutions and new political traditionsーare faced with a painful dilemma. How can Government become strong and effective, building a common ……続きを見る

The Japanese economy is the second largest in the world and is becoming once more one of the most competitive. Despite the stagnation and deflation experienced during the 1990s, Japan has progressiv……続きを見る

From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with i……続きを見る

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 i……続きを見る

Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This book studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing……続きを見る

Help your marital therapy clients become more supportive of their partners! As a therapist, you see many unhappy couples who long for the loving support that used to be the touchstone of their relat……続きを見る