HABO - Social & Cultural Studies 1

A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash……続きを見る

Béji Caïd Essebsi, président de la République tunisienne, se confie à la journaliste Arlette Chabot sur les défis que doit relever son pays pour préserver la démocratie en terre d'islam. Un témoigna……続きを見る

" Le checkpoint incarne l'occupation, il la symbolise, il la manifeste. Chaque passage rappelle aux Palestiniens de H2 [à Hébron] qu'ils sont soumis au pouvoir des militaires, qu'ils sont occupés ; ……続きを見る

One of the most fundamental questions for social scientists involves diffusion events; simply put, how do ideas spread and why do people embrace them? In Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector ……続きを見る

South Africa remains a global leader in the legislative protection of individuals who engage in same-sex relations, and is the only country in Africa where the rights of these individuals are explic……続きを見る

Game Changer By: Erhabor Ighodaro Life is a game and we all are players. Some may be unaware of their role in the game and may in fact be oblivious to the game being played. You are either a player ……続きを見る

The rise of the multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry points to one immutable truth about us as human beings: we want to know where we come from and who our ancestors were. John H. Relethfo……続きを見る

Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storytelling itself help to define social, cultural and p……続きを見る

This book focuses on income inequality, output-inflation trade-off and economic policy uncertainty in South Africa. Tight monetary and macroprudential policies raise income inequality. Income inequa……続きを見る

One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work explores a crucial question: how does democracy, w……続きを見る

Michael Chabon, author of WONDER BOYS and the Pulitzer Prize-wining THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, has written an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his n……続きを見る

A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS. MAPS AND LEGENDS is a love song in sixteen part……続きを見る

Azerbaijan's Soviet and post-Soviet political history has been tumultuous and varied, particularly with regard to the struggle for independence, democracy and sovereignty. Suha Bolukbasi here illust……続きを見る

The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the re……続きを見る

By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation pathways as part of their stories’ politics of meaning-……続きを見る

This monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a worldwide perspective. After many……続きを見る

This book examines how the Calais Jungle posed and addressed the European Question. The issue of who and what counts as European was articulated through this makeshift camp. The book argues that the……続きを見る

" Une gare, c'est un lieu où on croise les gens qui réussissent et les gens qui ne sont rien. " " Lorsque j'ai entendu cette déclaration d'Emmanuel Macron, j'ai tout de suite su qu'elle ciblait les ……続きを見る

CONFETTIREGEN is een prachtig, ontwapenend en ontroerend verhaal over een jongen genaamd Wobie die opgroeit in een warme en veilige omgeving. Als in een sprookjeswereld. Eenmaal op school komt hij e……続きを見る

This book is a visual guide to the territorial dynamics operating within a territory. The reading of such dynamics is fundamental in understanding the role of food in cities. This atlas provides a r……続きを見る

The first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. Since its publication over 10……続きを見る

Dans la décharge publique de La Mecque, la Mère des Cités, des éboueurs asiatiques découvrent le cadavre d'une jeune femme d'une grande beauté. Crime crapuleux, d'honneur, ou vengeance ? Le capitain……続きを見る

The incredible memoir from one of India’s most uncompromising police officers. Meeran Chadha Borwankar graduated from India’s National Police Academy as the sole woman of its 1981 batch. From there,……続きを見る

In the twenty-first century, governments around the world began to engage the private sector with the objective of achieving public service delivery targets, and the African continent has as such, b……続きを見る

As the days carry on, leading us to another special day of the year used to celebrate Africa, I remember a speech made by a now former president of one of Africa’s great countries. Honestly, it feel……続きを見る

This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and ……続きを見る

In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to ……続きを見る

How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King’s “pilgrimage to nonviolence” or favorable ……続きを見る

Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles - as……続きを見る

Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases ……続きを見る