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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do we hold onto friends and communities in a world that feels increasingly fragmented? This timely collection explores how social conne……続きを見る

Rationing: it's a wordーand ideaーthat people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to "shouting an obscenity in church." Yet soc……続きを見る

A revelatory and optimistic new book from health journalist Dr David Cox, examining the staggering impact of diet on ageing – and what we can do to reverse it. Most of us are ageing prematurely beca……続きを見る

Moltitudini è un'indagine affascinante del ruolo della collettività nella formazione della società moderna. Hancox esplora il potere trasformativo delle masse, viste come ideale democratico, raccont……続きを見る

As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the question of how AI can empower humans over the long term has become increasingly important. This book, Human-AI Empowerment (HAIE), provides a timely ex……続きを見る

This book provides a description of what a good human service organization is, and what it does. The author relies on a broad framework to define “good” and offers a fictional account as a methodolo……続きを見る

A beautiful and timeless memoir about family in all its forms, from television documentary director, Rebecca Coxon. ‘My family tree is not simple; my lineage is not linear. There are the branches we……続きを見る

What if doubt, hesitation and ambivalence weren’t barriers to activism but powerful tools for change? Challenging the idea that activism is fuelled only by anger or hope, this bold collection explor……続きを見る

This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. From quickening through to confinement, giving……続きを見る

This book aims to address the copyright issues surrounding VGs and to balance the interests of the various stakeholders (in both legal and social contexts) in order to promote the sustainable develo……続きを見る

First published in 1976, Interwar Britain presents a highly readable and up-to-date account of a crucial period in modern British history. The major economic and social issues, ranging from economic……続きを見る

This volume includes Ford Madox Ford's The Soul of London, The Heart of the Country, and The Spirit of the People. Published between 1905 and 1907, this trilogy investigates the changing culture of ……続きを見る

The book offers a multidimensional exploration of the interplay between digital technologies and individual well-being. Spanning diverse disciplines such as psychology, education, social sciences, a……続きを見る

The Last Living Slut is the salaciously literary and sexually liberated account of one young woman’s transition from traditionally-raised Iranian to rock and roll groupie for Guns N Roses, Motley Cr……続きを見る

« Trouver sa place de grand-parent, cela demande d’avoir réfléchi au temps et à l’énergie que l’on est prêt à consacrer à ses petits-enfants, de marquer ses limites comme d’accepter celles que mette……続きを見る

AI for Knowledge explores the question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming knowledge access and creation for the good. AI is accelerating our access to knowledge through search, ……続きを見る

This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means t……続きを見る

Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authorsーsome eminent, some less well knownーwho grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Thei……続きを見る

Das Buch behandelt die Zuwanderung und Integration von Ausländern in Deutschland und Russland. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Auseinandersetzung mit den drei wichtigsten und aktuellsten Problematiken der ……続きを見る

ePUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines how and why experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain varied according to ethnicity. Drawing from the Evidence……続きを見る

This book examines violence and sexuality after Freud. Its characters, though, are not women and men, but rather animals and children. Focusing on three famous Freudian cases in which little boys ha……続きを見る

Despite the surge of women into university, jobs and sitting in federal parliament, why are men still overwhelmingly running the show? Fewer women are running governments, and the small proportion w……続きを見る

Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insi……続きを見る

Het sociale is voor de mens wat water is voor de vis. Het is levensnoodzakelijk en tegelijk zo vanzelfsprekend dat we er ons niet van bewust zijn. Het vraagt verbeelding om het sociale te onderzoeke……続きを見る

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of "honor" abuse, violence, and killings from a psychological perspective. Written by a leading authority on the subject, the b……続きを見る

Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe. This book examines and identifies variations in independent advocacy provision ……続きを見る

“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always ……続きを見る

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are b……続きを見る

Visions of the future of the internet beyond Web 2.0 are proliferating, as immersion and augmentation of social practices through the metaverse begin to define a new frontier of sociality and our di……続きを見る

This volume follows one man’s revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina’s death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education. ……続きを見る