Sociology
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Nothing Special: The Mostly True, Sometimes Funny Tales of Two Sisters [Paperback]
Dianne Bilyak (Author)
£13.95ISBN: 9780819580290
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: The Driftless Series
Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert with a knack for getting what she wants, while the author, her younger, t... .... Learn More -
An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee [Paperback]
Aram Goudsouzian (Editor); Charles W. McKinney (Editor); Elizabeth Gritter (Other); Brian D. Page (Other); Darius Young (Other)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813153179
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
During the second half of the 19th-century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, ... .... Learn More -
The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community [Hardback]
Randolph Paul Runyon (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780813152387
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
On June 8, 1883, Rev. Elisha Green was traveling by train from Maysville to Paris, Kentucky, when about forty students from the Millersburg Female College crowded onto the train at Millersburg accompanied by George T. Gould, the school's president... .... Learn More -
Toward the horizon: Lennart Edelberg and the Danish Hindukush research [Paperback]
Ulrik Høj Johnsen (Editor); Schuyler Jones (Editor); Torkil Funder (Editor); Taj Khan Kalash (Editor)
£29.00ISBN: 9788793251229
Published by : Aarhus University Press
This book has two main objectives - to provide an overview of Danish research in the Afghan province of Nuristan, as well as to understand the scholar, collector, and man, Lennart Edelberg, who was crucial to its shaping. Ethnography as an academi... .... Learn More -
Understanding Social Conflict: The Relationship between Sociology and History [Paperback]
Liana M. Daher (Editor)
£20.00ISBN: 9788869771613
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Since the beginning of the last century Weber argued the indissoluble link between sociology and history. His approach saw the relationship between history and sociology as based on (a) mutual and essential support, and (b) logical priority, accor... .... Learn More -
The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts [Hardback]
Nancy D. Campbell (Author); James P. Olsen (Author); Luke Walden (Author); Sam Quinones (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781949669244
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
From 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie busted for dope went to the Narcotic Farm. Equal parts federal prison, treatment center, farm, and research laboratory, the Farm was designed to rehabilitate addicts and help researchers discover a cur... .... Learn More -
The Tenth Circle: Notes for a disability history [Paperback]
Massimo Fioranelli (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869772979
Published by : Mimesis International
Accompanied by Virgil, Dante visited all nine circles, where the irredeemable wicked are punished for eternity; but in the belly of that appalling place he found no trace of the disabled. And yet, at that time, they were considered bearers of... .... Learn More
Spirituality in Psychotherapy: How do Psychotherapists Understand, Navigate, Experience and Integrate Spirituality in their Professional Encounters with Clients? [Paperback]
Amalia E.M. Carli (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088909320
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book explores how Western European psychotherapists, interviewed between 2016 and 2019, understand spirituality and how they address spiritual matters in clinical sessions.
By studying a purposive sample of 15 Clinicians from Spain, ... .... Learn More
Choose Decide Change: Why the World Forgets to Do Things [Paperback]
Anna Maria Rufino (Author)
£8.99ISBN: 9788869772863
Published by : Mimesis International
Choosing, deciding and changing constitute the common thread of everything that we want and that we do. The deep transformation of all social system, in all its dimensions has profoundly resented of the diverse possibility or in other respects, of... .... Learn More
In-security: The Communication of Fear in the Mid-Global Era [Paperback]
Anna Maria Rufino (Author)
£8.99ISBN: 9788869772856
Published by : Mimesis International
The middle - globality is the time of the “not occurring”. The uncertainty of not existing, in all its – individual, social, institutional and economical – manifestations dizzily transforms the social system, destroying it in the immediacy of... .... Learn More
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