Sociology
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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)
£23.00ISBN: 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 nineteenth 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, ... .... Learn More -
The Forgotten Clones: How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society [Hardback]
Nathan Crowe (Author)
£49.00ISBN: 9780822946274
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science, Values, and the Public
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning fro... .... Learn More -
Fear and Disruption of Hhabits During the Pandemic [Paperback]
Marco Piazza (Editor); Corinna Guerra (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773297
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In the year 2020, everything we used to think about our habits has been profoundly disrupted. Lockdown still represents an unprecedented experience for all those who went through it, radically affecting our freedom of movement and all those social... .... Learn More -
The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community [Hardback]
Randolph Paul Runyon (Author)
£26.50ISBN: 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 -
Literacy as Conversation: Learning Networks in Philadelphia and Arkansas [Hardback]
David A. Joliffe (Author); David A. Goldblatt (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822946243
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define liter... .... Learn More -
Bad Cities [Paperback]
Ugo Rubeo (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9788869772818
Published by : Mimesis International
Not yet published - available for pre-order
From Larry Kramer's New York to Roth's Newark and Colla's Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of urban violence, its relationship with the forerunners of the genre, and how its main... .... 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
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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)
£21.00ISBN: 9781949669244
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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
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