Sociology
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Fear and Disruption of Habits 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 -
Social Trust in the Nordic World [Paperback]
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9788772195926
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Why does Scandinavia perform so well both economically and socially compared to the rest of the world? Study after study has shown that Scandinavia is the most trusting region in the world - Danes in particular trust other people, including strang... .... Learn More -
The Forgotten Clones: How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society [Hardback]
Nathan Crowe (Author)
£43.50ISBN: 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 -
The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community [Hardback]
Randolph Paul Runyon (Author)
£24.00ISBN: 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)
£30.00ISBN: 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 -
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
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 -
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)
£20.50ISBN: 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
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