This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has ...
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Brings together readings on the controversial issue of myth from many different angles: philosophical, psychological, sociological, semiological ...
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Explores the links between psychology and crime, evaluating psychological explanations of crime and the use of psychology within the criminal...
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While it's more likely that blue collar and white collar crime are reported and punished, crimes of the powerful are less likely to be reported ...
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(Pub. Date: 01-Dec-2008, Paperback, Publisher: Open University Press)
Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal...
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The subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important since 9-11 than ever before. This work traces its development through...
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Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. Using ...
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(Pub. Date: 25-Oct-2007, Paperback, Publisher: Oxford University Press)
Belanger, an expert on vampirism and a self-professed psychic vampire, convinces nearly two dozen real-life vampires to break the code of silence ...
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'Flexicurity' - a combination of 'flexibility' and 'security' - has become a hot topic among European politicians. At the European summit on ...
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An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence...
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By two of the world's foremost collectors of pictorial symbols who are also devoted flower enthusiasts, this collection is rendered from rare ...
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This study examines the thematisation of "poverty" in the Qumran, the Psalms and in the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah) and the emerging ...
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(Pub. Date: 20-Jun-2002, Hardback, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter & Co)
Providing a picture of US involvement with international drug control from its inception to 1997, this book charts the American quest to ...
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(Pub. Date: 28-Feb-2002, Paperback, Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.)
The opening of the secret files of the East German Ministry of State Security after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 enabled this study. Most ...
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Takes the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for ...
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