(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807455)
Reveals how trustbuilt, broken, and rebuiltshapes the everyday work of frontline public servants and the quality of the relationship between citizens and the state. Trust at the Ground Level of Government moves beyond abstract theory to s...Loe edasi...
This volume presents a comprehensive look at the issues, dilemmas, and conditions faced by older Latinos and their caregivers, with salient consideration given to key changes shaping the need for assistance and the availability of support. It offers...Loe edasi...
Fifty years after its first publication in 1976 Routledge is now reissuing Thalidomide: My Fight with a substantial new introduction by the author. It is the powerful story of one mans battle for his daughter a battle which began privately and ende...Loe edasi...
This book takes a critical look at how leisure and sport intersect with crime and harm. Bringing together leading scholars in criminology, sociology, sport science, social work and psychology, it shows how recreational and elite sporting spaces ca...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1993, Unsettled Affinities was Reinhard Bendixs final work. It has a unique place in his writings, as it continues the themes contained in the two volumes of Embattled Reason and extends them in his consideration of the idea...Loe edasi...
This thought-provoking and innovative book argues for the importance of leisure studies as a lens through which to understand and interrogate our hypermodern society....Loe edasi...
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call akrasia that is, the possibility t...Loe edasi...
Through ethnographic research primarily in Bulawayo,Economies of Care addresses the intersection of kinship, state functions and migration in sustaining livelihoods amidst Zimbabwes economic and political instability....Loe edasi...
Archaeological literature has often placed the role of crafting within discourses of craft specialization, anchoring it to questions related to sociopolitical complexity, which linked political processes with productive organization. This book invit...Loe edasi...
What are the problems that concern young people today? How do young people cope? First published in 2000, this title presents the findings of a team of international researchers, including both social scientists and practitioners, who had surveyed...Loe edasi...
First published in 1974, Students and Books examines key questions about British university undergraduate reading habits of the time. This detailed report and analysis remains essential reading for university lecturers and librarians, academic books...Loe edasi...
This book takes us beneath the banality of business as usual where technoscientific professionals routinely make judgments that impact the lives of others. Be it the safety of engineered systems, the speed and accuracy of medical diagnoses, or the w...Loe edasi...
Regal tells the story of the engagement of philosophers, naturalists and scientists in what we now call cryptozoology, a much longer history than most appreciate....Loe edasi...
Regal tells the story of the engagement of philosophers, naturalists and scientists in what we now call cryptozoology, a much longer history than most appreciate....Loe edasi...
This book confronts one of the defining challenges of super-aged societies: the surging number of older adults living alone in Japan, the global leader in population aging. It delivers a rigorous, data-driven exploration of why solitary senior livin...Loe edasi...
This book shows how to conduct statistical power analysis when the underlying research data are unreliable and explores how sample design effects, measurement error, and equating error impact power analysis. As such, it covers unreliability in test...Loe edasi...
Democratic Alternatives investigates the intersection of social democracy, market socialism, and the radical critique of the Situationist International. While the Situationists rejected reformism outright, their analysis of alienation, commodificati...Loe edasi...
The development of new environmental technologies plays a critical role in making environmental protection more effective and economically viable. This book opens a truly innovative perspective for understanding environmental innovation essential to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009389112)
Bringing together experts in psychology, relationship science, neuroscience, medicine, sociology, and gerontology, this handbook demystifies the phenomenon of loneliness. It presents rigorous interdisciplinary research using accessible language, mak...Loe edasi...
