Medical and industrial imaging methods have become powerful tools in both the documentation and data collection procedures found in many non-traditional settings. In this book, two of the most preeminent experts in the field serve as volume editor...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines Jamaican gang development through a neoliberal framework and applies Mertons strain theory to the Neoliberal Model of Gang and Non-Gang Development: Mertonian Constructs Revisited, which elucidates the processes of the...Lasīt vairāk
Case Studies for Advances in Paleoimaging and Other Non-Clinical Applications builds on the research and advances in technology, by looking at current and recent field case studies since the publication of the authors pioneering book Paleoimaging:...Lasīt vairāk
This proceedings volume includes articles presented during the Advanced Research Workshop on Soft Target Protection.The book presents important topics related to the protection of vulnerable objects and spaces, called Soft Targets. The chap...Lasīt vairāk
The welfare state is still very much central in peoples everyday lives. The welfare state is at the same time contested and debated, and has often been argued to be in a crisis not only in the wake of the financial crisis. Welfare and welfare...Lasīt vairāk
The welfare state is still very much central in peoples everyday lives. The welfare state is at the same time contested and debated, and has often been argued to be in a crisis not only in the wake of the financial crisis. Welfare and welfare...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the contested phenomena of Islamophobia, exploring the dichotomous relationship that exists between Islamophobia as a political concept and Islamophobia as a real and tangible discriminatory phenomenon....Lasīt vairāk
How should we understand sentencing decision-making? Despite huge efforts world-wide to critique, measure, and reform sentencing, why does it remain an enigma?This book argues that sentencing is an enigma because academic and policy thinkin...Lasīt vairāk
The Economics of Education: A Comprehensive Overview, Second Edition, offers a comprehensive and current overview of the field of that is broadly accessible economists, researchers and students. This new edition revises the original 50 auth...Lasīt vairāk
Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to pressing contemporary issues such as the globalization of crime,...Lasīt vairāk
Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to pressing contemporary issues such as the globalization of crime,...Lasīt vairāk
This innovative text explains child development from a cross-cultural perspective. This is essential reading for social workers at all stages of their careers who want to develop culturally sensitive practice....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520298231)
While some books present &;ideal&; ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society&;s margins, twenty-one contemporary...Lasīt vairāk
Moving, compelling, surprising, funny, explosive, and deeply human - an unforgettable novel. - Lou Berney, author of November RoadIn 1991 Shawn, a young African-American teen, his sister Ava, and cousin Ray, set out across LA to a screening of New...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520298248)
While some books present &;ideal&; ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society&;s margins, twenty-one contemporary...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781071601303)
This volume provides a broad and critical presentation of the behavioral and psychosocial treatments of Latinxs with dementia in the United States (U.S.) and across a representative sample of Spanish-speaking countries in the world....Lasīt vairāk
Toward a Livable Life explores many of todays most critical issues facing both the United States and the profession of social work (i.e., poverty, inequality, disparities in health, discrimination, and several other areas). The volume enlists...Lasīt vairāk
From foraging and hunting for food to (more recently) finding solace and peace in a beautiful vista, humans have long interacted with the natural world. Though a connection to nature runs deep in our DNA, however, people of the modern age are indoor...Lasīt vairāk