Sociology & Social Policy

Widely regarded as the most important legal theorist of the twentieth century, the author is best known for his formulation of the "pure theory of law" - within which the study of international law was his special field of work. Divided into two parts, this volume, allows him to adjust his theory to..

Just what is a generation? And why, if at all, does it matter? This book asks what generation means to ordinary people, arguing that generation is real and it matters, but not in the ways that we think. Generations are not groups of people who can be categorized and attributed with static, immutable..

French political culture has long been seen as a model of leftist militancy, while the left in the United States is often perceived in terms of organizational discontinuity. Yet today's crisis of social democracy suggests that while the archetypal European welfare state is in danger, critics and cit..

Reprint. Originally published under the title: Prescribing our future. New York: De Gruyter, c1993...

Genetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evolutionary development of the living world. This book summarizes the development of evolutionary thinking, and describes how what we know about genetic di..

Firmly grounded in empirical data, this book critically engages with the relational, moral and ethical issues surrounding genetic testing in contemporary society. Competing accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame – by families, by professionals and in the public sphere – are analysed rigorous..

Shows that James Mark Baldwin's Genetic Theory of Reality demonstrates how human beings are in their nature social beings, establishes an alternative conceptualization of evolutionary theory, and formulates a system of developmental logic, all of which serve as the foundation for developmental psych..

This interdisciplinary volume is the first to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of southern Africa and the wider phenomenon of 'Israelite' identity...

This interdisciplinary volume is the first to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of southern Africa and the wider phenomenon of 'Israelite' identity...

This interdisciplinary volume is the first to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of southern Africa and the wider phenomenon of 'Israelite' identity...

Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia..

This title was first published in 2001. As care services in Britain have moved from institutional to community-based environments, there has been a simultaneous shift in those agencies concerned with the provision of such care and support. this new environment of care is a complex one, involving num..