Sociology & Social Policy

Balancing Juvenile Justice..

A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists and Engineers helps scientists and engineers improve their skills at speaking in public in the course of their professional activities. The book shows how best to prepare papers for presentation at a technical conference and how to put cases to committee ..

A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned. A study of corporate globalization and the continuation of empire afte..

A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned. A study of corporate globalization and the continuation of empire afte..

Informed both by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the anthropology of science, Barcoding Nature analyses DNA barcoding in the context of a sense of crisis – concerning global biodiversity loss, but also the felt inadequacy of taxonomic science to address such loss. The authors chart the spec..

Bargains with Fate..

Basic Social Policy and Planning is a comprehensive introduction to policy and planning approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques presented in a reader-friendly fashion for persons with no prior formal training in this area. It converts sophisticated policy and planning concepts ..

Basic Social Policy and Planning is a comprehensive introduction to policy and planning approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques presented in a reader-friendly fashion for persons with no prior formal training in this area. It converts sophisticated policy and planning concepts ..

Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash is a w..

Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash is a w..

Beast or Angel?..

Beating the Devil Out of Them..