Sociology & Social Policy

The Game of Humor..

This was first published in 2000:  This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to recognize two things. First, the situation facing women is different from that of the 1960s when the conceptual apparatuses for analyzing "women and wor..

This book moves the focus from the bedside to the clinic in this in-depth study of genetic medicine. Against current thinking that proselytises the rise of laboratory science, Professor Latimer shows how the genetic clinic is at the heart of the revolution in the new genetics. Tracing how work on th..

This book moves the focus from the bedside to the clinic in this in-depth study of genetic medicine. Against current thinking that proselytises the rise of laboratory science, Professor Latimer shows how the genetic clinic is at the heart of the revolution in the new genetics. Tracing how work on th..

The Generality of Deviance..

In this book, Hae explores how nightlife in NYC, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone gentrification, and how this transformation has dampened urban inhabitants’ rights to the uses of urban space and access to diverse urb..

In this book, Hae explores how nightlife in NYC, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone gentrification, and how this transformation has dampened urban inhabitants’ rights to the uses of urban space and access to diverse urb..

The Geography of Hudson's Bay: Being the Remarks of Captain W. Coats, in Many Voyages to That Locality, Between the Years 1727 and 1751. - Edited Title..

The Geography of Malcolm X explores how the radical black power movement that emerged in the 1960s thought and acted in spatial terms...

We are all familiar with the importance of 'progress' and 'change'. But what about loss? Across the world, from Beijing to Birmingham, people are talking about loss: about the loss that occurs when populations try to make new lives in new lands as well as the loss of traditions, languages and landsc..

The Geography of Towns..

This title was first published in 2000:  This volume explores one of the world's greatest cultural heartlands - the Indian sub-continent...