Sociology & Social Policy

Bringing together pioneering scholarship from the social, biological sciences and the humanities, this book charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race'. It is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities of 'racial' thinking...

Bringing together pioneering scholarship from the social, biological sciences and the humanities, this book charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race'. It is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities of 'racial' thinking...

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes presents a mix of geographical, sociological, urban planning and legal viewpoints of the commercial sex industry – sex shops, strip clubs, gentlemen’s clubs, brothels and sex workers. The collection showcases contemporary and historical examples of the location, impacts and regu..

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes presents a mix of geographical, sociological, urban planning and legal viewpoints of the commercial sex industry – sex shops, strip clubs, gentlemen’s clubs, brothels and sex workers. The collection showcases contemporary and historical examples of the location, impacts and regu..

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Middle East experts Gilber Achcar and Michel Warschawski assess the causes and consequences of the 2006 war in Lebannon...

This title was first published in 2000. This is a collection of papers which look at the relationship between higher education and those who use it, and those who will in the future. The papers look at how compacts could be developed to encourage the potential for maintaining and improving upon exis..

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change. Britain, uniquely, has five large-scale life course studies that began at intervals throughout that period, which have shown how lives are shaped by..

This text collects together Ben Agger's essays on the origins, significance and applications of critical theory - a perspective associated with the Frankfurt School. The essays address a variety of topics including the viability of Marxist theory and new social movements...

This title was first published in 2002: Burghley House, Stamford, was built between 1555 and 1587 for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. The library there contains an extensive collection of manuscript and printed music dating from about 1650 to 1850, substan..

A Dictionary of Geography..