Pursuing Justice examines the issue of justice by considering the origins of the idea, formal systems of justice, current global issues of justice, and ways in which justice might be achieved by individuals, organizations, and the global community. Helping students understand the complexities and nuances of a society's pursuit of justic
This collection centralizes race and intercultural communication to interrogate the myths of colour-blindness and post-racialism. It examines their manifestations in various discourses and mediums of communication. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
This book contributes to the rethinking of realism through multiple analyses of the keys works of Kenneth Waltz, arguing that a sophisticated appreciation of realism is needed to truly understand world politics and International Relations.
Refiguring postmaternalism requires extending the maternal beyond mothers and heterosexual nuclear families, and the memorialization of the maternal needs to diversify to destabilise associations of the maternal with neoliberalism and the depoliticization of feminism. This book was first published as a special issue of Australian Feminist Stu
Through a critical assessment of international regulatory counter-terrorism in three areas – financial services, the control of arms and dangerous materials, and the cross-border movement of persons and goods – this volume identifies a trend of dynamism: the refashioning of international rule-making into a flexible and experimental exercise.
Autor:Victor Augusto Yangali Quintanilla
Y Quintanilla
Data wydania:2010
The demand for drinking water can lead many cities to implement indirect water reuse programs, where wastewater effluent becomes part of the drinking water sources. This title demonstrates nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) to be appropriate technologies for removing a large number of micropollutants from the water.
This book examines the possibility and necessity of critical thinking in religious education through the lenses of critical realism and the Christian doctrine of sensus fidei (â€~sense of faith’).
Retail has an increasingly powerful impact on our everyday experience of the world. In Retail and Social Change, Steven Miles interrogates the changing role of retail, in its material and virtual forms, as a lens through which we can understand what it means to be a citizen of a consumer society.
There have been fundamental changes in renumeration practices in the UK over the last quarter century, with a substantial decline in collective bargaining as the major method of pay determination and the growth of more individualistic systems based on employee performance, skills or competency.
This new text, which includes chapters by major UK academics and consultants who are specialists in the reward management field, is the first to adopt a critical and theoretical approach to these changes in reward systems. It covers the Institute of Personnel and Development's reward syllabus but, unlike other reward books, takes a thematic and theoretical approach to the material. "This book is a valuable resource for students, practitioners and academics. Each chapter is
This six-volume facsimile collection features long-out-of-print articles, documents and books that shed light on the key developments in radio in the USA-most of which took place in the 1920s and 1930s.
Football is big business. The top teams and leagues in world football generate billions of dollars in revenue and serve an audience of billions of fans. This book focuses on the marketing of football, as the apex of the contemporary football industry. Drawing upon key theories and concepts in sport marketing research, it highlights the critical
The Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity examines the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of international peace and security.
Almost every major debate in the study of Islam and among Muslims looks to the formative period of Islam. This Handbook provides a definitive overview of early Islam and how this period was understood and deployed by later Muslims.
This book presents the state-of-the-art on the full landscape of research on antisocial behavior that employs psychopathy as a central correlate. It is the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind and includes experts from around the world.
Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin uses primetime television to express a new understanding of what it means to be Russian. It relates the critical issues in contemporary Russian television to broader social and political developments in Russian society.
This important book presents leading experts from around the world providing useful instruction on effective ways to plan for future crisis response and strategies for recovering business. The book is extensively referenced and includes several tables and figures to clearly explain data.
A practical introduction to the engineering science and mathematics required for engineering study and practice. This 6th edition has a new chapter on ways of generating electricity. 580 worked examples, 1300 further problems and 425 multiple choice questions are contained within the book.
Drawing on the conclusions of recent research, this book takes a more critical view of Peel's political career than is conventionally offered. It argues that, although Peel was an efficient administrator and a dominant political leader in the 1830s and 1840s, he lacked both intellectual flexibility and political sensitivity. His arrogance and inflexibility rather than the inadequacies of his backbenchers, were largely responsible for the break-up of the Conservative party in 1846 and for its generation in the political wilderness thereafter.
Completing the trilogy of Great Victorian Prime Ministers in the Lancaster Pamphlet series, Professor Evans's reassessment of Peel's career sheds light both on a major political figure and, more widely, on party politics in the
This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life. It stimulates creative thinking about how social care professionals can develop meaningful relationships and engage confidently and effectively with African families they encounter within work contexts.
Deals with the nature of classification in the social sciences. This book states that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations.
Autor:Arne Kalland
Brian Moeran
John Clammer
Joy Hendry
Margaret Powell
Masahira Anesaki
Munesuke Mita
Various
W R Crocker
Data wydania:2010
Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system.
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