Peter A. Hall & Michele Lamont 
Successful Societies 
How Institutions and Culture Affect Health

Gangs have long been a social and criminal threat to society. Introduction to Gangs in America explains how gangs are addressed as a criminal justice and public policy problem, providing a …

Pushing back on the critique that social justice is often just a buzzword in student affairs, this book provides guidance on how to truly make social justice a fundamental part of student affairs. …

This volume outlines Max Weber’s comparative-historical sociology of ‘interpretive understanding’ (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus. Presentin …

This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers’ in-work poverty in western China. The research presented in this book identifies the …

Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education examines the relationship between science fiction, education, and social change in the 21st century. Glob …

Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation provides a contextualised, research-based understanding of how to enhance and support the emotional healt …

This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of global heritage and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must …

Adriany explores gender discourses in early childhood education in Indonesia, as well as how teachers and children are engaged in the process of constructing, negotiating, and resisting dominant gend …

This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by …

New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India offers an analysis of India’s welfare policy during the last couple of decades. It looks at how welfare policy making is viewed as a function of pa …