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Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalizatio…

Книга знакомит читателя с вкладом теоретиков и школ, на разных этапах формировавших идейный фундамент социального конструкционизма как парадигмы в соц…

Монография посвящена анализу процесса формирования и развития фабрик мысли в США, Европе и других регионах мира. В тексте прослеживается эволюция деят…

A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural di…

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philosop…

A reference guide for applications of SEM using Mplus Structural Equation Modeling: Applications Using Mplus is intended as both a teaching resource a…

Using an evidence-based approach and case studies from a wide range of life domains, Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing examines the most…

The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world histo…

This groundbreaking handbook provides a comprehensive picture of the ethical dimensions of communication in a global setting. Both theoretical and pra…

This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cybe…

The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinking The rapid pace of emerging technologies is…

Contemporary Moral and Social Issues is a uniquely entertaining introduction that brings ethical thought to life. It makes innovative use of engaging,…

Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State explores the breadth of Ohio’s past, tracing the course of history from its earliest geological periods to the pr…

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication aims to furnish scholars with a consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of the…

Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth researc…

Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropologypresents a series of essays from leading anthropologists that critically reexam…

A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an …

С конца XIX столетия значимую роль в политических процессах постепенно начали играть интеллектуалы. Из шутливого обозначения идеологической группы выр…

For engineering and scientific endeavors to progress there must be generally accepted ethical guidelines in place to which engineers and scientists mu…

Настоящее издание посвящено одной из важнейших и системообразующих категорий – социальному либерализму. Пользуясь этим понятием, разные авторы и их кр…

Disasters threaten all parts of the world and they appear to be increasing in frequency, scale and intensity. Despite huge improvements in the emergen…

Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, Modern Environments and Human Health demonstrat…

The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizations Offers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological stud…

This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume. Contains over 800 entries from the whole …

Книга знакомит с трудами выдающих военных теоретиков XXI века, представляющих мировые державы – США и Китай. Американский и китайский подходы к гибрид…

What's Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television presents an introduction to the basic theories and concepts of moral philosophy using concr…

Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's f…

This important resource offers a comprehensive overview of the major U.S. environmental laws and approaches, strategies, standards, and enforcement te…

This book explores the origins, extent and implications of this revival in the fortunes of private landlordism. It presents an in-depth, scholarly ana…

Сегодня Россия усилила свое присутствие в Африке, выстраивая сотрудничество со странами по всему континенту. Но мало кто знает, что старт российскому …

In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulati…

This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A r…

A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array …

Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction traces the history of media literacy and grapples with the fresh challenges posed by the convergent media of…

Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering st…

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualiza…

This volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography. Unparalleled in scope, the companion offers an indis…

Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses offers students in archaeology laboratory courses a detailed and invaluable how-to…

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism presents an edited collection of essays that explore the nature of Humanism as an approach to life, and a phi…

Part of the six-volume Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this is a comprehensive look at the economics of wellbeing with coverage of history, res…

Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studie…

This volume tackles key issues in the changing nature of family life from a global perspective, and is essential reading for those studying and workin…