Sergey Dorofeev & Peter Grant 
Statistics for Real-Life Sample Surveys [PDF ebook] 
Non-Simple-Random Samples and Weighted Data

This new study delivers a detailed analysis of the efforts being made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. After an initial discussion of the “southern model‘ …

Over the last decade, concepts of diaspora and locality have gained complex new meanings in political discourse as well as in social and cultural studies. Diaspora, in particular, has acquired new me …

The Economics of James Steuart reveals the particular importance of Steuart“s work on monetary issues and highlights ways in which he prepared the ground for a new conception of economic relations. …

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. D …

Through an interdisciplinary analytic lens that combines debates emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology, Valeria Bello reveals how transnational dynamics ha …

Trade liberalisation and openness, as linchpins for development have been flagships of conventional economic policy advices to most African countries over the last few decades. Much of the orientatio …

This book attempts to answer a fundamental question: How did Douglass manage to persuade anyone about the evils of slavery, and even impress viewers with his personal qualities, when his speeches wer …

First published in 1989. The studies that form the basis for this monograph were carried out between 1976 and 1979. The African Studies Centre in Leiden has a standing interest in child nutrition and …

Professor Bandman presents a philosophical argument in answer to the question, How do we justifiably bring up our children? Bandman suggests that the status of children“s rights in collusion with th …

This book offers a sustained study of one feature of the prison officer’s job: the threat and use of force, which the author calls ‘doing’ coercion. Adopting an interactionist, micro-sociological per …