Ciencias sociales

Derived from the author»s own survey called the Long Island Long-Term Marriage Survey, this text examines couples married 50 years or more. The survey, comprising of questionnaires and interviews, w …

Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful a …

Broadly speaking there are two kinds of professional practice skills relevant to the burgeoning field of gerontological human service: clinical modalities and macro strategies. This book identifies s …

Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, ‘If you live in or have visited even a medium-sized city recently, you have seen runaway and h …

Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets, famous as the founder of modern empirical economics, pioneered the quantitative study of the economic history of the Jews. Yet until now his most important work on the s …

Based on ethnographic research conducted in »Starlets», a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the »deviant», and »stigmatized» world of lap-dan …

Often, research concerning the female offender is scarce. This book adds to the criminological literature on the topic of reentry for women, focusing on the barriers women face as they return to soci …

This title was first published in 2001. This text addressses the variations in democratic institutional design and seeks to determine not only if these differences matter, but also to explain how the …

This title was first published in 2001. This edition presents the view that strategies which aim for team building without recognizing the importance of diversity are likely to have limited success. …

This book confronts readers with questions emerging from the »gap» between EU aspirations to reduce youth unemployment without increasing social exclusion – and what is actually happening in practi …