Paul Warde 
Invention of Sustainability [EPUB ebook] 
Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1870

Examining the historical, economic and political context for the current prohibition of particular drugs, this study investigates the problem of drug control and provides a systematic analysis of the …

As Felix Frankfurter and James Landis write in their preface to The Business of the Supreme Court, ‘To an extraordinary degree legal thinking dominates the United States. Every act of government, eve …

Nursing in the European Union demonstrates how the European Union (EU) has refashioned the nursing world throughout the Member States via its power in many other policy domains. Volume 1 focused on t …

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. They contribute as much to a society »s economic well-being as does worker productivity in formal markets. In Citizens, Families, and …

Control theories have dominated criminological theory and research since the 1969 publication of Hirschi »s seminal work on the social bond. Social control and self-control theorists are unique in su …

This title was first published in 2001. For the English people, the image of the monarchy is deeply bound up with the idea of nationhood. This book surveys aspects of England »s royal heritage dialog …

Originally published in 1975, this volume reports a multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the precursors of intelligence, as measured by Stanford-Binet IQ scores, of 4-year-old children. Over 26, …

Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These …

The transformations seen in women »s active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of …

Focusing on aspects of modern Taiwan related to the fields of economics, social policy and politics, this collection brings together leading scholars to discuss recent developments in Taiwanese socie …