David C. Thorns 
Fragmenting Societies? [PDF ebook] 
A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the ‘war between the sexes’. It deals with the politics of large state-sized …

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget”s work in psychology, education and philosophy duri …

This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education – either in general studies programmes or as aspects …

Mass communications media play a potentially crucial role both in democratization and in ensuring democracy”s survival. The essays in this volume analyse differing aspects of the complex relationshi …

When first published in 1933, this monograph shed new light on the life of the Valenge women of Portuguese East Africa. It discusses their social organisations, family relationships, education, triba …

What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like pow …

First published in 1997, this volume explores the twenty years it has taken the United States to decide where Vietnam belongs on its mental landscape, as indicated by the establishment of official di …

First published in 1998, this book analytically examines the social and professional origins of one of the most powerful groups in society, the Chief Constables of the police forces of England and Wa …

The decline in the quality of American public school instruction, particularly in science and mathematics, is a well-documented subject of concern for our nation. This book examines the educational s …

Age-Period-Cohort analysis has a wide range of applications, from chronic disease incidence and mortality data in public health and epidemiology, to many social events (birth, death, marriage, etc) i …