Maria J. Alfaro-Simmonds & Jessica Pykett 
Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research [PDF ebook] 

Europe is in flux. The economiccrisis, large migration flows, andterrorist attacks have put pressureon international solidarity and attitudestowards civil liberties suchas freedom of movement. To …

Questions around ”the body” are central to social theory. Our changing understanding of the body now challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. …

This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since …

What happens when economies ”heat up”? This book looks at the 1990s, years of intense economic experimentation, when buzz words such as ”network society”, ”the experience economy”, ”creative …

Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide a …

Initially published in 1953, The Chinese of Sarawak, A Study of Social Structure, is the study of the social, economic and political organization of the Chinese Community during the author”s visit o …