Simon Rowedder & Oliver Tappe 
Extracting Development [PDF ebook] 
Extracting Development

Environmental harms exert a significant toll and pose substantial economic costs on societies around the world. Although such harms have been studied from both legal and social science perspectives, …

In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Current …

In a wide-ranging analysis of the drama of history, the importance of ethnicity, and Jewish identity, these essays explore areas of political and cultural disciplines fused with elegance in the work …

Judges in most societies often resort to resolving disputes by means of applying a criterion of reasonableness. In The Demise of the”Reasonable Man” Michael Saltman explores the ways in which reaso …

This book is concerned with the legal system as it operates for ordinary citizens on a day-to-day basis. It emphasizes that the impact of law on behavior is based on social and institutional influenc …

The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates–in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry–in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. The a …

Humor and laughter play a vital part in our everyday social encounters. This book is concerned with the exploration of the psychology of humor and laughter by the foremost professional researchers in …

Reputable scholars have long charged that symbolic interactionism, which is based on the principle of ‘sociality, ‘ discounts the importance that subordination plays in human groups. Emphasizing domi …

The editors of this volume are committed to the philosophy of treating emotionally disturbed children in the life milieu. Both have been intensely involved in training ‘online’ therapists–child care …

Anthropologists travel back in time and across the globe to understand human culture but, surprise, there is culture right here in the United States. This second edition of the best-selling textbook …