Stefan Hradil & Stefan Immerfall 
Die westeuropäischen Gesellschaften im Vergleich [PDF ebook] 

Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to t …

Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics – from the portentous politics of state or war, to the grassroots, everyday politics of family, romance, business, church and school. Politics …

”Community” is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea …

Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book …

The fight against money laundering, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, cyber crime, and the promotion of the enhancement of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters have been at the …

Globalisation influences every aspect of post-modern social reality. However, little empirical research has considered how globalisation affects people’s perception of their national attachments. Thi …

How can youthful talent become world-class talent? Talent Abounds tells the stories of master teachers and their students who raise performance to peak levels in classical music and conducting, jazz, …

This book analyzes Talcott Parsons” largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons” version of the characteristics …

Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline‘specifically the concept of ‘capital’ has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural …

The issue of physical resources is one of considerable interest in the field of human resource management, but the solution to such difficulties must depend upon the skills and enterprise of those in …