Peter A. Hall & Michele Lamont 
Successful Societies [PDF ebook] 
How Institutions and Culture Affect Health

This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied fo …

Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other jurisdictions a …

A book about racism and its intersections with other forms of oppression within the talking therapies, told from the therapist’s perspective. Containing first-person accounts of the often …

Every child is born with innate wisdom; the role of adults – parents, educators, social workers and policy makers – is to nurture this wisdom and enable it to flourish. This belief underpins this …

US and global banking regulators have enforced compliance laws to minimise money laundering, terrorist funding, human trafficking, fraudulent banking activities, and bad mortgage loans that expose ba …

Unemployment is one of Southern Europe”s most serious political problems. Though much has been written about unemployment”s causes and cures, systematic attention to its consequences is lacking. …

Japanese Industry in the American South is an anthropological case study that describes whole industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. This book searches f …

An enlightening review of the successes and failures of several federally funded community-based projects that offered elderly persons an alternative to nursing home care. Policymakers, caregivers, …