Mark J.W. Martinyuk & Linze Schaap 
Autopoiesis and Configuration Theory: New Approaches to Societal Steering [PDF ebook] 

This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to address the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current intern …

This sane and insightful discussion explores the nature of identity in late modern societies to criticize the way in which psychotherapy has become an ideology of late modernity and to emphasize the …

Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how …

First published in 1989. The studies that form the basis for this monograph were carried out between 1976 and 1979. The African Studies Centre in Leiden has a standing interest in child nutrition and …

Derived from the author”s own survey called the Long Island Long-Term Marriage Survey, this text examines couples married 50 years or more. The survey, comprising of questionnaires and interviews, w …

Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. …

Professor David Kettler commented at the time of initial release, that this book is ‘writing with great poise and clarity, the author says important things in a deceptively simple way about a problem …

Nursing in the European Union demonstrates how the European Union (EU) has refashioned the nursing world throughout the Member States via its power in many other policy domains. Volume 1 focused on t …

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 …