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Sponsored by the Brazil-U.S.Colloquium on Communication Studies of the Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication and the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Soci …

Advance Praise for Forensic Cardiovascular Medicine’Using his vast experience in the medical-legal theater, Dr. Ru Dusky addresses a very complicated field in a simple and concise manner. Stressing t …

Is our understanding of social capital consistent with development interventions and the digital world? Social Capital: Evolution, Contestation, Application and Digitization delves into the intricaci …

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 …

In many modern economies, creativity, the essential prerequisite for innovation, tends to be assumed or neglected while the catchphrase ‘innovation’ dominates the field of business as the key to nati …

As a result of global dynamics—the increasing interconnection of people and places—innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. …

Profiling is a hot topic today. The post-9/11 ‘War on Terrorism’ has engendered political, ethical, and scientific controversy over its use. The proliferation of recent films, television programs, an …

Hartog tells the heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation, in a time before pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes filled this …

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society. …

This scintillating book by one of the most interesting young sociologists currently working in the USA is a provocative and timely contribution to the debate on civilization, modernity and postmodern …