Daniel M. Brinks & Steven Levitsky 
Understanding Institutional Weakness [EPUB ebook] 
Power and Design in Latin American Institutions

First published in 1998. Based on the author’s personal experience and first encounter as a member of the sandwich generation revealed which revealed they had a great deal to learn. This book conside …

How do drugs get to the market? What controls are there and what procedures for monitoring their effects? And how adequate are the regulators in protecting public health when new drugs have serious s …

This work establishes a contemporary profile of virtue in professional media practice. Author Patrick Lee Plaisance examines the experiences, perspectives, moral stances, and demographic data of two …

Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while　media representations frame such behaviour as ‘evil’. This is hotly contested territor …

The United States has seen several anti-Asian movements, as evidenced by immigration policies, naturalization laws, state and local statutes, and acts of violence. In recent years, Asian Americans ha …

Billions of minutes a month are spent globally on social media. This raises not only serious legal issues, but also has a clear impact on everyday commercial activity. This book considers the signifi …

Sociology on the Web is directed at those who want to be able to access sociology Internet resources quickly and efficiently without needing to become IT experts. The emphasis throughout is on the lo …

Unhealthy Housing presents an analysis of the research into the health implications of housing and the significance for legal regulation of housing conditions. Key experts present short papers, toget …

Multigenerational living – where more than one generation of related adults cohabit in the same dwelling – is recognized as a common arrangement amongst many Asian, Middle Eastern and Southern Europe …

This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numb …