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 …

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. …

This book was written with the belief that ordinal statistical methods–sometimes discussed under the title of 'nonparametric statistics’–deserve much more serious attention as research tools than t …

In today’s information society, to make a real and lasting impact on human welfare takes applications of information technology aimed at enhancing access to all. HUSITA7-The 7th International Confere …

Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a performative fashio …