Sebastian L. Mazzuca & Gerardo L. Munck 
Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America [PDF ebook] 

New and unremitting violence linked to state, inter-state, and private actors has precipitated a renewal of social movements, many of which act in concert with human rights ethos and legal conception …

This issue of Trends in Communication will inspire researchers to take up the matter of convergence as a topic for research. We are entering a world–literally–without technical borders, and we need …

This volume focuses on the abuse of statistical inference in scientific and statistical literature, as well as in a variety of other sources, presenting examples of misused statistics to show that ma …

Helping to Promote Social Justice is a richly informed and practical guide for advanced students and young professionals to become helpers capable of promoting social justice with whomever they colla …

Women s physiology evolved to aid reproduction, not to reduce disease. Any trait however detrimental to post-reproductive health is preserved in the next generation if it increases the chances of hav …

This book examines the rise and proliferation of ”Supermaxes”, large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s. …

Walter Taplin here presents the first fruits of his exhaustive enquiry into the causes of this massive feature of contemporary life. Advertising has deeper and more interesting sources than the mere …

First published in 2006. Frances Keyzer was an Englishwoman who lived in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century, when French women were reckoned to be the cleverest of cooks, and the Parisia …

Gain an understanding of the threat to freedom that is posed by state regulation of adolescent sexual behavior Sexual autonomy encompasses both the right to engage in wanted sexual activity and the r …

Feminist Perspectives on Politics considers how feminist perspectives have considerably broadened the scope of what is considered ”political”. Themes and issues covered range from nineteenth centur …