Sheppard Elizabeth Sheppard & Haque Shamsul Haque 
Culture and Cognition [PDF ebook] 
A collection of critical essays

Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social …

The Anthropology of Love and Anger questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. In their examination of indigenous peoples from across the South American continent, the contributor …

Paul Teague explores the macro-economic, productive and institutional pressures faced by Europe”s social model and assesses a number of economic and political programmes aimed at resolving the crisi …

these are just two of the issues addressed by Les Johnston, who argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of public personnel, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, priv …

This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underp …

This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of ”the family”, it traces some of the crucial historical roots a …

In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools availabl …

In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking Don”tBlame Mother. Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mothers …

Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion—mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalizat …

The intimate, private, and heart wrenching stories told in this book, the first of its kind in Australia, will penetrate the hearts and souls of even the most hardened reader. Told with incredible di …