Marilyn Strathern 
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected [PDF ebook] 
Relatives are Always a Surprise

This Handbook provides a succinct overview of sport in the Middle East, drawing in scholars from a wide variety of geographical and disciplinary backgrounds (history, politics, sociology, economics a …

Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives offers a radical rethinking of the field by unsettling conventional ideas of mobility and borders to highlight the ways in which they produce health inequa …

Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe …

In the 1970s, an important change of emphasis had occurred in the field of alcoholism. Instead of seeing alcoholism as an ‘all or none phenomenon’ it was now recognised that a continuum of alcohol pr …

This edited collection of writings by experienced therapists, social workers and interpreters working with survivors of torture in exile fills a gap in the English-language literature with its specif …

A Systems Approach to Public Administration uses General Systems Theory — a cross-disciplinary scientific philosophy first articulated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy then refined by Ervin Laszlo, and cove …

This is Volume X of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. Published in 1945, the aim of this study is to provide an account of most of the major contributions to experimental …

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …