Steven John Thompson 
Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society [PDF ebook] 

This book deals with the historic transition to democracy in South Africa and its impact upon crime and punishment. It examines how the problem of crime has emerged as a major issue to be governed in …

Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system – especially in light of the discursive and material ”transgressions” currently happening between alternative …

Drawing on psychological and sociological perspectives as well as quantitative and qualitative data, Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States considers the ways the self and social iden …

In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the many ways that popular culture intersects with mundane exper …

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and nu …

The challenges of achieving environmental sustainability and of generating decent work for all are closely linked. In this timely book, Poschen argues that an integrated approach to tackle these chal …

Nursing in the European Union demonstrates how the European Union (EU) has refashioned the nursing world throughout the Member States via its power in many other policy domains. Volume 1 focused on t …

How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, …

Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide – the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly, studies of …

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. Wendell Bell”s two-volume work Foundations of Futures Studies is widely acknowledged a …