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How does climate change affect social work and social development? What actions are needed to integrate the three pillars of economic development, environmental development and social protection? Thi …

Feminist scholars have demonstrated how ‘dominant discourses’ and ‘master narratives’ frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and depoliticizing women’s storying of their own liv …

Can a better understanding of group dynamics raise individual and team athletic performance or improve the outcomes of exercise interventions? Much human behaviour in sport and exercise settings is e …

Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, Alexandra Keller provides the first critical study of …

The astonishing expose of al Qaeda and the Taliban’s booming drug trade Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about the West’s enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminal …

”Does the evidence reflect the reality under investigation?” This is just one of the important questions Marten Shipman asks in the fourth edition of his highly successful book, The Limitations of …

This work establishes a contemporary profile of virtue in professional media practice. Author Patrick Lee Plaisance examines the experiences, perspectives, moral stances, and demographic data of two …

This book has two purposes. First, it is fundamentally about groups at work, both as they attempt to accomplish their goals and as they operate in organizational settings. Second, it draws together g …

Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen’s The Politics of Abolition is …

Forensic practice in the community is a neglected subject. There are many books looking at forensic work in secure settings, such as prisons or hospitals, but very little has been written about foren …