Brian Forst & Jack R. Greene 
Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security [PDF ebook] 

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 …

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 …

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 …

This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay …

In this intriguing volume, futurist and author Michael G. Zey imagines a time in which technology has stretched human life spans to four hundred years or more. Genetic engineering, cloning, and stem- …

First published in 1981, this book provides a basic introduction to the sociology of education. It brings together many of the principal arguments in order to help the student reach an understanding …

The issue of physical resources is one of considerable interest in the field of human resource management, but the solution to such difficulties must depend upon the skills and enterprise of those in …