Helja Franssila & Artur Lugmayr 
Media in the Ubiquitous Era: Ambient, Social and Gaming Media [PDF ebook] 

Inequality has dramatically increased in America, with few solutions on the horizon. Serious social inequalities persist. For example, the 14 richest Americans earned enough money from their investme …

This volume features the leading contemporary articles that are part of, or related to, the ”new masculinities” approach in this sphere. These comprise an impressive range of theoretical and empiri …

This book addresses the negative impact of social cleavages on the development of many African countries. It proposes new ideas on how the development crisis in Africa may be addressed by conceptuali …

Conventional wisdom has it that the Middle East crisis is the product of a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF BUSH frames that conflict as part of an entirely …

This title was first published in 2001: The papers in this volume, selected from nearly 100 submissions to the Fourth International Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, reflect t …

Many people in England have little knowledge of genuine ”English” fairy tales. The stories that many of us grew up with are from overseas: for example Snow White is German, Cinderella is French and …

Teenage Pregnancy and Young Parenthood provides a comprehensive, unparalleled insight into the　 UK Government’s highly successful Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (TPS) for England which reduced the under- …

This title was first published in 2000: This volume focuses on the influence of, and additionally explores the value adding contribution of, information systems and related technologies on the develo …

Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn”t have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to …

Originally published in 1962, this study discusses the changes in the life of the Ovimbundu from the time of their caravan trade in slaves, rubber, and ivory down to the more recent period when the o …