社会科学

First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure o …

Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture? This book explores one of the major conundrums of our time: given all the feminist activism and reforms of the last 50 years …

The predators that can hunt, kill and eat us occupy a unique place in the human psyche – and for good reason. Whether it”s lions in Africa, tigers in India or sharks in the world”s oceans, we are f …

The second edition of Policy Practice for Social Workers expands the concept of policy practice in social work settings and illustrates how significant policy change may be achieved at a local, commu …

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical interpretations of certain phenomena in the development of China”s cultural industry. Using the film and television industries as the major cases, …

AI, robots, algorithms, and data/metrics are pervasive throughout the media industry, increasingly dictating and rapidly changing journalistic and newsroom practices, cultures, and norms – from edito …

Writing a book about recess could be a very questionable endeavor for a serious academic psychologist. At first blush it seems to be a pretty trivial topic. It”s the time during the school day where …

This book is a manual and a rallying call to enable individuals, groups, organisations, communities and institutions to develop and to grow in the face of a rolling global crisis. …

This is the first book of its kind to encourage a common understanding of competence and demonstrate the application of standards and practice in all aspects of forensic science including collection …

Over several hundred years, the juvenile justice system has evolved from one in which a child offender was prosecuted under the same guidelines used for adults to the current system in which society …