Johann Calltorp & Stefan Holmstrom 
Making Choices for Healthcare [PDF ebook] 

First published in 2004. Consisting of both shorter pieces and reprints of entire books, this set restores to circulation a number of key texts from the debate about the future of welfare that took p …

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justi …

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology. It reflects on its origins, reviews its foundational research and scholarship and offers suggestions for future directions. Moreover, this bo …

This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive programs that ‘allow us to go farther into theory and to b …

Women in the thraldom of man has led sometimes, in one form or another, to the most horrible abuses. In this book, originally published in 1939, the author traces and analyses the institutions of mar …

Originally published in 1986, reissued here with a new preface,  this study of the origins and early development of family conciliation services in Britain outlines their philosophy, methods of …

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, …

The fitness boom of the last two decades has led to many people incorporating exercise into their lifestyles through activities such as jogging and aerobics. However, whilst many physical and psychol …

Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe …

Populist radical right (PRR) parties are questioning women’s rights and sexual democracy. Yet paradoxically they appropriate issues of gender+ equality to attack migrants and to mobilize a growing nu …