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31. The Futures of the City Region

    Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
32. Health and Human Rights in a Changing World

    3rd Edition

    Edited by Michael Grodin, Daniel Tarantola, Sofia Gruskin, George Annas

    Health and Human Rights in a Changing World is a comprehensive and contemporary collection of readings and original material examining health and human rights from a global perspective. Editors Grodin, Tarantola, Annas, and Gruskin are well-known for their previous two volumes (published by...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
33. Society and Nature

    A Sociological Inquiry

    By Hans Kelsen

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
34. Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

    Edited by Janet Henshall Momsen

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
35. Information Society Studies

    By Alistair S. Duff

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
36. Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

    State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization

    By Majid Mohammadi

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
37. The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia

    Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines

    By Ben Wallace

    Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

    This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
38. Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

    By Susan C. Boyd

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
39. Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990–2000

    By Michael E Martin

    Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

    Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
40. Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church

    By Amanda Udis-Kessler

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines)...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge