Social Sciences Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Risk

   Second Edition

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Key Ideas

   Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Human Trafficking

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   By Mary C. Burke

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the past 60 years have changed how and why this human rights abuse occurs. In order to solve this or any social problem, it is...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Making

   Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

   By Tim Ingold

   Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Creating Sanctuary

   Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, Revised Edition

   By Sandra L Bloom

   Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Gender Development

   By Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben

   This new text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
7. The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

   By Arjen Y. Hoekstra

   Water is not only used in the domestic context, but also in agriculture and industry in the production of commercial goods, from food to paper. The water footprint is an indicator of freshwater use that looks at both direct and indirect use of water by a consumer or producer. The water footprint of...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
8. Reinventing Eden

   The Fate of Nature in Western Culture, 2nd Edition

   By Carolyn Merchant

   This revised edition of Carolyn’s Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Body and Everyday Life

   By Helen Thomas

   Series: The New Sociology

   In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Structural Approaches in Public Health

    Edited by Marni Sommer, Richard Parker

    That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors – social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental – are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge