E-books: Social Sciences

Edited by Donna Youngs

Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of…

eBook – 2019-07-29 
Routledge
Contemporary Issues in Social Science

Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing…

eBook – 2019-02-28 
Routledge
Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives

Edited by Pal Bjorby, Anka Ryall

The articles in this collection indicate the still powerful role of queer theory in questioning the political, social, cultural, institutional hegemony of heterosexuality in culture and society at large as well as in academic research institutions. Written from the perspective of the northern…

eBook – 2019-02-28 
Routledge

By Daniel Goulart

Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health: Lessons from Brazil presents and discusses subjectivity as a key concept to challenge the individualized and reified perspective that psychology and mental health studies have traditionally sustained. Situated against the maintenance of hierarchical,…

eBook – 2019-02-21
Routledge
Concepts for Critical Psychology

By Tomáš Profant

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as 'new donors.' This book aims to problematize this distinction between old and new development donors, applying an…

eBook – 2019-02-21
Routledge
Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

By Gerald Mars

Originally published in 1982 Cheats at Work looks at occupations from an anthropological point of view, using a similar format to analysis of cultures in the study of anthropology. The author uses an extensive set of quotations drawn from over a hundred informants at all social levels. The…

eBook – 2019-02-21
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Jake Poller

The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. New ASCs, such as those associated with LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, were cultivated and studied, while older ASCs were given new classifications: out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences,…

eBook – 2019-02-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited by Darryl Caterine, John W. Morehead

Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been…

eBook – 2019-02-18
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Religion

By Robert L. Anemone

Race and Human Diversity is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. Robert L. Anemone examines the biological basis of human difference and how humans have biologically and culturally adapted to life in different environments. The book…

eBook – 2019-02-18
Routledge

Edited by William A. Mirola, Michael O. Emerson, Susanne C Monahan

Sociology of Religion is a collection that seeks to explore the relationship between the structure and culture of religion and various elements of social life in the United States. This reader is an ideal standalone course text and can also serve as supplement to the text written by the same author…

eBook – 2019-02-18
Routledge

By Erik Herber

This book examines the little or not previously researched roles and contributions of non-legal professionals in Japanese criminal justice against the background of recent social and legal changes that either gave birth to or affected the roles played by these "outsiders". On the basis of a wealth…

eBook – 2019-02-18
Routledge

By Roger Brownsword

This book considers the implications of the regulatory burden being borne increasingly by technological management rather than by rules of law. If crime is controlled, if human health and safety are secured, if the environment is protected, not by rules but by measures of technological…

eBook – 2019-02-18
Routledge
Law, Science and Society