Urban Deprivation and the Inner City
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Originally published in 1979. Phenomena such as high levels of unemployment, decaying and vandalised...
The Law of Corporations in a Nutshell
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Completely revised and updated, conversational in tone, the book features hypotheticals to...
Mischief, Morality and Mobs: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson
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Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second...
Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change
Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling
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Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating...
Politics of Migration: Indian Emigration in a Globalised World
A. Didar Singh and S. Irudaya Rajan
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This book studies the politics surrounding Indian emigration from the 19th century to the present...
Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
Alan Agresti and Barbara Finlay
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The book presents an introduction to statistical methods for students majoring in social science...
Order and Conflict in Public Space
Mattias de Backer, Lucas Melgaco, Georgiana Varna and Francesca Menichelli
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Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can...
Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body: Theory, Method and Praxis
Michael D. Giardina and Michele K. Donnelly
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The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way...
Questioning Play: What Play Can Tell Us About Social Life
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What is play? Why do we play? What can play teach us about our life as social beings? In this...
Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies
Karl Spracklen, Andy R. Brown, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall Scott
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This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to...