Social Work and Family Violence

Social Work and Family Violence

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Social Work and Family Violence

Mrs. Lincolns Rival

Mrs. Lincolns Rival

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincolns Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Ladys very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society. (Providence Journal)

Mrs. Lincolns Rival

An Introduction to Socio-Finance

An Introduction to Socio-Finance

This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.

An Introduction to Socio-Finance

A Sacred Kingdom

A Sacred Kingdom

Drawing on the records of nearly 100 bishops’ councils spanning the centuries, alongside royal law, edicts, and capitularies of the same period, this study details how royal law and the very character of kingship among the Franks were profoundly affected by episcopal traditions of law and social order.

A Sacred Kingdom

The Measure of Woman

The Measure of Woman

By the end of the Middle Ages, the ius communethe combination of canon and Roman lawhad formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along with its patriarchal system of categorizing women. Throughout medieval Europe, women regularly found themselves in court, suing or being sued, defending themselves against criminal accusations, or prosecuting others for crimes committed against them or their families. Yet choosing to litigate entailed accepting the conceptual vocabulary of the learned law, thereby reinforcing the very legal and social notions that often subordinated them.

The Measure of Woman

The Internet For Dummies, Twelfth Edition

The Internet For Dummies, Twelfth Edition

Don’t miss the 12th edition of this bestseller, fully updated and now covering social networking!

The Internet For Dummies, Twelfth Edition

Why Good is Good

Why Good is Good

Where do our moral beliefs come from? Theologians and scientists provide often conflicting answers. Robert Hinde resolves these conflicts to offer a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary response, drawing on psychology, philosophy, evolutionary biology and social anthropology.

Why Good is Good

Globalization and Language in Contact

Globalization and Language in Contact

This book examines the impact of globalization on languages in contact, including the study of linkages between the global and local, and transnational and situated communication. It engages with social theory and social processes while grappling with questions of language analysis raised by globalized language contact.

Globalization and Language in Contact

Language Culture and Identity

Language Culture and Identity

How language shapes and is shaped by identity is a key topic within sociolinguistics. An individual’s identity is constituted through a variety of different factors, including the social, linguistic, cultural and ethnic contexts.

Language Culture and Identity

The Language of Newspapers

The Language of Newspapers

This book charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeeth century to the present day. It extends work done on the language of the media to include an historical perspective, adding to wider contemporary debates about the social impact of the media.

The Language of Newspapers

Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming

In this pioneering work of social criticism, Kalle Lasn, the publisher of Adbusters magazine, lays the foundation for the most significant social movement of the next 20 years. Culture jammers are a global network of media activists waging a protracted war against the mass media and against the consumerism that is overtaking America and the world. In Culture Jam, Lasn assesses the current situation, discusses whether spontaneity and individuality can be restored, explores, possibilities for renewal, and offers a glimpse of what could happen if citizens band together to fight.

Culture Jamming

Endgame 1758

Endgame 1758

The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. This book presents the dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home.

Endgame 1758

Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female.She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.–from Theoryof the Young-Girl

Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change

Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change

This book is an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. The contributors, who are all engaged in academic literacy work at a South African university, use the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies as developed by theorists such as James Gee, Brian Street and Gnnther Kress, and apply this to a case study of one university in the changing context of South Africa.

Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change

Probability in Social Science

Probability in Social Science

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Probability in Social Science

Atheism as a Positive Social Force

Atheism as a Positive Social Force

Atheism is not just a denial of religion, it offers a basis for society beyond a belief in the supernatural. Converse explains how religions evolved, and sets forth the major lines of philosophical argument that support the position of atheism.

Atheism as a Positive Social Force

History

History

Homo sapiens have remained the same species, largely unchanged in genetic makeup and anatomy since the Cro-Magnon era. By contrast, the cultural, social, and technological changes since then have been nothing less than extraordinary. Telling our story, from prehistory to the present day, DK’s History is a thought-provoking journey, revealing the common threads and forces that have shaped human history.

History

Applied Nanotechnology

Applied Nanotechnology

An overview of nanotechnology that encompasses scientific, technological, economic and social issues investigating the potential of nanotechnology to transform whole sectors of industry from healthcare to energy. Jeremy Ramsden provides a blueprint for those involved in the commercialization of nanotechnology.

Applied Nanotechnology

Charisma and Myth

Charisma and Myth

Charisma and Myth combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life.

Charisma and Myth

Tudor and Elizabethan Fashions

Tudor and Elizabethan Fashions

Forty-five handsome, ready-to-color plates of illustrations depict all social classes in 15th- and 16th-century England from country workers in woolen tunics and leather boots and sailors in canvas breeches and shirts to officials in fur-trimmed robes and elegantly clad Tudor monarchs. Also, detailed drawings of period hairstyles, headgear, shoes, gloves, jewelry, more.

Tudor and Elizabethan Fashions