Sociology and anthropology Books
Nova Science Publishers Inc Handbook of Social Interactions in the 21st
Book SynopsisSocial interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals (or groups) who modify their actions and reactions according to those of their interaction partner(s). In other words, they are events in which people attach meaning to a situation, interpret what others are meaning, and respond accordingly. Social interactions can be differentiated into: Accidental (also known as social contact) - not planned and likely not repeated. For example, asking a stranger for directions or shopkeeper for product availability. Repeated - not planned, bound to happen from time to time. For example, accidentally meeting a neighbour when walking on your street; Regular - not planned, but very common, likely to raise questions when missed. Meeting a doorman or a security guard every workday in your workplace, dining every day in the same restaurant, etc. Regulated - planned and regulated by customs or law, will definitely raise questions when missed. Interaction in a workplace (coming to work, staff meetings, playing a game, etc.), family, etc. In sociological hierarchy, social interaction is more advanced than behaviour, action, social behaviour, social action and social contact, and is in turn followed by more advanced concept of social relation. In other words, social interactions, which consist of social actions, form the basis for social relations. This handbook presents the latest international research in the field.
£176.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Social Professional Activity: The Search for a
Book SynopsisThere is an ongoing debate on the question if professional activities in the field of the social do actually have a genuinely ''own'' scientific basis or if their academic standing depends entirely on other disciplines as sociology, economics, administration or law. The present book offers an answer - by actually twisting the question into another direction: the question for the common denominator should not be employed by looking for the original disciplinary basis. Instead, it is more important to look at a common point of reference towards which activities - and research - can be geared. The editors propose human rights as such reference and make in their own introductory contribution clear that any contemplation on such rights cannot be limited on abstract moral and normative questions nor can it be left to the arbitrariness of cultural relativism. It is proposed to develop a systematic approach, not starting from a translation of abstract principles into their application in concrete situations. On the contrary, the concrete human practice and its analysis has to be taken as focal point. Some of the contributions directly take this topic up as matter by way of engaging in a general methodological discussion whereas other contributions deal with specific aspects of a field of social professions, showing the necessary variety of the pieces of a jigsaw on its own. The volume motivates students, scholars and professionals researching and working in the social array to think outside their ancestral box, focussing on sound and reasoned values rather than allowing abstract professional standards to take over.
£86.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Who Pays the Price?: Foreign Workers, Society,
Book SynopsisWhy is labour migration an issue of such public, social and political concern? How did it acquire such an importance? This book deals with exploitation on a massive scale. It is estimated that there are roughly 20 to 30 million unauthorised migrants world-wide, comprising 10%-15% of the world''s immigrant stock. The book focuses on migrant workers, accompanied by as many dependants, who are driven by circumstances beyond their control to work in a country other than their own, in a foreign society that cannot function without them. Most countries admit only a limited number of labour immigrants to meet their labour market needs and priorities. The papers presented in this book cover a wide range of areas from various aspects. The points of view on and from different countries try to look at the very complex subject of migrant labourers from three main aspects -- social, legal and criminological. Theses papers cover a wide range of areas such as - prejudices and racial intolerance, official policies, living and health conditions, psychological and psychiatry aspects, criminality and victimisation and human trafficking. Some of the papers advance the Conflict theory, which seeks to catalogue the ways in which those in power seek to stay in power. Others reflect on basic facts advanced by other sociological and criminological theories.
£107.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Sociology Research: Volume 10
Book SynopsisThis continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Topics discussed include secular trends in growth and maturity in Europe; mate selection and the optimisation of the marriage market; income range and its relation to well-being in Chinese society; population growth and policy options in Sub-Saharan Africa; social workers and racial disparities in cancer patients and perceptions of social mobility in the United States.
£139.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Urban Slums & the Social Production of Infant
Book SynopsisThis book utilises the first-difference panel regression analysis to assess the direct effect of urban slum prevalence or the proportion of the total population living in urban slum conditions on national level measures of infant mortality rates over the period 1990 to 2005. Utilising data on 81 less developed countries, the results illustrate increasing urban slum prevalence over the period is a robust predictor of increasing infant mortality rates. This effect obtains net the statistically significant influence of gross domestic product per capita, fertility rate, and female secondary school enrolment. The results confirm urban slum prevalence growth is an important contextual dynamic whereby the social production of infant mortality is enacted in the less developed countries.
£42.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Housing Choice Voucher Program
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£106.49
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on
Book SynopsisTypically, when we reference grief work in relation to anti-Blackness, people think about the grief experienced by those oppressed by white supremacy. But Breeshia Wade encourages those who are not Black to consider how their own unexplored grief amplifies the suffering of Black people.Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss—the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what''s already happened to us—as something that is connected to what we fear, what we love, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life, she connects sorrow not only to specific incidents but also to the ongoing trauma that is part and parcel of systemic oppression.Wade reimagines our relationship to power, accountability, and boundaries and points to the long-term work we must all do in order to address systemic trauma perpetuated within our interpersonal relationships. Each of us has a moral obligation to attend to our own grief so that we can responsibly engage with others. Wade elucidates grief in every aspect of our lives, providing a map back to ourselves and allowing the reader to heal their innate wholeness.
£13.99
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Afrikan Wisdom: New Voices Talk Black Liberation,
Book SynopsisA spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers.Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life--past, present, and future. Award-winning author and editor Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara)''s collection of 34 essays--written by an eclectic and inspirational group of Black thought leaders and teachers--reflects on the unique and multilayered experience of being Black in the world today. This anthology instills in readers the knowledge, awareness, validation, and spiritual tools necessary to nurture both individual and collective liberation. It is both an inspiration and a motivation for Black readers, as well as anyone else interested in reading about emerging spiritual voices. Topics include: • African and Afro-Diasporan cultures, histories, spiritualities, art, music, and literature • Black radical traditions of liberation and consciousness • Anticolonialism and antislavery • Buddhist philosophy • Social and environmental justice • The prison industrial complex and mass incarceration • (Kemetic) yoga, healing, and mindfulness • Intersections with Indigenous cultures • Addiction and recovery • Transgenerational trauma
£17.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Intercultural City Identity & Human Intercultural
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£92.99
Vajra Books Peasant Studies in Nepal
Book SynopsisAn academic book examines Nepal's peasant society under global capitalism, emphasizing academia and civil society collaboration. Eight scholars explore peasant rights and economy, with Dr. Suresh Dhakal focusing on peasants as anthropological categories and ethnographic subjects.
£20.62
The New York Review of Books, Inc Germs : A Memoir of Childhood
Book SynopsisA brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century.Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.
£15.29
John Libbey Eurotext Calculation of Health Expectancies:
Book SynopsisStemming from research of international experts in demography, epidemiology, gerontology, psychiatry, this book presents: a study of necessary conditions to compare several life expectancy computations in health, because current computation methods are different from one country to another; discussions of methods of interpretation of chronological life expectancy series; a survey of potential uses of life expectancy in health in order to allow sociosanitary planning; how to harmonise information collection and life computations.
£44.19
Transcript Verlag Postmigration – Art, Culture, and Politics in
Book SynopsisThe concept of "postmigration" has recently gained importance in the context of European societies' obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of "postmigration" and how it can be applied to arts and culture. While the concept has mainly gained traction in the cultural scene in Berlin, Germany, the contributions expand the field of study by attending to cultural expressions in literature, theatre, film, and art across various European societies, such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. By doing so, the contributions highlight this concept's potential and show how it can offer new perspectives on transformations caused by migration.
£35.99
Transcript Verlag Comfort in Contemporary Culture – The Challenges
Book SynopsisComfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of "getting out of your comfort zone" attest. This volume is the first to investigate "comfort" as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture. Taken together, the contributions to the volume offer an overview of different approaches to and conceptualisations of comfort in linguistics, in literary, media, and cultural studies, and art history. They showcase how "comfort" serves as a valuable lens to analyse contemporary artworks and developments, e.g. live theatre broadcasting or political interventions in the US-American media sphere.
£44.79
Transcript Verlag Good White Queers? – Racism and Whiteness in
Book SynopsisHow do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.
£35.99
Transcript Verlag Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot
Book SynopsisAs a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards "cobot" technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating - a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.
£26.34
Transcript Verlag Reading ′Black Mirror′ – Insights into Technology
Book SynopsisVery few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at offering insightful commentary on a number of issues contemporary society is facing. This timely collection draws on innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to provide unique perspectives about how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood through the contemporary post-media condition that drives technology use.
£30.59
Transcript Verlag Poetic Resurrection – The Bronx in American
Book SynopsisWhile many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that "The Bronx is burning," this study challenges that assumption. As the first explicit study on The Bronx in American popular culture, this book shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina A. Nitzsche argues that popular culture ushered in the poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, that preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough.
£31.19
Transcript Verlag Observing Conflict Escalation in World Society:
Book SynopsisHow do conflicts escalate? This is one of the major questions in conflict research. To offer further answers, Richard Bösch follows a tripartite agenda: First, he develops a constructivist methodology for the study of conflict escalation embedded in a Luhmannian systems theoretical world society perspective. Bösch argues that conflicts can be observed as social systems and he looks at the process of conflict escalation by analysing communication. Second, this analysis offers two cases studies: the Maidan protests in Ukraine 2013-2014 and Mali's crisis 2010-2012. Third, it gives impulses on how systems theoretical research can further on be beneficial for Peace and Conflict Studies.
£49.59
Transcript Verlag Emotional Drivers of Innovation
Book SynopsisInnovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sorgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process. Instead of assuming that the innovation process is subject to rational and linear creativity, the study adopts the notion of moral economies by Lorraine Daston as a space for negotiation. Such an approach enables decision-makers to question the evaluation criteria and patterns for technological developments before implementing them in society.
£35.99
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Global Social Sciences: Under European
Book SynopsisThe European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by subaltern social sciences, their talking back, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences towards a critique from Southern social sciences of Western social sciences has somehow turned Southern as well as Western social sciences into competing contributors to the same globalising social sciences. Both are no longer arguing about the European approach to social sciences but about which social thought from which part of the globe prevails. If the critique becomes a part of what it opposes, one might conclude that the European social sciences are very adaptable and capable of learning. One might, however, also raise the question whether there is anything wrong with the criticism of the European social sciences; or, for that matter, whether there is anything wrong with the European social sciences themselves. The contributions in this book discuss these questions from different angles: They revisit the mainstream critique of the European social sciences, and they suggest new arguments criticising social science theories that may be found as often in the Western as in the Southern discourse.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Contributions to Alternative Concepts of
Book SynopsisIn the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as indigenous knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenisation of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of peripheral social sciences to join the theories of the centres. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.
£23.99
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Academic Culture -- An Analytical Framework for
Book SynopsisThat we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorising applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice -- except in regard to the social sciences and how they practice the creation of knowledge. How academics in the social sciences across the world create knowledge is no topic for cultural theories. Social science theorising seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. Kazumi Okamoto presents the development of an analytical instrument that helps study academic culture, analyse academic practices of how social sciences create and distribute knowledge, and the influence the academic environment has on their knowledge productions. Applying this theoretical tool to the academe in Japan, she further presents a case study about how social scientists in Japan interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic environment. Studying the academic culture in the case of Japan, she reveals that not only the academic practices and the academic environment of the academe in Japan show much less diversities than cultural theories tend to presuppose, but that the assumption that creating social science knowledge does not know cultural diversities is an error as well.
£27.99
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Mass Murder and Serial Murder – An Integrative
Book SynopsisWhile Mass murder refers to the murder of several people at the same time, "serial murder" describes several killings by the same perpetrator in a repetitive pattern. Usually these incidents count a high toll of victims and create significant anxiety in the public. Yet, the rate of finding murderers in these cases is relatively very low, especially in serial murders; that is if they are ever caught at all. Arnon Edelstein examines the various categories of mass murder and serial murder and suggests a new category: mass-serial murder. He presents and criticizes the most up-to-date research and theoretical literature in the field and suggests an integrative theoretical model. This groundbreaking volume is intended for criminologists, psychologists, sociologists, students, and readers who are interested in truly understanding the complicated aspects of this fascinating field of investigation.
£28.80
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine in Histories and Stories – Essays by
Book SynopsisThis collection of texts by writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukrainian history and analyses of the present with outlines of conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a multi-faceted image of Ukraines memory and reality touching upon topics from the Holodomor to Maidan, from the Russian aggression to cultural diversity, from the depth of the past to the complexity of the present. The contributors include Ola Hnatiuk, Irena Karpa, Haska Shyyan, Larysa Denysenko, Hanna Shelest, Andriy Kulakov, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Serhii Plokhy, Yuri Andrukhovych, Andriy Kurkov, Andrij Bondar, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Volodymyr Rafeenko, Alim Aliev, Leonid Finberg, and Andriy Portnov. The book was initially published by Internews Ukraine and UkraineWorld with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.Trade Review"[The book] includes everyone from internationally renowned academics like Harvards Serhii Plokhiy to never-before-translated poets, that seek to articulate Ukraine to the wider world. [ It] gives Ukrainians a chance to explain their country themselves, and the Ukraine that emerges is uncannily relevant at a time when so many countries are undergoing identity crisesnot least the United States."Peter Pomerantsev, journalist, author, and TV producer, in The American Interest (January 2020)
£18.00
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular
Book SynopsisAfrican cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality. Izuu Nwankwá's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.Table of ContentsForeword by Ebenezer Obadare; Introduction; Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and its Dispersal across Africa; Confronting Racism and Colonialism in Cécile Djungas and Trevor Noahs Stand-up Comedy; South African Vernacular Stand-Up Comedy as Performative Resistance; The Peoples Joker: The Popularity of Mr Jokes Stand-up Comedy in Malawi; Resisting Shame and the Male Gaze: Humour Evocations in the Acts of Noha Kato and Real Warri Pikin; Discourse and Humour Strategies in Two-Person Stand-up Art in Nigeria; In the Shadow of the 1994 Genocide: Arthur Nkusi and Stand-up Comedy in Rwanda; The Afterlife of Ugandan Stand-up Comedy: Examining the Multiple Roles and Jocular Devices of Teacher Mpamire; Scripted and Non-Scripted Humour in Stand-up Comedy: Techniques of Egypts Comedian Ali Quandil; Reinventing Taboo in Kenyan Stand-up Comedy; Africa on the British Stage: Laughter-Making Mechanics of Andi Osho and Daliso Chaponda; Theres No Such Thing as Too Soon Here: Taking Stock of South Africas Comedy Boom; The Many-Sides of Kenyan Stand-up Comedy: A Stylistic Interrogation of the Acts of Jemutai, Professor Hamo and Oga Obinna; Nigerias The Mock News with Pararan: The Poetics of its Punchline; About the Contributors; Endorsements.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Kharkiv Is a Dream
Book SynopsisWhen the war hit Kharkiv in 2022, the urban space transformed at a scale impossible for its inhabitants and artistic community to process. As it turns out, the urban space of Kharkiv was difficult to process long before the impact of drones and missiles. Kharkiv has been transforming for centuries, collecting monuments and memories from the ebbs and flows of history. The authors zoom in on three events over the past decade that reflect how different actors used the cityscape of Kharkiv to make sense of and shape their context: Architect and visual artist Vasylysa Shchogoleva explores the urban space of Kharkiv in 2023 as a place of healing and compassion. Cultural anthropologist Viktoriia Grivina takes us back to 2018 when a piece of street art on a wall became the epicenter of a community conflict. Anthropologist Hjørdis Clemmensen opens a window to the workshop of a group of architecture students in 2013 who wished to not only influence the space around them but also time itself.
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Transcript Verlag Tensions and Convergences – Technological and
Book SynopsisThis book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, individual and society in the image of technology. They focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains - among others - texts about technologies of visualisation, the aesthetics of warfare and the design of technological lifeworlds.
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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Modern Nepal
Book SynopsisNepal is the ancient land of an ancient people. It lies on the southern slopes of the Central Himalaya, and adjoins China and India. Until the second half of the eighteenth century, or until the 1768-69 to be precise, the name "Nepal" denoted only the valley of the Bagmati River, where Kathmandu, the capital of present-day Nepal, is situated.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Patrons, Devotees and Goddesses: Ritual and Power
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Cultural Cooperation in South Asia: The Search
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Deep & Deep Publications Socio-economy of India: The First 50 Years and
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Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd One World Family: The Goal of the Twenty First
Book SynopsisIs a universal world order mere conjecture and an utopian dream? Or is it a foregone conclusion? A book that exhorts the reader to publicly express his views on creating a world union and brotherwood of man so that a feasible approach towards it can be chalked out.
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Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd Puppy Beneath the Beam
Book SynopsisA stark picture of rural degeneration. A vivid portrayal of rampant casteism and growing unrest in rural society as seen through the eyes of its young protagonist who survives an avalanche of ordeals, all the while managing to maintain to hold on to his dreams.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociological Study of Religion
Book SynopsisThe text discusses various aspects of religion, including its relationship with culture, ideology, rationality, conflict, and legitimation. It explores the intersection of sociology, philosophy, theology, history, psychology, and geography in understanding religious phenomena and their impact on society.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of Indian Politics: Theoretical
Book SynopsisPolitical culture in modern India explores themes of tolerance, integration, economic development, changing behavior, nationalism, religion, secularism, and social change. Key figures like Gandhi, Nehru, and Rajagopalachari shape the discourse on politics, religion, and communalism in Indian society.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of Indian Politics
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Cosmo Publications Sociology of World Religions
Book SynopsisSociology of religion analyzes religion's influence on society, studying its impact on relationships and behavior. It delves into social movements, myths, and daily actions, exploring topics like class, conflict, sects, and the connection between religion and politics, science, and technology.
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Kalpaz Publications Schedule Castes Education: Issues and Aspects
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Isha Books Role of NGOs in Development of Social System
Book SynopsisNGOs play a crucial role in various aspects of society, from education to poverty alleviation. Despite limited decision-making authority, they have grown in influence globally, receiving support from governments and contributing to the United Nations. The book explores the forms, roles, and implications of NGOs in social development.
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Pentagon Press Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination &
Book SynopsisThe killing of Osama bin Laden spotlighted Pakistan?s unpredictable political dynamics, which are often driven by conspiracy theories, paranoia, and a sense of betrayal. In Pakistan, the late prime minister Benazir Bhutto famously declared that there is ?always the story behind the story.? In The Pakistan Cauldron, James P . Farwell explains what makes Pakistani politics tick. Farwell has advised the Department of Defense on terrorism, sovereignty, and the political issues in the Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan. Here he reveals how key Pakistani political players have inconsistently employed the principles of strategic communication to advance their agendas and undercut their enemies. Pakistan is an enigma to many. Only by understanding the complex forces that shape Pakistani leaders can we uncover their shifting political agendas and how they affect America and the West. Farwell explains how and why former president Pervez Musharraf clamped down on nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan and isolated him. He assesses Benazir Bhutto?s unique legacy and analyzes how Musharraf handled the aftermath of her assassination. He explains Pakistan?s current instability and demonstrates how the country?s emotional reaction to bin Laden?s death is best understood as the outcome of long-standing political dynamics. The Pakistan Cauldron is for anyone who needs to know why Pakistan continues to pose increasingly difficult challenges for the United States and the West.
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The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Domestic Environment and Health of Women and
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd An ABC of Indian Culture
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Museum Tusculanum Press Nuussuarmiut: Hunting Families on the Big
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Museum Tusculanum Press The Byways of the Poor: Organizing Practices and
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Museum Tusculanum Press Ethnologia Europaea vol. 30:2
Book SynopsisEthnologia Europaea vol. 30:2
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Museum Tusculanum Press Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities
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International Labour Office World employment and social outlook 2015: the
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