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Pursuing Trayvon Martin
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 74.99Pursuing Trayvon Martin explores the historical implications of the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, by George Zimmerman, in a gated community in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Possibly the first book to explore the case, it will make an important contribution as a source providing important analyses from which later... more...
Cognitive Social Psychology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95A comprehensive overview of the mechanisms involved in how cognitive processes determine thought and behavior toward the social world, Cognitive Social Psychology: *examines cognition as a motivated process wherein cognition and motivation are seen as intertwined; * reviews the latest research on stereotyping, prejudice, and the ability to control... more...
Cities at Risk
Springer 2013; US$ 99.00With the major growth of the worlds population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard... more...
Anxiety in a 'Risk' Society
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 51.95Few would dispute that we are living at a time of high anxiety and uncertainty in which many of us will experience a crisis of identity at some point or another. At the same time, news media provide us with a daily catalogue of disasters from around the globe to remind us that we inhabit a world of crisis, insecurity and hazard. Anxiety in a Risk Society... more...
Cultural Intelligence
Intercultural Press 2004; US$ 24.95This work provides a practical, down-to-earth approach for Westerners needing to enhance their work skills with immigrants and foreign employees; with clients, customers, counterparts or partners from other countries; and with the local workforce for those living and working abroad. more...
Social Construction in Context
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 60.00This latest book by one the world's leading protagonists in the field will be welcomed not just by psychologists but by students, academics and professionals interested in social constructionism across a wide range of subjects. Social Construction in Context explores the potentials of social constructionist theory when placed in diverse intellectual... more...
Risk and Society
SAGE Publications 2005; US$ 56.00This book provides a powerful and lucid account of risk in society today. Denney critically examines the social construction of risk, by considering a range of social theories, addressing the literature and providing an authoritative guide to the key issues raised. more...
Power to the People
Earthscan 2005; US$ 38.50Climate change power failures tanker spills and energy wars: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies right? Perhaps but Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran the environment and energy correspondent for The Economist sees great opportunity in the energy realm and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look... more...
Stereotype Dynamics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. Stereotype Dynamics assembles top researchers in the field to investigate stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation through interpersonal facets of communication. Section... more...
Risk, Uncertainty and Government
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 71.95Both risk and uncertainty are neo-liberal concepts, which can be viewed as complementary techniques for governing diverse aspects of life, rather than natural states of things. This new book examines the way these constructs govern the production of wealth through 'uncertain' speculation and 'calculable' investment formulae. The way in which risk... more...









