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Life Choices
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 33.00Includes CD-Rom 'Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile..teachers, parents and carers worry that the decisions that children and young people make might be unwise or dangerous' - Bertrand Russell 'You'd be hard pushed to find a better decision-making programme than this excellent set of books... This series... more...
Developing Civil Society
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 120.00Addressing an important issue from a new perspective, this provocative and challenging book illustrates how a positive human factor is essential not only to developing, but also industrialized countries. It is ideal as supplementary reading for classes in political sociology, criminal justice, development studies and philosophy. more...
Biomedicine as a Contested Site
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 29.99This volume presents biomedicine as a site of contestation and conflicts, of processes of adaptation, accommodation, and of resistance, in a unique relationship with colonization and social control in a medical encounter that signaled the limits of State control of indigenous populations. more...
In Search of Lost Meaning
University of California Press 2011; US$ 35.00In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik?one of Europe?s leading dissidents?traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of history, memoir, and political critique, In Search of Lost Meaning shines a spotlight on the changes... more...
Promoting Diversity and Social Justice
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 36.95Promoting Diversity and Social Justice provides theories, perspectives, and strategies that are useful for working with adults from privileged groups?those who are in a more powerful position in any given type of oppression. The thoroughly revised edition of this accessible and practical guide offers tools that allow educators to be more reflective... more...
Promoting Diversity and Social Justice
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 40.00This book offers educational and psychological perspectives to inform practice and increase options in addressing conflict situations. The first part of the book helps the educator understand the reasons for resistance and ways to prevent it. The second part explains how educators motivate dominant groups to support social justice. This book is an... more...
Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original framework of human rights. Topics covered include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, tourism, and many more. more...
The Heart Is a Little to the Left
Dartmouth College Press 2012; US$ 12.99"An abundance of wisdom in an economy of words" by an activist preacher more...
The Age of Consent
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 32.00The Age of Consent; Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship addresses the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated. The text includes: ·A unique history of age of consent laws in the UK, analysed via contemporary social theory ·A global comparative survey of age of consent laws and relevant international human rights... 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...









