This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation’s history.... Læs mere
This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With... Læs mere
In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite... Læs mere
Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of... Læs mere
Addressing questions of control, transgression and the primacy of social relationships in fun, The Sociology of Fun is intended to provoke discussion about how we want to have fun and who determines the fun we have.
The business challenges of organizations are increasingly complex; strategists need a rich choice of approaches in order to respond. Too... Læs mere
The financial sector is the talk of the global village. This book highlights that, before asserting that the... Læs mere
Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for the modern age, and defined a model of stardom that is still with us today.
Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood.
This second volume of the book Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory focuses on the theory of output and growth as developed in the modern revival of classical approach.
In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for... Læs mere