Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union provides a critical overview and evaluates the potential role of the EC in perpetuating and breaking down gender segregation in the EC labour force.more »

The reign of Charles I saw failures in war, the crisis of the 1640s, and ended with his execution. This book considers his personality, and the effects of his decisions as ruler. It provides an auth... more »

This is a guide to best practice in residential care homes. John Burton uses his extensive experience as a care consultant and realistic case studies to analyze common problems and proposes models t... more »

While the pitiful images of famine victims generally come from the very poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the entire region faces an intense economic crisis. This book looks at why this is so... more »

This book presents for the first time a sociological analysis of the cultural phenomenon, the Taj Mahal. It describes many of the tourist practices around the Taj as well as considering the notion o... more »

Showing how green social and political theory can be linked to practical struggles fro environmental and social change, Derek Wall investigates key topics of political and sociological interest in B... more »

This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change. All the key issues in environmental economics are covered.

Drawing on 20 years of research, this book looks at the reasons why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, l... more »

The European Economy argues that economists need a broader, worldwide base of information to accommodate the changes brought about by regionalism and globalism.

Explores the complex interrelationship that exists between the different ethnic, national and religious identities of Islam.

This book argues for the originality of Carl Menger's contribution to the development of the Austrian School of economics, against the dominant orthodoxy in the history of economic thought. more »

Ilias Arnaoutoglou explores the significance of legislation in ancient Greece, the differences and similarities between ancient Greek legislation and legislators and their modern counterparts.more »

A practical text that examines a range of sensitive issues concerned with managing and maintaining professional boundaries between worker and client.

In European Paganism, Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspect of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice and pilgrimage to luna worship.

This is the first general work to place the soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts. It focuses on the aim to create a new type of army that both protected the people ... more »

Complete with an introduction that summarises the state of the field, this book contains major reinterpretations by leading Holocaust authors along with key texts on testimony, memory, and justice a... more »

Macroeconomics is a highy complex topic and there are a number of different approaches to macroeconomic thought. This book explores the approaches as well as analyzing important episodes concerned w... more »

Barrett argues that Agrippina - mother of Nero, wife of Claudius and brother to Caligula - has been misunderstood and had much influence and power in her own right.

This book offers a powerful critique of the modernist philosophies that have led us to the brink of environmental and cultural collapse, and outlines a potent, co-evolutionary alternative. more »

Living Through Pop explores pop's history and the ways in which it has been produced by musicians, broadcasters, critics and fans.

The Newspapers Handbook is the first comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. It offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing and shows how reporting styles can ... more »

In Real Life Economics, the authors construct an economic framework with which to address the wider implications of the industrial economy. They illuminate and offer guidance about practical matters... more »

Illustrated throughout with informative diagrams and including chapter summaries, guides to further reading and an extensive glossary of key terms this text reveals how life has, and continues to ad... more »

This volume of essays explores the relationship between the natural and social worlds using general system theory.

This book is a completely revised edition of the popular first edition, Politics & Society in the Third World. The author has bought the book in line with the major changes in global politics and so... more »