Social science / Sociology

China's Soft Power and International Relations

by Hongyi Lai & Yiyi Lu

China's soft power has attracted considerable attention in the recent decade. In this volume scholars from the U.K., Europe, the U.S., Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and mainland China, including a number of...

The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union: Identity, Discourse and Power in the Post-Communist Transition of Estonia, Latvia and L

by Richard Mole

The Baltic States are unique in being the only member-states of the EU to have fought to regain their sovereignty from the Soviet Union, only then to cede it to Brussels in certain key areas. Similarly, no member-states...

Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart

by Shahra Razavi & Silke Staab

Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on...

Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies

by Gerard Delanty

Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where, earlier, it had largely been a term associated with moral and political philosophy, cosmopolitanism...

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics

by Raghbendra Jha

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics addresses the recent economic transformation in South Asia. Leading experts in the field look at the major economic achievements and challenges for the region...

Emotions, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television

by Deidre Pribram

Popular film and television are ideally suited in understanding how emotions create culturally shared meanings. Yet very little has been done in this area. Emotion, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television...

Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within

by Lisa Lau & Ana Cristina Cristina Mendes

Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient...

Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in South Asia

by Prema-chandra Athukorala, Jayatilleke S. S. Bandara & Saman Kelegama

The link between trade liberalisation and poverty has arguably been one of the most debated topics in development policy debate. Existing studies on the subject have primarily used multi-country cross-sectional...

The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy

by Joan Quigley

The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire, beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his...

Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners

by Steven Petrow & Sally Chew

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

by Robert David Steele & Howard Bloom

What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence...

I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives

by Yuval Taylor & Charles Johnson

Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most...

Black Dawn, Bright Day: Indian Prophecies for the Millennium That Reveal the Fate of the Earth

by Sun Bear & Wabun Wind

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Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differe nces

by Leonard Md Phd Sax

Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences...

The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death

by Jill Lepore

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before...

The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Expanded Paperback Edition)

by Mae Ngai

The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip...

Economic and Trade Policies in the Arab World: Employment, Poverty Reduction and Integration

by Mahmoud A.T. A. T. Elkhafif, Sahar Taghdisi-Rad & Mutasim Elagraa

The Arab Spring and recent popular uprisings that have taken place in many Arab countries since the end of 2010 highlight the urgent need for economic policy reorientation in these countries. This book addresses...

Gender and Genetics: Sociology of the Prenatal

by Kate Reed

Prenatal screening for genetic disorders is becoming an increasingly widespread phenomenon across the globe. While studies have highlighted the importance of women's experiences of such screening, little is...

America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction

by Brian Alexander

Welcome to the America we don’t usually talk about, a place where that nice couple down the street could be saddling up for “pony play,” making and selling their own porn DVDs, or hosting other couples...

Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

by Cheryl Benard

In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the...