Product Info Featuring an outstanding panel of Russian contributors, this collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars of politics, gender studies and Russian studies. more »

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Product Info This book is concerned with the unintended consequences of the incarceration of parents on children. more »

This book carves out a new area of democratisation studies by analysing the transnational dimension and the role of non state actors across three different geographical regions. Chapters use data from Europe, Africa and Latin America. more »

What are the problems that concern young people today? How do young people cope? This book presents the findings of a team of international researchers in order to find answers to these vital questi... more » more »

The collection addresses theoretical and policy issues connecting age and generation with the family and social policy. It focuses both on cross-cultural comparison within societies and analysis based on a range of societies. more »

... issues of mining communities in research spanning a period of 4,500 years. The volume considers themes which are relatively new to archaeology: * the social context of production * gender * power and labour exploitation * imperialism and colonialism * production and technology. more »

As history's first democracy, classical Athens invented political discourse. The Athenians, however, could not separate the political from the private sphere. Father-son relations, whether good or bad, were a major theme of public as well as private life. Perhaps most-often associated today with Sophocles ... more »

Product Info This collection of scholarly essays explores the relation of Hobbes' work to history as a branch of learning. more »

... their original social, cultural and performance context and mediate between ancient and modern ideologies. The four of Euripides plays covered are: * Medea * Alcestis * Helen * Iphigenia at Aulis. more »

This book studies tropical island resorts, the areas they occupy, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. An island resort is a special place - a pleasure periphery set apart from the mainland and from the mainstream - a community exhibiting many of the key characteristics ... more »

Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath investigates the ways in which Marx, Durkheim, Althusser and Habermas are all drawn towards foundationalism, and offers a framework for the analysis of foundationalism in social theory. more »