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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 »

This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences within the Caribbean, to North America and to Europe. 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 »

Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature ... 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 »

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 »