Sciences Sociales - Böcker

Incorporating the theoretical conceptualizations of Jon Kabat-Zinn and Ellen Langer, this volume illustrates how performers from a variety of disciplines - including sport, dance and music - can use mindfulness to achieve peak performance and impr...

Läs mer »

Like its bestselling predecessor, Multilevel Modeling Using R, Third Edition provides the reader with a helpful guide to conducting multilevel data modeling using the R software environment. After reviewing standard linear models, the authors pres...

Läs mer »

Recent changes in the global economy have brought about a massively devastating pillage of resources in the developing world by multinational corporations, as well as states with energy and food security concerns. These developments have also brou...

Läs mer »

In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmiss...

Läs mer »

The conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity as entirely compatible with a Ukrainian civic identity. The state's reluctance to recognize this...

Läs mer »

Significantly revised, the fifth edition of the most complete, accessible text now covers all three approaches to structural equation modeling (SEM)--covariance-based SEM, nonparametric SEM (Pearl's structural causal model), and composite SEM (par...

Läs mer »

News today is a genre "in flux". New kinds of news producers and novel means of distributing, sharing and using news align with alternative ways of understanding what news is. Based on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions amo...

Läs mer »

20th century European Fascism is conventionally described as a fierce assault on liberal politics, culture and economics. Departing from this analysis, The Appentice's Sorcerer highlights the long overlooked critical affinities between the liberal...

Läs mer »

"This is an inconvenient book, to use Berlant's term, bursting with generous readings of cultural and sociological criticism. Just what we need." -¿Yasmin Gunaratnam, Professor of Social Justice, Kings College London "An essential reading for all ...

Läs mer »

This volume offers a historical and critical analysis of the emerging field of the learning sciences, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and improving how children and adults learn. It features a wide range of authors, incl...

Läs mer »

Survey research is in a state of crisis. People have become less willing to respond to polls and recent misses in critical elections have undermined the field's credibility. Pollsters have developed many tools for dealing with the new environment,...

Läs mer »

A vast literature exists on theories of public opinion - how to measure, analyze, predict, and influence it; however, there is no synthesis of best practices for interpreting public opinion: existing knowledge is disparate and spread across many d...

Läs mer »

Known for its readability and clarity, this Second Edition of the best-selling Applied Regression provides an accessible introduction to regression analysis for social scientists and other professionals who want to model quantitative data. After c...

Läs mer »

It has become increasingly clear that economies can fruitfully be viewed as networks, consisting of millions of nodes (households, firms, banks, etc.) connected by business, social, and legal relationships. These relationships shape many outcomes ...

Läs mer »

Learn how to conduct a robust text analysis project from start to finish--and then do it again. Mining is the dominant metaphor in computational text analysis. When mining texts, the implied assumption is that analysts can find kernels of truth--t...

Läs mer »

* What do we mean by discourse? * What are the different conceptions of discourse and methods of discourse analysis in the contemporary social sciences? * How can this concept help to clarify key theoretical problems and illuminate empirical cases...

Läs mer »

This book is a timely and systematic analysis of Russian hybrid warfare with a particular focus on Russian cyberespionage and cyberwarfare. It especially analyzes Russian policy from the election of President Vladmir Putin in 2000 to date. It take...

Läs mer »

This book examines the Brazilian political process in the period of 2003-2020: the governments led by the Workers' Party and their reformist policies, the deep political crisis that led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the rise o...

Läs mer »

Written in non-technical language, this popular and practical volume has been completely updated to bring readers the latest advice on major issues involved in longitudinal research. It covers: research design strategies; methods of data collectio...

Läs mer »

The West is under challenge from the rise of China as a global power. Cyberespionage has enhanced China's economy, military, and political influence, and it is now a peer rival to the American-led West across land, sea, air, and space. China can c...

Läs mer »

Volume 1 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society explores the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfulness, in addit...

Läs mer »

Volume 2 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society continues the exploration of the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create mean...

Läs mer »

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address. Tracing the emotional and physical journeys ...

Läs mer »

Collins Social Sciences for Trinidad and Tobago is a brand-new activity-led course set in contexts relevant to Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean and suitable for lower secondary students everywhere. It has been specially developed to hel...

Läs mer »

Collins Social Sciences for Trinidad and Tobago is a brand-new activity-led course set in contexts relevant to Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean and suitable for lower secondary students everywhere. It has been specially developed to hel...

Läs mer »

Collins Social Sciences for Trinidad and Tobago is a brand-new activity-led course set in contexts relevant to Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean and suitable for lower secondary students everywhere. It has been specially developed to hel...

Läs mer »

Collins Social Sciences for Trinidad and Tobago is a brand-new activity-led course set in contexts relevant to Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean and suitable for lower secondary students everywhere. It has been specially developed to hel...

Läs mer »

Collins Social Sciences for Trinidad and Tobago is a brand-new activity-led course set in contexts relevant to Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean and suitable for lower secondary students everywhere. It has been specially developed to hel...

Läs mer »