Animal Rights - Political and Social Pb (Kean Hilda)(Paperback / softback)

Animal Rights - Political and Social Pb (Kean Hilda)(Paperback / softback)

In the early twenty-first century animals are news. This title looks at the cultural and social role of animals from 1800 to the present at the way in which visual images and myths captured the popular imagination and encouraged sympathy for animals and outrage at their

Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Donaldson Sue)(Paperback)

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of

Atlas of Human Rights - Mapping Violations of Freedom Worldwide (Fagan Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Human rights have become synonymous with legal, political, social and even economic justice - as a means of overcoming oppression and discrimination irrespective of nationality, class, creed, gender, ethnicity, or ideological commitment. This title reveals the inequities within the various

Political Power and Social Classes (Poulantzas Nicos)(Paperback / softback)

Defending Animal Rights (Regan Tom)(Paperback)

More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in normative ethical theory. 'Defending Animal Rights' addresses the key isues in this sometimes acrimonious

Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice (Ife Jim)(Paperback)

Social Work and Social Welfare: A Human Rights Foundation (Van Wormer Katherine)(Paperback)

Unique in its use of a human rights framework, Social Work and Social Welfare goes beyond American borders to examine U.S. government policies-including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice-within a global context. Guided by the belief that forces from the global market

The Social Animal (Aronson Elliot)(Paperback)

Focusing on research to introduce modern social psychology, Social Animal takes the patterns and motives of human behavior to analyze distinct topics like terrorism, conformity, obedience, politics, race relations, advertising, war, interpersonal attraction, and the power of religious

Keane - The Autobiography (Keane Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Including new chapters and covering events, tis book deals Roy Keane's life and

The Public History Reader (Kean Hilda)(Paperback)

Drawing on theory and practice from five continents, The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history as it places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or those working in education, at the heart of

Applying a Human Rights Approach to Social Work Research and Evaluation: A Rights Research Manifesto (Maschi Tina)(Paperback)

Introduction.- Understanding and Applying a Human Rights Framework.- Research and Evaluation that Makes a Difference.- Informed Decision-Making, Multiple Perspectives, Approaches, and Methods.- Social Contexts, Meaningful Participation, Relational Communication.- Holistic Analysis, Discerning

Moranthology (Moran Caitlin)(Paperback / softback)

Including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag, this title also deals with subjects such as Caffeine; Ghostbusters; Being Poor; Twitter; Caravans; Obama; Wales; Paul McCartney; The Welfare State;

A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism (Perry Michael J.)(Paperback)

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly

Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media (Woolley Samuel C.)(Paperback)

Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive,

Order, Order! - The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking (Wright Ben)(Paperback / softback)

The paperback of this fascinating and entertaining social history of politics and

Future (Gore Al)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, this title explores what the author calls the 'Drivers of Global Change', framing the international conversation about the future in

Power Of Ideas (Berlin Isaiah)(Paperback / softback)

These essays focus on the social and political role - past, present and future - of ideas and of their progenitors. Contents include 'My Intellectual Path', an autobiographical survey of Berlin's main preoccupations, and 'Jewish Slavery and Emancipation', the classic statement of his Zionist

Collected Works (Lenin V. I.)(Paperback / softback)

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century, capitalism,

A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research (Moore Will H.)(Paperback)

Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a math camp or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills. Available textbooks are written for

Human Rights and Schooling: An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social Justice (Osler Audrey)(Paperback)

Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction (DeGrazia David)(Paperback)

This volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting modelsfor

Postmodernism - Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Jameson Fredric)(Paperback / softback)

Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of

Raitt on Evidence: Principles, Policy and Practice (Keane Eamon)(Paperback / softback)

Discourse Theory and Political Analysis - Identities, Hegemonies and Social Change(Paperback / softback)

One of the few books which systematically brings post-structuralist theory to bear on substantive political analysis. Offers accessible accounts of different strands of discourse theory such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis and genealogy, which are applied to the analysis of specific cases such as