Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (Molotch Harvey)(Paperback)

Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (Molotch Harvey)(Paperback)

View 'Public Restrooms' A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don't touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact. And for

Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order (Davis Alexander K.)(Paperback)

Today's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United States--one that concerns more than mere 'potty politics.' Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred

Unacknowledged Legislation - Writers in the Public Sphere (Hitchens Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest

Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Huyssen Andreas)(Paperback)

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New

The Politics of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing (Rubin Irene S.)(Paperback)

Using a 'power struggles' theme to examine the dynamics of budgeting, Rubin's classic text shines a bright light on the political jockeying between interest groups, parties, officials, policymakers, and the public. Expert at explaining budgeting changes over time, Rubin sets issues like the federal

Performing Process (Meehan Emma)(Pevná vazba)

The chapters in this collection examine the methods, politics and philosophy of sharing choreographic process, aiming to uncover theoretical repercussions of and the implications for forms of knowledge, the appreciation of dance, education and artistic

The Sex Offender Register: Politics, Policy and Public Opinion (Thomas Terry)(Paperback)

The Sex Offender Register examines the origins, history, structure and legalities of the UK sex offender register, and explores how political and public opinion has influenced the direction the policy of registration has taken.Delving into the origins of the UK sex offender register and how the

Public Policy in the Community (Taylor Marilyn)(Paperback)

The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active communities are essential for tackling a range of social, economic and political challenges, such as crime,

Public Finance, Global Edition (Rosen Harvey)(Paperback / softback)

Provides the economic tools necessary to analyze government expenditure and tax policies and, along the way, takes students to the frontiers of current research and

Sharing Security: The Political Economy of Burden Sharing (Chalmers M.)(Paperback)

Sharing Security is a unique and comprehensive study of a key yet often neglected feature of modern international society. It begins by assessing how political theory can contribute to an understanding of international burdensharing. It then analyses in turn why some Western states contribute more

The Politics of Aesthetics (Rancire Jacques)(Paperback)

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranci re reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the

Politics of Public Space Volume 2 (Georgiou Myria)(Paperback / softback)

Why Capitalists Need Communists: The Politics of Flourishing (Seaford Charles)(Paperback)

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. At the same time, the political and economic elite seem to have reached an impasse: there is a sense that things can only

Health Policy, Power and Politics: Sociological Insights (Calnan Michael)(Paperback)

In the context of substantial changes in health service policy and public health policy in England over the last two decades, Health Policy, Power and Politics fills an important gap by providing an up-to-date and accessible account of recent trends in health policies and a sociological analysis of

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII (Lindsey Karen)(Paperback)

A fascinating, revisionist look at 16th century English politics (both public and private), examining the lives of Henry VIII's six wives as active personalities 'Provocative thoughts on the why and wherefore of the matrimonial quests of Henry VIII and the women who were party to them.'--Denver

Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (Ray Avishek)(Pevná vazba)

From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious

Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (Herrera Veronica)(Paperback)

Most of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service

The Promise of Politics (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section of

If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography (Fassin Didier)(Paperback)

What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public moment as part and parcel of the research process, the contributors to If Truth Be Told explore the

Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible (Escobar Arturo)(Paperback)

In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Mahmood Saba)(Paperback)

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement

Public Administration: A Very Short Introduction (Theodoulou Stella Z.)(Paperback)

Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our

Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health (Kohl Harold W.)(Paperback)

The first textbook to clearly define the intersection of kinesiology and public health, Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health, Second Edition With Web Resource, has been newly updated to reflect the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans issued by the U.S. Department of Health

The Politics of the Police (Bowling Benjamin)(Paperback)

The fifth edition of the popular and highly acclaimed The Politics of the Police has been completely revised, expanded, and updated to take in recent changes in the law, policy, and organization of policing. Benjamin Bowling, Robert Reiner, and James Sheptycki, regarded as leading figures in the