Understanding Inequalities: Stratification and Difference (Platt Lucinda)(Paperback)

Understanding Inequalities: Stratification and Difference (Platt Lucinda)(Paperback)

Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and migration status, it demonstrates how these play out

The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences (Tang Yi-Yuan)(Paperback)

The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences explores the individual differences in learning and practicing meditation, while also providing insights on how to learn and practice effectively. The book comprehensively covers the research in brain areas and networks that

We Jews and Jesus: Exploring Theological Differences for Mutual Understanding (Sandmel Samuel)(Paperback)

An important contribution to the welcome growth of religious understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians. Filled with warm sympathy for Christianity but also with sturdy intellectual honesty and loyalty to Judaism, this classic work continues to clearly and forcefully guide both

Race, Class, and Gender: Intersections and Inequalities (Andersen Margaret L.)(Paperback)

Algebraic Inequalities: New Vistas (Andreescu Titu)(Paperback / softback)

This book starts with simple arithmetic inequalities and builds to sophisticated inequality results such as the Cauchy-Schwarz and Chebyshev inequalities. Nothing beyond high school algebra is required of the student. The exposition is lean. Most of the learning occurs as the student engages in the

Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities: A Practical Guide (Matheson James)(Paperback)

Addressing health inequalities is a key focus for health and social care organizations. This book explores how best frontline health workers in areas of deprivation can address these problems. Aimed at doctors and their wider multidisciplinary teams, this book provides key knowledge and practical

Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective (Grusky David B.)(Paperback)

Collins Big Cat -- The Mayans: Band 18/Pearl (Platt Richard)(Paperback)

Get an understanding of one of the world s ancient civilizations, and find out all about their way of life, intriguing rituals, and bizarre sports in this fascinating account of how the Maya first established themselves more than 20,000 years ago in Central America, and their eventual demise

Oscar and Lucinda (Carey Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian

Interaction Ritual Chains (Collins Randall)(Paperback)

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to

The Insight Discipline: Crafting New Marketplace Understanding That Makes a Difference (Fahey Liam)(Paperback)

In this re-published book The Insight Discipline: Crafting New Marketplace Understanding That Makes a Difference, Liam Fahey details the analysis methods and modes of deliberations required to overcome data challenges and create an insight-driven culture. He lays out the business case for why

Exalting Jesus in James (Platt David)(Paperback)

Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be 48 volumes, takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in

Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town (Robertson Leslie)(Paperback)

Imagining Difference is an ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC - a coal-mining town transforming into an international ski resort. Focusing on diverse experiences of people from the European diaspora, Robertson analyzes

Individual Differences and Personality (Ashton Michael C.)(Paperback)

Individual Differences and Personality, Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research on personality. The book begins with the main approaches to the study of personality, basic principles of personality measurement, the concept of personality traits, and the major dimensions of

Reading Upside Down - A funny and feel-good romantic comedy (Platt Jo)(Paperback / softback)

Individual Differences and Personality (Cooper Colin)(Paperback)

Personality and Individual Differences (Chamorro-Premuzic Tomas)(Paperback)

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership and vocational interests. This

Stratification and Differentiation (Kirby Mark)(Paperback)

This accessible text explores the staggering rise in inequality in recent years. It includes recent empirical material on all the key dimensions of inequality, including class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability, and considers both classical and new theoretical approaches to the study of these

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Williams James)(Paperback)

A new edition of this introduction to Deleuze's seminal work, Difference and Repetition, with new material on intensity, science and action and new engagements with Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall and de

Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis (Williams Fiona)(Paperback)

Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at both

Working with Difference and Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Cameron Rose)(Paperback)

Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences - A Reader (O'Reilly Andrea)(Paperback)

Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal,

Personhood, Illness, and Death in America's Multifaith Neighborhoods: A Practical Guide (Mosher Lucinda)(Paperback)

In this interfaith book Lucinda Mosher investigates different understandings of destiny, loss, death, and remembrance in America's many religions. Using stories and interviews with a variety of religious adherents and health professionals, the book wrestles with questions such as: how can our

Difference and Repetition (Deleuze Gilles (No current affiliation))(Paperback / softback)