Product Description: THE EARTH WAS NEVER OURS...Alex Miller trained for years in the Army, waiting for a war that never came. Now a corporate bodyguard and driver, he's about to bear witness to the end of the human race. An ancient ecology has reawakened, and like a Biblical plague it threatens to consume all life on Earth...read more

Product Description: Western industrial societies underwent a massive transformation during the 1980s, and this was particularly noticeable in the older cities whose economies were based on labour-intensive industry. In the period following World War II, racial and ethnic minorities who migrated from overseas, or from the rural areas within the same country, formed a pool of low-paid labour upon which the prosperity of the industrial city depended...read more

This title examines major schools of therapy including analytic therapy and practice, cognitively oriented work, humanistic therapies, systemic therapy, existential psychotherapy and constructionist therapies.

Product Description: The book presents the views of leading experts on both sides of the Atlantic on the changes to the social structure of cities as a result of recent migration. The contributors consider the link between globalization cities and existing zones of social exclusion, employment prospects for all residents and the likelihood of social mobility for recent arrivals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Does the concept of ethnicity divide the oppressed or unite minorities? Is the term `community' a dangerous fiction? What are the relations between the liberal capitalist democratic state and racialized minority groups? The contributors to this book confront and discuss these questions, bringing together ideas on urban social theory, contemporary cultural change and analysis of racial surbordination in order to explore the relationship between racism, the city and the state...read more

Product Description: Whatever else the 1980s may have done, they have set a new agenda for sociologists of work and labour markets. The essays in this book indicate the key tasks that must be addressed in tackling that agenda. First, to generate an accurate picture of what has actually occurred, far too little is known about what the implications of the changes have been...read more

Product Description: Ten years ago a book about the sociology of youth would have concentrated upon youth cultures and sub-cultures. Since then the situation of the young has changed dramatically and so have the sociological paradigms used to study them...read more

Product Description: The position of the descendants of Caribbean migrants to Europe is still a major cause of concern. This book provides a comparative analysis of two societies affected - the UK and the Netherlands.