Product Description: Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before...read more

Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: In life there are few, if any, moral absolutes for us to rely on, and facing an increasing array of choices we often lack the confidence of knowing we have made the right choice. In Right & Wrong, respected social commentator Hugh Mackay suggests some personal strategies that will make it easier to work out what is right and wrong for each of us in a particular situation...read more

Product Description: In life there are few, if any, moral absolutes for us to rely on, and facing an increasing array of choices we often lack the confidence of knowing we have made the right choice. In Right & Wrong, respected social commentator Hugh Mackay suggests some personal strategies that will make it easier to work out what is right and wrong for each of us in a particular situation...read more

Product Description: Montesquieu is often considered the first social thinker. Today, when 'the end of the social' has been proclaimed, it is time to reconsider its beginnings. In a wide-ranging, original interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws, this book explores what did it mean to 'discover the social', and what can it mean to recover the social today...read more

Product Description: Explores key issues in early childhood studies from a social science perspective, exploring how social science can offer explanations to many aspects of human behaviour.

Product Description: As the events management field expands as an area of study, there is a need to move beyond the business and marketing-driven approaches which dominate the literature towards a more advanced conceptual analysis and understanding of events from a socio-cultural context...read more

Product Description: Based on a comprehensive analysis of the second International Self-Report Delinquency study (ISRD-2), this book interprets one of the first large-scale international studies to ask 12-16 year olds about their victimization experiences.

Product Description: Research in the cognitive sciences has advanced significantly in recent decades. Computational cognitive modeling has profoundly changed the ways in which we understand cognition. Empirical research has progressed as well, offering new insights into many psychological phenomena...read more

Product Description: The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time...read more

Product Description: Lecturers, request your electronic inspection copy here This superb guide teaches you how to read critically.  Its no-nonsense, practical approach uses a specially developed reading code to help you read articles for your research project; this simple code enables you to decipher journal articles structurally, mechanically and grammatically...read more

Product Description: This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the second International Self-Report Delinquency study (ISRD-2). An earlier volume, Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond (Springer, 2010) focused mainly on the findings with regard to delinquency, victimization and substance use in each of the individual participating ISRD-2 countries...read more

Product Description: "The Strange Music of Social Life" presents a dialogue on dialogic sociology, explored through the medium of music. Sociologist and composer Michael Mayerfeld Bell presents an argument that both sociology and classical music remain largely in the grip of a nineteenth-century totalizing ambition of prediction and control...read more

Product Description: Through an examination of the work of a renowned scholar of Thailand, Tracks and Traces offers a wealth of insight into this dynamic and rapidly changing country. Andrew Turton’s anthropological studies of Thailand cover a wide spectrum, from politics and economy to ritual and culture, and have been crucial in shaping evolving understandings of Thai society...read more

Product Description: 'Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice' is a collection of essays that appeals to teachers and researchers of social sciences no matter the level of instruction. The essays deal with three main issues of social sciences in Europe and Asia nowadays: educational theory (education as a social phenomenon - active learning, continuous training, cultivation of creativity in schoolchildren, design and implementation of educational subsystems, environmental education, environmental-awareness, management strategies to homework, reform of the social protection system, youth education; theory and methodology of curriculum and of education - educational class, e-learning implementation; philosophy, psychology and sociology of education - counselling, education, educational principles, emotionality, focus, freedom, human needs, ideal, plagiarism, psycho-moral profile, research design, and self-confidence, sociability, value)...read more