(Paperback)

This study is a rich and readable collection of memoirs, some short, some extensive, of those who worked at Granada Television during the first 30 years of its existence. It captures a climate of creative activity now referred to as the Golden Years of British television.

(Hardback)

This book examines the changing depictions of grandparent culture from old to hip through celebrity grandparents, new forms of communication between grandparents and grandchildren, emerging rituals in grandparenting, the marketing of grandparenting as a new life stage, and the impact of the commodification of grandparenting on our culture.

(Hardback)

This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure. -- .

(Paperback)

This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure. -- .

(Paperback)

THIS BOOK IS A SELF HELP BOOK. IT BASES MOSTLY ON EXPERIENCE FROM LOVER, COUPLE, ALL OVER THE PLANET.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Was there a Cinderella tale in the ancient world

The volume begins by asking how we can attempt to define folklore in the first place, and how we can make sense of the vast amount of materials available.

(Paperback)

And why does the Green Man come in different shapes and sizes

In Green Men & White Swans, leading folklorist Jacqueline Simpson explores the fascinating stories behind pub names, uncovering the myths and legends, euphemisms and wordplays, heroes and even ghosts that have inspired pub landlords over the centuries.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Democrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier

(Paperback)

Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other This book reveals the untested - and unwanted - urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust.

(Hardback)

Based on surveys with over 850 participants, this book explores the ways in which well ownership shapes peoples beliefs and actions about water in Kansas. The author frames well owners as a community pivotal to safeguarding aquifers that is defined by their understanding of drought and reliance on aquifers.

(Hardback)

This annotated bibliography on the elderly aims to provide social workers, counsellors, group facilitators, activity directors, researchers and other mental health professionals, with a compilation of references found in the group work literature.

(Hardback)

This examination of A. Paul Hare's findings about groups, teams and social interaction shows how the author's arguments can be placed in the context of several theories, and discusses some applications that can be constructed for the analysis of various kinds of social situations.

(Hardback)

Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, ...

(Hardback)

Rich in detail, this work tells the story, often through the words of children themselves, of young people not only as part of the broader changes that have swept American life but as initiators of change in our everyday life, work and play, institutions and values.

(Hardback)

Counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health professionals, and all those working with teenage males will find this study of sex and gender issues, male bonding, psychosexual adjustment, situational ethics, and sexuality illuminating.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This volume is a critical case study of the press coverage of the corruption trial of former Guam Governor Ricardo Bordallo, who maintained a strong indigenous rights stance, and committed suicide for his people rather than serve a three-year jail sentence.

(Hardback)

National security has always been an integral consideration in immigration policy, never more so than in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

(Hardback)

This new guide is the first to provide an inventory of the remarkably vast, interdisciplinary African and African American holdings of primary material residing in 22 Harvard libraries and museums.

(Hardback)

Increasing diversity in American society demands information concerning the availablity of ethnic resources for teaching, for providing information to ethnic communities, and for conducting research.

(Hardback)

This unique and fascinating volume features every type of deity from every culture in all regions of the world, from prehistory to the present.

(Hardback)

In the early twentieth century poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of China. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, this book examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem."