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This seventh volume of the annual Index to International Public Opinion contains data from public opinion polls conducted primarily from the spring of 1984 through the first half of 1985 in all major regions of the world.

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Analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947 onwards. This work suggests that carefully reading the production of a diasporic sensibility, one that is not simply an outgrowth of the nation-state, helps us to conceive of multiple imaginaries, of America, England, and India, as articulated to one another.

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This book examines Indian women's perception of their work and family lives at the intersection of postmodernity and tradition through the lenses of society, socialization, and agency. In interviews with seventy-seven women, this book demonstrates how Indias daughters make personal and professional choices that privilege families over careers.

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Examines the struggle for equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release of the Sachar Committee report of 2006, which sparked widespread awareness of socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religious minorities in India, especially Muslims. The contributors are some of the most eminent social scientists in the fields of applied economics, politics, sociology and demography.

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This book evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa. It proposes a set of mechanisms by which the best elements of indigenous knowledge and skills in conflict management may be deployed to settle contemporary disputes and made portable for adoption and adaptation by other complex societies in the region and beyond.

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This encyclopedia describes how intrusive activities such as mining, tourism, and dam building are damaging the environments of indigenous people around the world. Entries frequently describe the situation in whole countries and regions and other times focus in on the experiences of a particular ind

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Indigenous essays in honour of Linda Tuhiwai Smith celebrate the positive, shifting ground of how Indigenous writers are shaping the post-colonial research world

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In the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats. This book addresses the threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and the health of other species in the environment.

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Presents industrial ruins and explains what they can tell us about ourselves and our past. It is their fragmentary nature and lack of fixed meaning that render ruins meaningful. This book highlights the danger of eradicating such urban sites through policies that privilege homogeneous new developments.

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Presents industrial ruins and explains what they can tell about ourselves and our past. It is their fragmentary nature and lack of fixed meaning that render ruins meaningful. This book highlights the danger of eradicating such urban sites through policies that privilege homogeneous new developments.

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Represents a survey of research which aims to open up different perspectives on many European countries. The theme of social inequality is divided into sections on income, property, employment, education, housing, illness and death. This book also attempts to develop arguments about the relationship between industrialisation and social inequality.

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A survey of research that opens up different perspectives on a number of European countries. It divides the theme of social inequality into sections on income, property, employment, education, housing, illness and death. It attempts to develop many arguments about the relationship between industrialisation and social inequality.

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This book analyses what generates the extreme inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods in contemporary societies across the world today. -- .

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This book analyses what generates the extreme inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods in contemporary societies across the world today. -- .

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Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society.

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This volume examines the fundamental questions about what journalism in the age of information means in an international context. The book aims to act as both an introduction for students and a critical examination of the dominant theories in journalism studies.

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This volume analyzes how information and the new information technologies and processes are being used to overcome the multiple crises afflicting the U.S. and other advanced, industrial, market societies. The book focuses on development of the new technologies to create new industries to make up for older ones lost to international competition;

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Unintentional injuries (car crashes, drowning, burns) are a leading cause of death to young children. Child abuse, infectious diseases and food poisoning also affect children under five. This bibliography provides information useful to those who care for or are responsible for young children.