The fifth edition of this book extends the discussion of the challenges faced by urban sociology in the global age, while covering the issues traditionally ...

This book consists of fourteen interviews with Mexican-American community activists of various stripes in San José.

Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining ...

Boys of the Cloth presents a unique analysis of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, combining a first-hand account of seminary life during ...

A variety of contributors discuss the impact of such Japanese cultural exports as anime, manga, and electronic/video games and explain why these forms ...

This collection of scholarly publications compare practices of librarianship between countries. The studies included represent a broad spread of themes ...

This book provides a compact and up-to-date presentation of Jürgen Habermas’ oeuvre, with particular reference to his theory of communicative ...

The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen explores the surprising political resonance of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's portrayals of Borat, Ali G, and ...

Contested Images offers a collection of 17 essays that analyze the representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and ...

With the start of the 21st Century, information services around the world are facing a host of challenges and changes unique to this era of exponential ...