Health Disparities and the Ancestral Environment
Health disparities among people of African descent have deep evolutionary roots. This book reveals how genetic adaptations that once protected against deadly infections in Africa now increase susceptibility to chronic diseases in North America.
Early Football Professionalism in Sheffield
Professional football’s origins are often linked to Lancashire, but this book reveals the true story of its beginnings in Sheffield. This is the first in-depth study of the early importation and payment of players, told through the lives of the individuals involved.
Immaterial Labor and Cultural Production
Immaterial labor is a central issue for understanding late capitalism. This book offers unsettling reflections on the inseparability of labor and culture, showing how the production of capitalist wealth has presented new features that require new critical thinking.
Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies
This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through tradition, art, and personal stories. With richly diverse voices, each page reveals startling insights into the construction of gender from a Jewish perspective.
This book investigates postcolonial identity through two Arab novels. It explores the shifting personas and homesickness of individuals in a changing world, highlighting the themes of romance and feminism to illuminate the characters’ experiences.
This book provides a framework for recruiting and retaining long-term volunteers, especially in health programs. It details a screening process to improve cost-efficiency by considering the motivations of volunteers, offering a novel way of conceptualizing volunteering.
The Sport Economist
Australians are sport-crazy, but what does it mean for our economy? Is hosting the Olympics worth it? Will cricket survive the T20 revolution? How can four codes of football thrive? Join a unique journey through the economics and business of sport.
The Paradoxical India
This collection of essays captures the vast dimensions of Indian cultural and literary traditions. Explore myths, tribal literature, and philosophies to understand India’s rich, multicultural society through its ancient landscape, contradictions, and contemporary advancements.
This collection examines how literary narratives shape, challenge, and redefine culture in India. Moving beyond Western frameworks, it explores themes of identity and power, from colonial legacies to Bollywood, arguing that literature not only reflects but reshapes society.
This book is a hands-on guide for human resources practitioners and researchers on how to assess the validity and reliability of standardized diversity scores. It provides practical examples using correlation and factor analyses to illustrate the assessment process.
The History of Fair City Athletic Football Club
In the 19th century Scottish football boom, many clubs rose but few survived. This is the story of one such club, Fair City Athletic, which blossomed in Perth to become the city’s predominant team, but missed by a whisker making it onto the major stage when seemingly well-set.
Journeys through the Ideological Unconscious
This book introduces the concept of the ideological unconscious, analyzing its expression in Spanish literature from feudalism to capitalism. It uncovers the historical intertwining of the ideological and the libidinal, upending assumptions in history and cultural theory.
This book analyses land grabbing and displacement in India. Based on fieldwork in Odisha and Jharkhand, it reveals the subsequent impoverishment and trauma, with a special focus on the tribal women who bear the brunt of displacement and lose their autonomy as migrant labourers.
Aspects of Social Justice in an Arab Israeli Teachers’ College
These essays shed a social justice-focused light on teacher education. Based on real-life experiences, contributors share practical strategies for supporting Arabic-speaking students in a multicultural setting. A vital resource for educators working in diverse environments.
Based on original research, this book explores the struggles of working women in Karachi, Pakistan. From managers to domestic workers, it reveals how women in each category are victims of a gender-biased society, fighting for survival in a male-dominated world.
This book challenges the myth that the UK’s post-war Welfare State was solely a Labour Party creation. It examines the contributions of figures like Churchill and Beveridge to argue that, over the half-century, the greater share of credit belongs to the Conservative Party.
This book explores how Taiwanese scholars adapted French feminist theories, applying the concept of écriture féminine (“feminine writing”) to Taiwanese cinema. It analyzes how women’s voices emerge when the camera becomes a cinematic pen in films like The Butcher’s Wife.
When rapid immigration challenged the Irish police, a pioneering solution was born: specialist Garda Ethnic Liaison Officers dedicated to building relations with new minorities. This book details that initiative, offering vital lessons for police and policymakers worldwide.
Race and Agency in Thomas Sowell
This book exposes the ideological dogmatism behind Thomas Sowell’s attacks on Black culture and calls to end preferential policies, revealing them as a direct threat to the ideal of an ethnically integrated society.
News over Five Millennia
Concentrating on the past 200 years, this book studies messengers and newsmen, focusing on news agency journalists. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, linguists, media professionals and “news addicts”.