This book provides empirical research on controversial media. How are users affected by erotica? Do violent depictions increase violence in society? How does political content, from media bias to online content, affect voters?
Beyond the Hijab Debates
Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.
An explosive insider account from 25 years at the Israeli Government Press Office. Discover the untold story of how journalists manipulated coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, creating a false narrative. A vital wake-up call for a free press.
This book illustrates the role of political, economic and social factors in solving the social problems caused by neoliberalism in Russia, India, and South Africa. It details rational strategies to address gaps in socio-economic development and social policy.
This book offers a view of the science behind crime scene investigations, demonstrating the connection between forensic science and physics. It details the basic physics needed to understand crime scene findings and will appeal to students and any reader interested in forensics.
Scholars offer perspectives on fostering an inclusive campus. Essays explore lessons from the COVID crisis, promoting diversity through literature and language, and advocating for underrepresented students to prepare them for global leadership with cultural intelligence.
In a world of facts without why, our culture swings between extremes. This book analyzes the shift from seeking Truth to asserting subjective meanings, lighting a path out of the chaos so we can live wisely and peacefully once more.
This book is a hands-on guide for practitioners and researchers on how to measure workplace diversity using the Index of Qualitative Variation (IQV). With real data examples, it illustrates the use of regression methods to assess how organizational factors influence diversity.
This book explores our spiritual and emotional connection to trees. It challenges the historical view of trees as resources to be used, calling for a shift from domination and irreverence to respect, care, and even kinship.
Reflections on the World of Human Inspirations
Inspiration defines who we are. But what are its sources and can we control them? This book analyzes the historical, cultural, and political moments that ignite our passions, questioning the status quo and challenging us to find inspirations for a truly advanced world.
Explore theories and research on social influence. This book covers methods from advertising and propaganda to public relations, examining source credibility, the third-person effect, media agenda-setting, and the effectiveness of government communication campaigns.
Changing Societies
From migration to environmental crises and the rise of AI, our societies are in constant movement. This volume explores how populations confronted with such social changes are affected, and how these dynamics can foster new ways of individual or collective decision-making.
Responsible Reproductive Choice in the 21st Century
With reproductive rights under threat, this vital book examines pregnancy termination from historical, social, and legal angles. It builds a justified and balanced argument for choice, grounded in a compelling ethics of responsibility.
This guide to retiree destinations worldwide is based on research and hands-on testimonies. Hear directly from retirees in Spain, Canada, and Ecuador, and learn what factors to consider. Chapters include destination profiles based on personal interviews with locals.
This volume brings together innovative research across Iberian Studies. The collection includes cutting-edge work on memory politics, dictatorships, the Spanish Civil War, and colonial exchanges, exploring themes of migration, resistance, trauma, sexuality, and feminism.
Discourses on Disability bridges academic and personal voices from India to deconstruct ableism. Narratives from people with disabilities examine how it feels to exist in a world of cultural taboos, challenging the systemic silence around disability in India.
Delving into radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, this book exposes a hidden front: female terrorism. It uncovers the causes of women’s extremism and reveals their crucial, often overlooked, role in terrorist networks, shattering the myth of their non-involvement.
Human Trafficking
Using the accounts of twenty-six women, Maria De Angelis explores women’s stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. This book will be of interest to students undertaking courses in modern slavery, human geography, police studies, social work, and criminology.
Each wave of technological innovation and economic freedom has fueled a destructive cycle of consumerism and ecological degradation. This book is a stark warning: our addiction to growth is driving us to our demise. Hybel challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths.
A History of the American Nonprofit Sector
This history of the American nonprofit sector covers its independence in a seminal 19th-century Supreme Court decision, its 20th-century professionalization, and modern challenges like lobbying. It also analyzes nonprofits in pop culture. A key text for researchers and students.