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.
Alpine Refugees
This collection of essays highlights how Alpine territories are facing challenges from migration, and how these can trigger policy innovations with beneficial impacts for both migrants and local inhabitants. It will appeal to practitioners, social scientists, and policy makers.
Considering Leadership Anew
Traditional leadership recipes are not enough to cope with a chaotic world. This book compiles essays on alternative leadership theory from leading authors who defend unorthodox approaches, exploring leadership from novel lenses from the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Sociothermodynamics
Why do social groups segregate in hard times and mix in affluent ones? This book uses game theory and thermodynamics to show that segregation can be beneficial for all—like sugar separating in cold water. In the long run, however, social evolution leads to a homogeneous mix.
Experiences of Academics from a Working-Class Heritage
While higher education welcomes diverse students, it predominantly employs middle-class academics. Based on candid interviews, this book explores the experiences of academics from working-class backgrounds, as both students and staff, from their early careers to the present day.
The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld
Is social welfare a mechanism for promoting altruism, or a self-reproducing system of law and politics? This book questions if our understanding can keep pace with the changing economic and political conditions of a neo-liberal global world.
This ground-breaking book highlights the gritty, messy, and humorous reality of sports coaching. It deconstructs the activity before showing how it can be done better, providing the first distinct theorisation of coaching and clearing the conceptual fog around the practice.
This book presents multidisciplinary research from Turkey on urban studies, sustainability, environment, and migration. Using specific examples, it offers innovative approaches to current problems, arguing that local policy is key to achieving sustainability on a wider scale.
Advertising, Values and Social Change
Following the 2008 financial crisis, consumer society has changed. This book analyzes how brands and advertising must adapt, identifying new languages for storytelling that reflect a new global sensibility and a demand for more responsible consumption.
Revisiting Centres and Peripheries in Iberian Studies
This volume gathers fresh research from international scholars investigating the multiple tensions between the centre and periphery of the Iberian cultural system. Topics range from the situation in Catalonia to transoceanic postcolonial relations, history, memory, and fiction.
China and the Global Media Landscape
This book explores how Chinese media became a global force, remapping the world’s media landscape. It examines how China’s system is shaped by others, while its own “going out” strategy influences film, broadcasting, the press, and the Internet worldwide.
Traditional Counselling
This book narrows the gaps in the under-researched field of traditional counselling. It articulates a theoretical framework rooted in African sociocultural values and community-based practices, underscoring the relevance of this thought-provoking counselling model.
India is in an era of great upheaval, making a complete break with its past to redefine its role in the world. This collection of essays captures these extraordinary times, chronicling the changes and fault-lines shaping its future and impacting the world around it.
This book is a practical guide to developing a crime-prediction model by gathering and analysing big data. It covers text mining, opinion mining, and machine learning to predict rapidly-changing social phenomena and draw creative conclusions.
Between a Past and Present Consciousness
This book traces how Caymanians overcame fragmented identities of race and class to forge a singular nationality. Now, this cultural solidarity is being tested by astonishing numbers of immigrants keen to become Caymanians themselves. Can this modern identity survive?
Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
Latin American Marxisms in Context
In Latin America, governments and popular mobilizations have challenged neoliberalism, sparking a revival of Marxist perspectives. This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, appealing to all interested in the region’s radicalism.
This volume explores how practitioners respond to current social realities with creative and innovative social work practice. It examines how they can contribute to policy development through their work on dementia, substance use, juvenile reintegration, and more.
Perspectives of Five Kuwaiti Women in Leadership Roles
In intimate conversations, five remarkable Kuwaiti women leaders—including one of the first female MPs, an art advocate, and an oil industry leader—share their thoughts on gender equality, the women’s rights movement, and the role of religion in their country’s future.
A Pessimistic Guide to Anti-aging Research
This book provides an overview of the biology of aging and a critical analysis of past, present, and future anti-aging interventions. It offers a balanced, realistic analysis of the field, discussing the shortcomings and drawbacks of existing strategies.
Processing Your Order
Please wait while we securely process your order.
Do not refresh or leave this page.
You will be redirected shortly to a confirmation page with your order number.