Prosocial Development: A Multidimensional Approach
Prosocial behavior-broadly defined as voluntary action intended to help or benefit another-has been associated with positive outcomes across the lifespan. Children with a more prosocial … Read more
Sociology
Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and … Read more
Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, … Read more
Remarks on the Relation between Education and Crime in a Letter to the Right Rev. William White
None This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. … Read more
Under New Public Management : Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public … Read more
Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences
This new, annotated translation of Hesiod’s “Works and Days” is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic … Read more
Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been … Read more
The politics of textiles: the Indian cotton-mill industry and the legacy of swadeshi, 1900-1985
None Textile manufacture, India’s oldest industry, has involved the rise and fall of some of the most powerful and rich businessmen in India, the pioneers … Read more
The Transatlantic Republican: Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions
Vincent (American history and civilization, U. of Orleans and U. of Venice) collects and slightly revises 11 articles originally published between 1986 and 1999 on … Read more
The world of Muslim women in colonial Bengal, 1876-1939
None This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its frames of reference … Read more
The Business of Talk: Organizations in Action
This book is a bold and innovative analysis of the role of talk in business firms and organizations in general. Like all other organizations, business … Read more