Social Work and Reproductive Justice

E. Goldblatt Hyatt

Reproductive justice (RJ) is a social justice orientation undergirded by the right to sexual, gender, and bodily autonomy. It consists of three core tenets: 1) the right to have a child, 2) the right to not have a child, and 3) the right to raise a child in safe and...

The Art of Flourishing

Liz Bowen , Rosemarie Garland-Thomson , Erik Parens , Joel Michael Reynolds

Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental...

The Game

Hannah Pool

To seek asylum, people often have to cross borders undocumented, embarking on perilous trajectories. Due to the war in Afghanistan, the rule of the Taliban, and severe human rights violations, over the past decades thousands of people have risked their lives to seek...

The Buried City

Jamie Bulloch , Gabriel Zuchtriegel

Beyond Dispute

Daniel Taub

Evidence-Based Policy Analysis

Chong-Bum An An

Evidence-Based Policy Analysis investigates the insights learned from case studies of evidence-based policy evaluation and the policymaking process across the five distinct policy domains, representing a pioneering effort within this sphere of research. Several chapters...

Travels in Time

Astrid Erll

Human beings are time travelers. Incessantly, we traverse past, present, and future through a process called collective memory. In Travels in Time, Astrid Erll addresses the question of how collective memory emerges through motion--the movements of people, media, forms,...

Single Black Mother

Anika Maaza Simpson

Unmarried Black mothers in the United States face a precarious existence. Their precarity reflects the deep-seated ills of anti-Black racism, systemic poverty, disenfranchisement, and state violence that adversely impact the daily lives of most Black Americans....

Between Medicine and Criminology

Scott H. Podolsky , Brandon C. Welsh , Steven N. Zane

In 1935, Richard Cabot (1868-1939), a renowned physician and professor of clinical medicine and social ethics at Harvard University, founded the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Appalled by high recidivism rates of reformatories of the day, Cabot wanted to do something...

The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

Sora Kim , Andreas Schwarz , Matthew W. Seeger

Global Insights on Navigating Today’s Complex Crises Now in its second edition, The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research offers a timely and comprehensive exploration of the methods, challenges, and innovations in managing present-day global...

The Handbook of Digital Labor

Richard Maxwell , Jack Linchuan Qiu , Shinjoung Yeo

Provides a global perspective on labor and technology, exploring resistance, solidarity, and alternatives in digital capitalism The Handbook of Digital Labor critically examines how digital technologies are reshaping work and employment around the globe. Bridging...

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Machine learning, renowned for its ability to detect patterns in large datasets, has seen a significant increase in applications and complexity since the early 2000s. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology ofMachine Learning offers a state-of-the-art and forward-looking...

The Great Return

Jamie Franklin

The decline in Secular Western morality can only be halted and reversed by a full return to Christianity.Many people have a sense that the Western World is in decline and that our society is fragmenting around us. Many people have an ominous sense that we are living at...

Back from the Brink

Peter Moskos

With crime of heightened concern in the country's largest cities, Peter Moskos brings readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into policing solutions directly from the law enforcement officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s,...

Funny Moves

Marta E. Savigliano , Hannah Schwadron

Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a...

Intersectional Listening

Allie Martin

Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are observed. But what does gentrification sound like? In Intersectional Listening, author Allie Martin engages this question in Washington, DC, asking how...

Woman's Hour

Una Mccormack

For 75 years, Woman’s Hour has brought us the most iconic and inspirational women from all over the world, delving into their lives and opinions, desires and lessons to others. Now, their wise words are brought to you each day in this daily guide.Woman’s Hour: Daily...

Between Two Rivers

Moudhy Al-Rashid

Greek Mythology

Carolina López-Ruiz

This volume provides an introduction to ancient Greek mythology through the theme of cosmogonies and theogonies —myths of origins that told the creation of the world and the birth and succession of the gods. Greek Mythology additionally features important...

Fetal Positions

Amy Adamczyk

In many countries, abortion is a contentious public opinion issue.In nations like the United States, advocates on both sides of the debate have actively worked to amplify their voices and change legislation.In other parts of the world, such as China, abortion is not a...