White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense.

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur.

Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle out. This book encourages the development of a reflexive approach to organizational change, providing insights as to why it may be difficult to maintain momentum in change processes.

English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides a unique introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of English. Taking a practical approach, this book teaches the pronunciation of modern standard non-regional British English to intermediate and advanced learners worldwide. Now fully updated and restructured, the more concise new edition:• provides an up-to-date description of the pronunciation of modern British English;• demonstrates the use of English consonants and ...

This international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross-cultural psychology. These dynamic authors bring a diverse set of experiences in writing this text that provides cross-cultural perspectives on a wide range of applied topics.

This textbook introduces readers to the innovative field of human factors psychology, offering real-world examples illustrating how experimental findings are used to improve the design of tools and environments used daily. This edition provides updated text, examples, pedagogical boxes, references, and an expanded instructor’s manual.

Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields.

Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on Criminology and Criminal Justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven discourses that encourage a vision and practice of new world formations.

Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is studied by anthropologists of religion, but how such studies are approached. It addresses questions such as:

How do human agents interact with gods and spirits?

What is the nature of doing religious ethnography?

Can the immaterial be embodied i...