Dienke Hondius identifies ideas and attitudes toward "blackness," the concept of race as visible difference, developed in western Europe.

In Why We Worry, Roland Paulsen paints a broad picture of the cultural variations and historical evolution of anxiety. Through this lens, he invites readers to explore the paradox of how material wealth has enriched our lives in every aspect except one: our mental well-being.

Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era.

Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind them. This updated edition includes a new pre...

Counselling skills are core to the social work undergraduate curriculum. This book takes readers through the theoretical models that they need to learn about for their course, and provides direct examples of how to use these in practice.

Qualitative Research Writing: Credible and Trustworthy Writing from Beginning to End takes you through the writing process step by step, starting with how you think about your research, before you even consider writing. The authors offer practical guidance based on two decades working with faculty and doctoral students.

Generalist Social Work Practice provides students with the foundational skills and knowledge needed to serve clients across micro, mezzo and macro areas of practice.

`The publication of this second edition of Culture's Consequences marks an important moment in the field of cross-cultural studies.... Hofstede's framework for understanding national differences has been one of the most influential and widely used frameworks in cross-cultural business studies, in the past ten years' - Australian Journal of Management

Appropriate for beginners and established researchers the book represents SNA in its entirety; as theory as well as method - and is carefully supported by up-to-date statistical models.

A popular text/reader hybrid, combining the major writings of sociology's core contemporary theorists with a historical and theoretical framework.

A critical exploration of the constructions of childhood across the social sciences. It questions common global Northern conceptions of childhood and children by providing a wider lens through which to challenge inherent Eurocentrism.