Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals, 4th ed, is the essential introductory text for studying multicultural counseling. Providing a broad survey of counseling concepts and techniques for different marginalized ethnic and cultural groups, it is at once practical and easily understood.

With growing economic inequality and threats to the sustainability of human societies, Koh argues that cooperatives can play an important role in promoting decent work and reducing economic inequality in the 21st century, and thus urges policy makers to reignite policy discussions on cooperatives.

The Social Dynamics of Family Violence explores family violence throughout the life course, from child abuse and neglect to intimate partner violence and elder abuse.

A theoretically informed practical guide to using crisis theory to bring about positive change in empowering ways.

The second edition of Religion Matters focuses on religion’s interplay with broader society, introducing students to the basic questions, ideas, and methods with which sociologists have analyzed the relationship between religion and society.

This concise guide equips readers with the essential skills required to analyze and critically appraise health research evidence, an integral element to evidence-based practice and professional development.

This book aims to help readers understand the status of the division of labour in global value chains, its impact on traditional research topics, and to familiarise readers with the application of input-output methods in GVC research.

This key text offers a coherent conceptual framework for human ecology – a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are part of and for how we frame and understand the problems we face. Essential reading for students and scholars of human ecology, environmental ethics, and sustainability studies.

This new edition links information on COVID-19 into each chapter, providing students with a solid understanding of the social history of medicine; social epidemiology; social stress; health and illness behaviour; the profession of medicine; medical ethnics; and the financing and organization of medical care.

Exploring how and why communication breakdowns occur during pandemics and world disasters, this book offers solutions for improving communication and managing future public health crises.