Category: Textbooks

Philosophers, criminologists, legal scholars, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked vital questions about punishment: What is its reason? What theories help us better comprehend its nature? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? Is punishment just? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the

The Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing 2nd edition (PDF), uses a conversational style to teach statistics or nursing students how to use statistical methods and procedures to analyze research findings. Nursing students are guided through the complete analysis process from performing a statistical analysis to the rationale behind doing so.

The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. S. Olcott, H. P. Blavatsky,  and others) is increasingly becoming known for its influential role in moulding the alternative new cultural and religious landscape of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century, particularly as an early promoter of interest in

The Intersections of Whiteness, (PDF) brings together scholars from different disciplines to shed light on these manifestations in the United Kingdom, the US, Germany and South Africa. Relating methodology stemming from critical race theory’s investment in intersectionality, the contributions of this edited collection emphasise on specific intersections of whiteness with

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (PDF) is a broad survey of linguistic anthropology, including contributions from renowned scholars in the field. Every chapter presents a short historical summary of research in the field and discusses issues and topics of current concern to people doing research in linguistic anthropology. The ebook