Category: Textbooks

Hegemonic Transformation (PDF) contends that the Chinese economic reform initiated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the part of the Chinese state has been changing from directing the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony. It

In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new Sport, Theory and Social Problems, 2nd edition, (PDF) authors Adam White and Eric Anderson examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes injury, inequality, and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play in Anglo-American countries. By introducing college students

The Supreme Court and the Development of Law (PDF) illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of numerous prisoners’ rights cases. In 1964, the Supreme Court rejected to hear prisoners’ rights about religious freedom. In 2014, the Supreme Court heard a case that headed to

Psycho-Politics between the World Wars, (PDF) is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth-century Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. In the middle of the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists tried to use their clinical insights to understand, identify, and treat society at large. The

Essentials of Clinical Radiation Oncology (PDF) is a comprehensive, user-friendly clinical review that summarizes up-to-date cancer care in an easy-to-read format. Each chapter is structured for straightforward navigability and information retention beginning with a “quick-hit” summary that contains an overview of each disease, its natural history, and general treatment options.