Category: Textbooks

This ebook, Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature (PDF) brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The ebook explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of

What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation (PDF) brings together and evaluates all major systematic reviews of the effectiveness of criminological interventions, to draw comprehensive conclusions about what works in policing, improvements, developmental prevention, drug abuse treatments, situational prevention, sentencing and deterrence, and communities. Systematic reviews aim to minimalize any possible

Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature (PDF) explores the work of Robert Browning, John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Walter Pater, treating in precise the ways in which they engaged with the Christian content of their subject, and, in Pater’s case, how the art of Christianity was compared

Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman’s Understanding Human Behavior And The Social Environment 10th Edition (PDF) looks at the lifespan through the lens of social work practice and theory, covering human development and behavior theories within the context of organizational, family, and community systems. Using a chronological lifespan approach, the ebook presents separate

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