Browsing School of Humanities by Title
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Fraud and Corruption
(Springer, 2018)The concepts fraud and corruption can be defined in several ways, depending on the contexts in which the terms are being applied. One needs only to look at the history of civilizations, both those in the past and the ... -
Handbook of Disaster Research
(Springer, 2007)Disasters create difficulties, even for those who study disasters. Much of that difficulty stems from the necessity to deal with concepts, which have popular meanings, and some of those meanings evoke moral and emotional ... -
Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology
(Springer, 2019)Evolutionary archaeology has developed from a marginal discussion to a mainstream focus in modern archaeology. Archaeologists have become widely aware that the rigorous procedures developed in the guise of evolutionary ... -
Handbook of LGBT Elders
(Springer, 2016)As editors of this text, Pamela and I have over 40 years of combined experience in service delivery; education; and research in aging, human rights, disability, and social services. Beginning in 2013, we collaborated ... -
Handbook of Marriage and the Family
(Springer, 2013)Before describing the history, purpose, and structure of this book, it seems appropriate to identify an unintentional and latent theme in this Handbook of Marriage and the Family, 3rd Edition . As we edited these ... -
Handbook of Quantitative Criminology
(Springer, 2010)Quantitative criminology has certainly come a long way since I was first introduced to a largely qualitative criminology some 40 years ago, when I was recruited to lead a task force on science and technology for the President’s ... -
Handbook of Sociological Theory
(Springer, 2001)One of the most obvious trends in sociology over the last 30 years is differentiation of substantive specialties. What is true in the discipline as a whole is particularly evident in sociological theory. Where once there ... -
Handbook of the Life Course
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)The development of the life course as a field of study parallels in some respects another prominent subfield of sociology, social psychology. In his now-classic assessment, House (1977) observed that social psychology’s ... -
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
(Springer, 2006)During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiquity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, ... -
International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
(Springer, 2009)‘‘Historical archaeology’’ is one of the most fast-changing and dynamic fields of study in the archaeological discipline.This collection of essays by researchers and practitioners from around the world charts the field’s ... -
International Humanitarian Action
(Springer, 2018)NOHA (The Network on Humanitarian Action) is an international association of 12 European universities and five global partner universities. The aim of NOHA is to enhance professionalism in the humanitarian sector through ... -
Introduction to Formal Philosophy
(Springer, 2018)In 1974, a wonderful little book came out entitled Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague, edited by Richmond H. Thomason. The book was a beautiful testimony to the fact that formal methods may indeed ... -
Introduction to Law
(Springer, 2017)The Introduction to Law that you are now holding in your hands is special in the sense that it introduces students to law in general and not to the law of one specific jurisdiction. It has been written with two goals in ... -
An Introduction to Zooarchaeology
(Springer, 2018)In 1950, there were few, if any, zooarchaeologists. Today the number of zooarchaeologists in North America is growing toward equal proportions with those specializing in the more traditional fields of lithic and ceramic ... -
Introductory Computer Forensics
(Springer, 2018)Internet technology is advancing at a speed beyond comprehension. With everadvancing Internet technology, we truly are living in a digital age. It will certainly improve our quality of life, as it can offer the speed, ... -
LATEX in 24 Hours
(Springer, 2017)The necessity for writing this book was felt long back, during my Ph.D. work, when I saw students and researchers struggling with LATEX for preparing their articles and theses. A very limited number of books on LATEX are ... -
Legal Dynamics of EU External Relations
(Springer, 2017)Harold Wilson famously remarked that a week is a long time in politics. Law would seem to be different, in that developments dating back several years can still be easily tagged as ‘recent’ by la doctrine. Nevertheless, ... -
LGBT-Parent Families
(Springer, 2013)In 2003, I began teaching an undergraduate course titled “Sexual Diversity in Society” in what proved to be a turning point year for North American struggles for LGBT family rights. Gay rights plaintiffs in the USA and ... -
Life Cycle Assessment
(Springer, 2018)It is an old observation that ‘What gets measured gets managed’, and that what is not measured or measurable runs the risk of being neglected. It is therefore important that we have tools for assessing the sustainability ... -
MATLAB for Psychologists
(Springer, 2012)Psychological researchers should possess several skills, and one of them is surely creativity. Creativity is needed at several key points of the research process, such as in creating experimental stimuli and planning and ...
