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The impetus behind this Special Issue emerged from a quest to move beyondbinary thinking in the contemporary period about people who sell sexual services,including recent disputes about “sex trafficking vs. prostitution” and“criminalization vs.…

In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social…

This open access textbook provides the background needed to correctly use, interpret and understand statistics and statistical data in diverse settings. Part I makes key concepts in statistics readily clear. Parts I and II give an overview of the…

Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone want…

network trust, trust, second-hand trust, prototrust, relational trust, network theory, mechanism, indicators, contingencies, tie strength, social distance, network closure, vertical network differentiation, governance veracity, identity authenticity,…

"What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs?…

Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women’s words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices, it focuses on women’s practices of resistance and…

This book explains and explores how collaborations can be built and strengthened between African universities and farming communities to address real-world contemporary challenges.

The book focuses on Community Action Research Platforms, an…

This is a “minimalist” textbook for a first semester of university, calculus-based physics, covering classical mechanics (including one chapter on mechanical waves, but excluding fluids), plus a brief introduction to thermodynamics. The presentation…

This textbook is primarily intended for students of dental medicine, it can also be useful for the students of general medicine whom it can help in clinical and field practice. The term “diseases of the oral mucosa” describes a diverse group of…