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Emotional Labour in Health Care

The Unmanaged Heart of Nursing

By Catherine Theodosius

Do nurses still care? In today’s inflexible, fast-paced and more accountable workplace where biomedical and clinical models dominate health care practice, is there room for...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40954-4 (Routledge)

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Education and the Family

Passing Success Across the Generations

By Leon Feinstein, Kathryn Duckworth, Ricardo Sabates

Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play?

The educational achievement of parents is often...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39637-0 (Routledge)

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Emigrant Players

Sport and the Irish Diaspora

Edited by Paul Darby, David HassanJ. A. ManganBoria MajumdarMark Dyerson

Ireland and its inhabitants have often been described as being ‘sports mad’. As a relatively small geographical entity, Ireland, north and south, has produced a...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46491-8 (Routledge)

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Families in a Global Context

Edited by Charles B. Hennon, Stephan M. Wilson

Learn what trends and factors are influencing families globally

How are families the same or different around the world? Families in a Global Context puts...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-7890-2708-5 (Routledge)

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Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

By Miriam Smith

Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98871-1 (Routledge)

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Freedom of Expression

A critical and comparative analysis

By Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the issues surrounding freedom of expression, looking at the current legal position in a number of European countries...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46670-7 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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Cosmopolitan Spaces

Europe, Globalization, Theory

By Chris Rumford

Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory endeavors a highly innovative reading of both globalization theory and contemporary European transformations. Interpreting cosmopolitanism as a politics of space, Rumford positions...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39067-5 (Routledge)

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Criminology: The Key Concepts

By Martin O'Brien, Majid Yar

Criminology: the Key Concepts is an authoritative and comprehensive study guide and reference resource that will take you through all the concepts, approaches, issues and...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42794-4 (Routledge)

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Social Identity

By Richard Jenkins

This third edition builds on the international success of previous editions, offering an easy access critical introduction to social science theories of identity, for advanced...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44849-9 (Routledge)

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Social Movements

A Reader

Edited by VINCENZO RUGGIERO, Nicola Montagna

This timely Reader plays an important role in the field of social movements. It fills a significant gap by covering a number of connected areas...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44582-5 (Routledge)

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