De stad is in verwarring en zoekt naar orde. Burgemeesters en wethouders worden bedreigd. Het aantal verwarde personen op straat neemt toe. Gemeenten weten niet wat ze aan moeten met de prostitutie: verbieden, reguleren of verplaatsen? Het leven in de stad leidt soms tot stress. Meer groen kan helpen om die te bestrijden, maar de stad moet óók zorgen voor genoeg woningen.

Deze bundel geeft een overzicht van de problemen en uitdagingen waarmee de stad van de eenentwintigste eeuw wordt geconf...

This book addresses the relationship between restorative justice and children’s rights, an issue of increasing relevance to restorative justice theory and practice that has thus far received relatively little attention. Readers will find useful reviews of international human rights documents and of legislation, policy and practices in countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, North America, and Oceania. Each of the chapters demonstrates the compatibility between children’s rights ...

Dit onderzoek richt zich op de invloed die patronen, regels, gebruiken en structuren van de gemeenschap van de Jehova’s getuigen in Nederland hebben op de omgang met en de aangiftebereidheid van (vermeend) seksueel misbruik. Een belangrijke conclusie van het onderzoek is dat de omgang met het misbruik maakt dat slachtoffers of vermeende slachtoffers in de gemeenschap van Jehova’s getuigen zich onvoldoende erkend en ondersteund voelen.

Voor het onderzoek zijn ervaringen van Jehova’s getu...

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.

'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world' Hannah Dawson

We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.

Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you.

The term killjoy has bee...

‘There is no author whose books I look forward to more’ BILL GATES

In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today:

Why are some of the world’s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations?

Why is food waste a colossal 1,000kcal per person daily, and how can we solve that?

Could we all go vegan and be healthy? Should we?

How w...

Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both a historical and contemporary lens to explore the influence of religion.

The eighth edition of The Dynamics of Persuasion again guides readers in understanding the power and limits of persuasion in contemporary society. This edition continues its accessible and detailed illustration of the theoretical underpinnings of persuasive communication through contemporary and relevant examples of persuasion in action. It features coverage of new scholarship on misinformation, health communication, and persuasion effects, including careful attention to persuasion’s r...