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  • Community Sport Coaching

    Policies and Practice

    Edited by Ben Ives, Paul Potrac, Laura Gale, Lee Nelson ...
    In many Western nations, community sport coaches occupy a central role in supporting the physical health, mental wellbeing, and wider social development of individuals and communities. However, there is no existing academic textbook that examines the policy contexts in which their work is located or, indeed, the challenges and opportunities that are an inherent feature of their everyday practice ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Applied Jewish Values in Social Sciences and Psychology

    Edited by Michael Ben-Avie, Yossi Ives, Kate Loewenthal ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume interweaves concepts and methods from psychology and other social sciences with Jewish ideas and practices in order to address contemporary social issues. This volume brings together pioneering research from scholars in such fields as psychology, education, and religious studies. The authors integrate insights from Jewish texts and practices with the methods and concepts of the social ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The God Delusion

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this seminal text on atheism and the contentious debate over science and religion, renowned scientist Richard Dawkins examines the irrationality of believing in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society.From the sex-obsessed tyrant in the Old Testament to the more benign Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Living the Secular Life

    New Answers to Old Questions

    by Phil Zuckerman ...
    “A humane and sensible guide to and for the many kinds of Americans leading secular lives in what remains one of the most religious nations in the developed world.” —The New York Times Book ReviewOver the last twenty-five years, “no religion” has become the fastest-growing religious preference in the United States. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people have turned away from the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Nonreligious

    Understanding Secular People and Societies

    by Phil Zuckerman, Luke W. Galen, Frank L. Pasquale ...
    The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Places of Faith

    A Road Trip across America's Religious Landscape

    by Christopher P. Scheitle, Roger Finke ...
    Lavishly illustrated with over 100 color photographs, Places of Faith takes readers on a fascinating religious road trip. Christopher Scheitle and Roger Finke have crisscrossed America, visiting churches in small towns and rural areas, as well as the mega-churches, storefronts, synagogues, Islamic centers, Eastern temples, and other places of faith in major cities. Each stop on their tour provides ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust

    The Jimmy Savile Scandal

    by F. Furedi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion

    by Symon Hill ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    Religion is a term that is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is a loaded word that has a different meaning for every person; religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue and narrow-mindedness.Symon Hill’s No-Nonsense Guide to Religion tries to explain what ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Making Sense of Moral Panics

    A Framework for Research

    by Sarah Wright Monod ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive framework for the study of moral panics. It provides an up-to-date overview of the history and development of the concept of panic, and discusses the key criticisms and debates that have stemmed from its use over the last four decades. While investigating the critical connections between crime reporting and panic development, Wright Monod also highlights the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts

    But How Does it Work?

    Edited by Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Nicola Mann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The book reveals how the ‘social value of art’ may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist – and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and interpretation. As a trajectory in art history, socially engaged art has a long and established history. However, in recent years—or ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Iran

    From Theocracy to the Green Movement

    Edited by N. Nabavi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Religion, Media, and Social Change

    Edited by Kennet Granholm, Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture
    In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities, life, and practice. Religion, Media, and Social Change explores the correlation ... Read more

    $72.99 USD