Including People with Difficult Behavior in the Community
Offers case studies, research-based strategies, and discussion on behavioral intervention with people who engage in challenging and self-injurious behavior, highlighting the significant role of parent and family support. Topics include naturalistic language intervention; early intervention; school i
Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid
Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already ......
Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons examines the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances.
This text explores how the Electronic Dance Music subculture transitioned from a marginalized deviant subculture to a billion-dollar culture industry, looking at how the culture's success has undermined in-group solidarity and marginalized those who helped pioneer it.
Non-Migration Amidst Zimbabwe's Economic Meltdown addresses the complexities surrounding non-migration in Zimbabwe within the context of protracted political and economic uncertainty. Rose Jaji discusses how individual subjectivities mediate macroeconomic factors and critiques simplistic explanations of non-migration, paying particular attention ......
Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music examines the intersection between popular music from the 1990s-tango, rock chabon, and cumbia villera-historical events, and individual experiences, arguing that these songs depict history, provide a framework to evoke memories, and create "virtual sites of memory" online.
This volume explores how public policy can foster or limit social coordination in the market, civil society, and within various levels of government. Some chapters in this volume are more theoretical, applying public choice and market process theory to public policy issues, while other chapters examine practical, real-world case studies.
This book assembles the fragments of Henri Lefebvre's unrealized sociology of boredom and explores the sociohistorical and spatial conditions and contradictions of boredom and everyday life in the modern world.
