Jacobsen: 323 books
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, criminologists and psychologists all...
The Transformation of Modernity
Aspects of the Past, Present and Future of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offered by philosophers and social scientists from Hobbes to Parsons is no longer understood as a description...
The Poetics of Crime
Understanding and Researching Crime and Deviance Through Creative Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses,...
Ein Sommer im Rosenhaus
Roman
Language: German
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Wo liegt das Glück, wenn nicht in einem Rosengarten? Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes und dem Auszug der Kinder sucht die Botanikerin Sandra einen Neuanfang für sich. Sie kauft ein altes Gärtnerhaus auf Usedom an der Ostsee, zu dem ein verwilderter, aber einmalig schöner Rosengarten gehört. Doch die...
Hadrami Arabs in Present-day Indonesia
An Indonesia-oriented group with an Arab signature
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
This book focuses on social and cultural trends in present-day Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. For centuries migration has played a vital part in Hadrami adaptation. External forces,...
The World's Christians
Who they are, Where they are, and How they got there
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Written by an award-winning author, this well-organized and comprehensive introduction to global Christianity illuminates the many ways the world's Christians live their faith today.
Covers the entire globe: Africa, Asia, and Latin America as well as Europe, North America, and the Pacific
Provides...
Young Sikhs in a Global World
Negotiating Traditions, Identities and Authorities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current...
Unser Haus am Meer
Roman
Language: German
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Wo liegt das Glück, wenn nicht am Meer? Statt politische Skandale zu recherchieren, wird die Reporterin Josefine von ihrem Chef nach Usedom verbannt. Sie soll einen Kapitän interviewen – den Autor eines Glücksratgebers. Der erweist sich als überraschend attraktiv, allein sein Bruder raubt Josefine...
Inclusion, Play and Empathy
Neuroaffective Development in Children's Groups
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and interactions in group settings play in the development of children's personal, emotional and social skills.
The...
by heidi jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Four talented musicians pay their last tribute to Phil, a songwriter who is diagnosed with cancer in a heartwarming story about friendship and loss.
The Truest Thing about You
Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
There are many true things about you—true things you use to build an identity. Parent. Introvert. Victim. Student. Extrovert. Entrepreneur. Single.
These truths can identify you, your successes and failures, your expectations and disappointments, your secret dreams and hidden shames. But...
The Politics of Humanitarian Technology
Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences and Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book offers a detailed exploration of three examples of humanitarian uses of new technology, employing key theoretical insights from Foucault.
We are currently seeing a humanitarian turn to new digital technologies, such as biometrics, remote sensing, and surveillance drones. However,...
Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia
A History of Desire, Duty, and Debt
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book brings an important new perspective to the study of sex trafficking by considering the different types of social contracts which existed in the past that had sexual labour or activity as an inherent component. It outlines the nature of these social institutions – marriage, temporary marriage,...
Death at Dawn
Captain Warburton-Lee VC and the Battle of Narvik, April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Hitler's desperate need for iron ore was the main reason for his attack on Norway in April 1940. The battle for Narvik's ice-free harbor soon became a crucial objective for both Allied and Axis forces. Attack at Dawn covers the two key battles that fought on 10th and 13th of April. The first battle...