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This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of antiquity but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round.

Disability in Antiquity is the first multidisciplinary volume to...

Provides graduate students in the social sciences with the basic skills they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish basic regression models using contemporary standards.

Key features of the book include:

interweaving the teaching of statistical concepts with examples developed for the course from publicly-available social science data or drawn from the literature.

thorough integration of teaching statistical theory with teaching data processing and analysis.

teaching of Stata and use of chapter exercises in which students practice programming and interpretation on...

Das gedruckte Lebenswerk eines Grundervaters der deutschen Soziologie wird durch eine Gesamtedition fur die internationale Forschung und Lehre erschlossen. Mit Band 14 erscheint der vierte der auf 24 Bande angelegten Tonnies Gesamtausgabe.

In seiner 1922 erschienenen Schrift Kritik der offentlichen Meinung reflektiert Tonnies umfassend uber Grundlagen, Strukturen und Wirkungsmechanismen der offentlichen Meinung. Sie ist eines der bekanntesten Werke Tonnies'.

This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health features theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members and the lives of those who have been diagnosed as having a mental illness

The award-winning Handbook is distinctive in its focus on how the organization and functioning of society influences the occurrence of mental disorder and its consequences. A core issue that runs throughout the text concerns the differential distribution of mental...