The Emerald Guide to Ann Oakley offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Oakley's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of her life and her ground-breaking research into domestic and gender sociology.Ann Oakley delved into researching gender disparities, challenging prevailing ideas by distinguishing between sex and gender. Influenced by personal experiences, she questioned societal norms around marriage, motherhood, and gender...

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What are Community Studies?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series.In the age of globalization and the changing welfare state, community relations are now more important than ever. This book gives an overview of the community studies field, with particular focus on the research methods used, and how they have evolved in recent years. Defining the ke...

First published in 1994. The sociology of community is currently undergoing something of a revival, and this book has been written with the aim of contributing to this process in a number of ways. First of all, it draws attention to the burgeoning literature on sociological aspects of community life. Secondly, its bring together the various studies considered here into a more coherent whole than they possess as simply a collection of separate pieces of research.

Revised, restructured and updated to reflect the latest data and debates, this new edition of the widely used, classic textbook offers students an accessible account of the major social divisions that structure social life. Written by internationally known sociologists and experts, the book:• addresses a wide range of social divisions and inequalities in novel ways, with added chapters on education and age;• provides a framework for understanding contemporary social inequal...

A haunting murder and kidnapping on the outskirts of Salem, Massachusetts, sends two people with unique talents hunting for answers from both the past and present in internationally bestselling author Heather Graham’s electrifying new Krewe of Hunters spin off for fans of Stephen King, Jayne Ann Krentz, Riley Sager, and Simone St. James.Skye McMahon sees things. Good and bad, the past unreels in her mind’s eye like a movie. Such is Skye’s uncanny life. That’s why s...

The X-Files meets Dan Brown in this suspenseful tale of dark magic, ancient curses, and modern murder, as two agents with unusual talents investigate a series of sensational crimes in the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida.The case is sensational. Whistle-blower investigative journalist George Maynard has been killed in his St. Augustine home, his body so badly burned the morgue is needed to verify hi...

Sherlock Holmes has become legend, but his sister was lost to history.In one hellish night, Morrigan Holmes ruined everything: her home, her family, her confidence, and her name. Fleeing scandal, loss, and grief, her only choice is to run, but London's gaslit streets are not kind to young women alone.Within hours, she discovers the horrors of homelessness and the terrible invisibility of the marginalised poor. A child is kidnapped before her eyes, and she ba...

After growing up in a pet store surrounded by dogs, cats, and other animals, Danny has lost his ability to quack and goes on a journey to regain his ability. Along the way, he meets an owl, mole, and spider, but he ends up clucking like a hen, mewing like a cat, barking like a dog, oinking like a pig, squeaking like a mouse, and cooing like a quail.Finally, he goes to see Freddy the Frog, who lives near a lake where he has seen other ducks. Can Freddy help him regain his true voice...

THE LORD OF THE CROWS tells the story of Sasha, a boy growing up on a poor farm with his parents, brothers, and sisters. Then, the Lord of the Crows comes to seek tribute of one son or their oxen. After two boys get lost in the forest going to the palace, Sasha goes and gains the help of a crow who needs a ride on his back and gives him a warning, which enables Sasha to obtain a special coffee grinder which his able to give him and his family whatever they want, and after that the Lord of ...

When Anna Novakova's lover gets trapped in a malicious game, she has a choice - walk away and die, or play and risk the most important person in her life.Anna's in trouble. She's alone, playing a game that's as nasty as it is unpredictable. There are rules but she doesn't know them. She doesn't even know who, or what, she's playing. But if she walks away, she loses, and that means one thing - someone dies. Anna makes her choice. And as the night fills with wannabe ...

After growing up in a pet store surrounded by dogs, cats, and other animals, Danny has lost his ability to quack. After being bought by a little girl and dropped off in the woods by her father, Danny goes on a journey to regain his ability to quack. Along the way, he meets an owl, mole, and spider, but he ends up clucking like a hen, mewing like a cat, barking like a dog, oinking like a pig, squeaking like a mouse, and cooing like a quail.Finally, he goes to see Freddy the Frog, wh...

Scientist, resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi was one of Italy's greatest writers and an internationally renowned chronicler of human nature. In his masterpiece The Periodic Table, he charts his incredible life story through the medium of chemistry, using the titular list of elements - the building blocks of everything - as a prism to explore his experiences and search his soul.In this superlative BBC adaptation, all 21 of the peerless stories in Levi's ...