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Paperback. Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings - a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. This title combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Revised, Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120485
- ISBN
- 9780691120485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.56
€ 54.99
€ 39.56
Paperback. A cruise along the streets of Chennai - or Silicon Valley - filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In this book, the authors examine one particularly striking group who have taken part in this development. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226152745
- ISBN
- 9780226152745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.64
€ 34.99
€ 27.64
Hardcover. A cruise along the streets of Chennai - or Silicon Valley - filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In this book, the author examine one particularly striking group who have taken part in this development. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226152608
- ISBN
- 9780226152608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.34€ 79.04
€ 94.34
€ 79.04
Paperback. Shows that traditionalism and modernity reinforce each other among the priests at the Minakshi Temple. This book also shows that the priests have become more 'professional' and modern-minded while also insisting on the legitimacy of tradition. It concludes by critiquing the analysis of modernity and tradition in social science. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; HRLP1; HRLP7; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116587
- ISBN
- 9780691116587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.59
€ 46.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, this title sheds light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. It offers an approach that analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JFSK2; JNKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Second Edition, With a New Preface
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271487
- ISBN
- 9780520271487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.03
€ 34.03
Paperback. Goodwin presents psychologists with an innovative new book that offers a set of important readings along with a running annotation that addresses the meaning of the reading s content. This includes a look at how the content relates to the contemporary historical context and the significance of the material for psychology s history. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470228111
- ISBN
- 9780470228111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 290.45
€ 290.45
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442272927
- ISBN
- 9781442272927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.69
€ 71.69
Hardback. This text presents research on Darwinism, race, cladistics, phylogeny, Neanderthals, dentition, craniometry, fossil evidence and cultural ecology that raise questions for the entire discipline of evolutionary anthropology. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742502628
- ISBN
- 9780742502628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.17
€ 152.17
Paperback. This text presents research on Darwinism, race, cladistics, phylogeny, Neanderthals, dentition, craniometry, fossil evidence and cultural ecology that raise questions for the entire discipline of evolutionary anthropology. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742502635
- ISBN
- 9780742502635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.79
€ 70.79
Paperback. This text is designed to be used as a supplementary text for any course in which the instructor wants to explore the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and how "race" grew to become accepted as something that virtually everyone regards as self-evident. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 maps, numerous halftones and line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195173512
- ISBN
- 9780195173512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 136.99
€ 136.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Lucas, C. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CF; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781563681080
- ISBN
- 9781563681080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.97
€ 52.99
€ 40.97
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 pp. b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300181913
- ISBN
- 9780300181913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.33
€ 43.99
€ 31.33
Hardback. Analyses the work of recent American church coalitions that support and campaign for low wage workers. Series: Religion and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 217 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCX6; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814741122
- ISBN
- 9780814741122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.76
€ 59.76
Paperback. * The only comprehensive guide of crash sites throughout the UK * Features details of a host of major aircraft wrecks, the sites of which can all be visited with the aid of this guide. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBW; JWMV3; WSZC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781594735
- ISBN
- 9781781594735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.57
€ 23.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. This volume brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life. Covering a wide range of topics from film to food, the authors describe ways in which sensory memories have preserved cultures otherwise threatened by urbanism and modernity. Num Pages: 158 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Univ of Chicago PR ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748771
- ISBN
- 9780226748771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.41
€ 40.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFJZ; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press Chicago
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748764
- ISBN
- 9780226748764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.28
€ 48.99
€ 38.28
Hardcover. Nielsen offers a dialogue with Foucault, Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon and the Augustinian-Franciscan tradition, investigating the relation between social construction and freedom and proposing an historically friendly, ethically sensitive, and religico-philosophical model for human being and existence in a shared pluralistic world. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAM1; HRLB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034106
- ISBN
- 9781137034106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.33€ 59.86
€ 94.33
€ 59.86
Hardback. Ten years ago, Otto Scharmer invited us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover a revolutionary approach to leadership. Now Scharmer has revised, updated, streamlined, and enhanced his seminal text. Scharmer shows that what we pay attention to and how we pay attention are key to what we create. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHL; KJMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 179 x 39. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626567986
- ISBN
- 9781626567986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.07€ 38.05
€ 53.07
€ 38.05
Paperback. Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades. Series: Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, diagrams, figures. BIC Classification: JMRM; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405122887
- ISBN
- 9781405122887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.20
€ 56.20
Hardcover. Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades. Series: Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMRM; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405122870
- ISBN
- 9781405122870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.62
€ 123.62