Society & social sciences
Results 9101 - 9120 of 72428
Society & social sciences
Hardback. Exposes the constitutional origins of our political and economic problems and furnishes a California fix: innovative solutions that allow Californians to debate their choices, settle on the best ones, hold elected officials accountable for results, and choose anew if something doesn't work. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268524
- ISBN
- 9780520268524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.34€ 71.86
€ 94.34
€ 71.86
Paperback. Examines the charismatic Christian reformation underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic faith healers. This book focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic faith-healing church in Botswana's capital. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 268 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMB; HRCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Pap/DVD
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268548
- ISBN
- 9780520268548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Exposes the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists in the United States. This title weaves together a wealth of voices - from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from counselors, law enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268661
- ISBN
- 9780520268661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. Includes stories about food and eating under extreme conditions. This title features the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world. Editor(s): McAllester, Matt. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; JFCV; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1 edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268678
- ISBN
- 9780520268678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
€ 27.52
Paperback. Explores the emergence of rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBT; JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268739
- ISBN
- 9780520268739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.94
€ 40.99
€ 28.94
Paperback. Over the years, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This title explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the US. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269590
- ISBN
- 9780520269590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. This book argues that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems. Series: Wildavsky Forum Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 31 line illustrations, 27 maps, 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JPQB; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269675
- ISBN
- 9780520269675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Taking us on a journey into the nation's school kitchens, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. It explores the politics of food provision from multiple perspectives - history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269880
- ISBN
- 9780520269880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. Focuses on Starbucks, the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; KNSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412. Learning About America from Starbucks. 320 pages. Focuses on Starbucks, the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; KNSH. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269927
- ISBN
- 9780520269927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Explores the relationship between globalization and South Asia through food, covering the cuisine of the colonial period to the contemporary era, investigating its material and symbolic meanings. Editor(s): Ray, Krishnendu; Srinivas, Tulasi. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270121
- ISBN
- 9780520270121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Traces the relation between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu. This book explores two seemingly distinct formations of voice that have emerged in the midst of the country's recent political and economic upheavals. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270701
- ISBN
- 9780520270701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.91
€ 40.99
€ 28.91
Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270909
- ISBN
- 9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.73€ 64.09
€ 83.73
€ 64.09
Paperback. What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota - to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Editor(s): Waters, Mary C.; Carr, Patrick J.; Kefalas, Maria; Holdaway, Jennifer. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 line illustrations, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFSP3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270930
- ISBN
- 9780520270930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. This title provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 line illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270961
- ISBN
- 9780520270961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. Mixed feelings about motherhood - uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children - are not just hard to discuss, they are a social taboo. This title uncovers the roots of ambivalence, and tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271203
- ISBN
- 9780520271203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a 'humane' method of execution. This title takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFMC; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271210
- ISBN
- 9780520271210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Paperback. When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. This title weaves together multiple sources of evidence to re-create the tapestry of Chumash society. Num Pages: 376 pages, 24 b/w photographs, 30 line illustrations, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271241
- ISBN
- 9780520271241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Told through a range of characters and events, this title illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women, extraordinary achievements in the business world, the cultural creativity of the second generation, the bitter debate about the proper response to the Holocaust and Zionism, and more. Num Pages: 464 pages, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271302
- ISBN
- 9780520271302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. Explores the experiences of young Mexican Americans, African Americans, and ethnic Euro-Americans in California correctional facilities including Whittier State School for Boys and the Preston School of Industry. This title shows how these boys and girls, and their families, resisted increasingly harsh treatment and various kinds of abuse. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 314 pages, 12 b/w photographs, 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271722
- ISBN
- 9780520271722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. Explains our understanding of human origins, tells how climate determined our spread, and describes the barriers that delayed and directed migrating people. The author explores the rich and complex ways in which our anatomy, physiology, cultural diversity, and population density vary from region to region in the areas we inhabit. Num Pages: 328 pages, 56 line illustrations, 3 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JHMP; RGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272118
- ISBN
- 9780520272118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.73€ 64.45
€ 83.73
€ 64.45