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Paperback. Drawing on ethnographic data from Sweden and on theory from both anthropology and science and technology studies, the author examines how forensic evidence is produced and which social relationships it creates as cases move from crime scene to courtroom. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288393
- ISBN
- 9780520288393
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.50
€ 45.99
€ 32.50
Paperback. Addresses two developments in the conceptualization of citizenship that arise from the 'war on terror', namely the reculturalization of membership in a polity and the re-moralization of access to rights. This book takes an anthropological perspective of the subject. Editor(s): Eckert, Julia M., PhD. Num Pages: 196 pages, col. maps. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 137 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783899429640
- ISBN
- 9783899429640
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.41
€ 37.99
€ 27.41
Hardcover. What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Editor(s): Long, Nicholas J.; Moore, Henrietta. Series: Wyse Series in Social Anthropology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 ills & tables. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782382201
- ISBN
- 9781782382201
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Condition: New
€ 152.26
€ 152.26
Paperback. An undergraduate introduction to both classical and contemporary social theory. Num Pages: 632 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 181 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United States
- Edition
- Third
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781412992787
- ISBN
- 9781412992787
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Condition: New
€ 179.25€ 169.56
€ 179.25
€ 169.56
Paperback. This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice of close reading to show how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas like race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804797023
- ISBN
- 9780804797023
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JWM; TTMW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801833588
- ISBN
- 9780801833588
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Condition: New
€ 33.99
€ 33.99
paperback. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138982215
- ISBN
- 9781138982215
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Condition: New
€ 58.38
€ 58.38
Paperback. The Social Evolution of International Politics critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides interesting solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from realism and neoliberalism, to the English School and constructivism. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198753582
- ISBN
- 9780198753582
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Condition: New
€ 56.23
€ 56.23
Hardback. Some countries, like the UK, give special recognition by the state to one or a few religions; other countries, like France and the US, give recognition to none. This book is about a new approach that gives equal recognition to all religions and non-religious belief systems. Editor(s): Carling, Alan. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSR; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- SKU
- V9781137501943
- ISBN
- 9781137501943
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Condition: New
€ 129.71€ 46.06
€ 129.71
€ 46.06
The Social Engagement of Social Science. A Tavistock Anthology: The So...
. Ed(S): Trist, Eric; Murray, Hugh
Hardback. Vol. 3 edited by Eric Trist, Fred Emery, and Hugh Murray. Editor(s): Trist, Eric; Murray, Hugh. Num Pages: 640 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1118.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812281927
- ISBN
- 9780812281927
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Condition: New
€ 106.86
€ 106.86
Hardback. This text collects together the author's essays on psychoanalytic concepts. Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence, providing arguments about how and why psychoanalytic approaches can deepen the sociological perspective. Num Pages: 283 pages, 1 line drawing and 1 table. BIC Classification: JH; JMAF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214897
- ISBN
- 9780520214897
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Condition: New
€ 62.50€ 48.91
€ 62.50
€ 48.91
Hardback. This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JH; PN; VF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509504312
- ISBN
- 9781509504312
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Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Paperback. This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JH; PN; VF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509504329
- ISBN
- 9781509504329
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.80
€ 24.99
€ 24.80
Paperback. In this book Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control. Series: Ewp Foundations of Sociology. Num Pages: 240 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HDA; JH; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780971242760
- ISBN
- 9780971242760
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Condition: New
€ 56.32
€ 56.32
Paperback. * Contemporary advanced societies. * Informed by extensive fieldwork, including interviews with mayors, judges, police officers, community leaders and grass--roots organizations. Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change. Num Pages: 328 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QFH; JFFA; JFFC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205210
- ISBN
- 9780631205210
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Condition: New
€ 33.53
€ 33.53
Paperback. Looks at the original texts of some of the most infamous, yet widely-taught, texts in modern academia. This series features "The Communist Manifesto", "Das Kapital", "The State and Revolution", "Leviathan" and "The Social Contract". Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781596980822
- ISBN
- 9781596980822
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.67
€ 17.99
€ 17.67
Paperback. In this translated classic, Rousseau argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. He says that we can only be free under the law by voluntarily embracing that law as our own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate all our desires to the collective good, the general will. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853267819
- ISBN
- 9781853267819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.09
€ 7.09
Paperback. Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blue-print for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 11. Weight in Grams: 108. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KKD0006078
- ISBN
- 9780141018881
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, this title argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, it considers issues of liberty and law, as well as freedom and justice. Translator(s): Cranston, Maurice. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD; JPA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442014
- ISBN
- 9780140442014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.36
€ 11.99
€ 11.36
Paperback. A collection of three of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most important political writings - "The Social Contract"; "The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts)"; and "The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)". There are essays by major scholars. Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300091410
- ISBN
- 9780300091410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.95
€ 20.99
€ 16.95