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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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.64

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.99

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.98

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Hardcover. The dominant view of resilience is as something individuals possess rather than as a process that can be facilitated. This book provides evidence for the ecological understanding of resilience in ways that help resolve both definition and measurement problems. Editor(s): Ungar, Michael. Num Pages: 463 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JMH; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 189 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461405856
ISBN
9781461405856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.61

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98
€ 48.91

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.35

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.71
€ 46.59

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.85

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.38

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.87

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 181.56

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.20

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.41

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.50

Hardback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: JHB; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 776.
Publisher
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141428
ISBN
9780691141428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 35.96

Paperback. This book traces the transformation of opium from medicine to narcotic over a period of five hundred years. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 b/w illus. 2 maps 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521608565
ISBN
9780521608565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.13

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813546056
ISBN
9780813546056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Paperback. Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. This book challenges this notion. Editor(s): Blanes, Ruy Llera; Santo, Diana Espirito. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226081779
ISBN
9780226081779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.97

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