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Paperback. This work is a vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the lens of "evolutionary mythology". Using his explorations of the diverse ecosystems in this region, the author ponders the role of evolution and myth in American culture. Num Pages: 174 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KBBWR; JFHF; PSAJ; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 40.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
20 Anv
Number of pages
167
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236592
ISBN
9780520236592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.51

Paperback. Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. Num Pages: 605 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1F; 1H; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 868. 605 pages, 2 tables. Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1F; 1H; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight: 842.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
605
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236424
ISBN
9780520236424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.91

Paperback. A painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous western-style rational economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self- sustaining society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and more productive model of change. Num Pages: 331 pages, 9 line illustrations, 3 maps, 18 tables. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235915
ISBN
9780520235915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Hardback. Presents a study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves. This work offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 339 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 302 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235571
ISBN
9780520235571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 63.58

Paperback. Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Num Pages: 282 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; GTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400. Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. 282 pages, 3 tables. Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; GTB; JFSL. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235274
ISBN
9780520235274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FB; 1QDT; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234826
ISBN
9780520234826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.51

Paperback. Investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. This book relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 330 pages, 21 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234567
ISBN
9780520234567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.08

Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
417
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234246
ISBN
9780520234246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.78

Hardback. The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during WWII. This work traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization. Num Pages: 672 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1092.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234079
ISBN
9780520234079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 64.09

Paperback. To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. This work aims to take readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion and into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HRCC92; HRCV; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520233942
ISBN
9780520233942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. This text questions established ideas and proposes theories based on the author's comparative archaeological and ethnographic research. It seeks to provide students and general readers with an introduction to his ideas about understanding the human past. Num Pages: 260 pages, 68 line illustrations, 79 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 1HFMW; 1KB; 1MBF; HDA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition, With a New Afterword
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520233393
ISBN
9780520233393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. Presents the thirty-year story of students, faculty, and administrators struggling with the politics of race in higher education at U C Berkeley's prestigious law school - one of the first institutions to implement affirmative action policies and one of the first to be forced to remove them. Num Pages: 262 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFFJ; JFSL; JNMN; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520233096
ISBN
9780520233096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. Provides an account of the common social, economic, and labor problems modern governments confront and their contrasting styles of conflict resolution. This work specifies similarities and differences in the structure and interplay of government, political parties, the mass media, industry, labor, professions, churches and voluntary associations. Num Pages: 922 pages, 18 line illustrations, 89 tables. BIC Classification: JPHV; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
922
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232792
ISBN
9780520232792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.63
€ 44.83

Paperback. Deals with the idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century. This work states that the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. Num Pages: 275 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 13 line illustrations, 29 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFSL9; JHBK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232426
ISBN
9780520232426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. Is globalization generating both problems and opportunities? Are new problems replacing or intensifying state repression? How effective are new forms of human rights accountability? This work addresses new questions about globalization and human rights. It also includes chapters on sex tourism, international markets, and communications technology. Editor(s): Brysk, Alison. Num Pages: 321 pages, 2 line illustrations, 14 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232389
ISBN
9780520232389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.13

Paperback. In May 1998, India shocked the world - and many of its own citizens - by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. This title presents a comprehensive history of how the world's largest democracy, has grappled with the twin desires to have and to renounce the bomb. Num Pages: 654 pages, 21 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JPQB; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition,Revised
Number of pages
654
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232105
ISBN
9780520232105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.54

Paperback. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, this book offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. It tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 219 pages, 16 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232082
ISBN
9780520232082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. Offers information on who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. This book offers an introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language. It lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet the Undue Attention Test. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232075
ISBN
9780520232075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. Exploring what is unique about the Catholic worldview and culture and what distinguishes it from Protestantism, this text examines the religious imagination that shapes Catholic life. In doing so, it challenges assumptions and makes a case for the vitality of contemporary Catholic culture. Num Pages: 213 pages, 23 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRCC7; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232044
ISBN
9780520232044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.70

Paperback. Exploring the phenomenon of divorce in American society, this book looks at divorce as a legal action, as an individual experience, and as a cultural symbol in its era of institutionalization. It analyzes the legal and legislative aspects of divorce and the public response to them. Num Pages: 249 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFC; JHBK; LA; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520231962
ISBN
9780520231962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

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