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Paperback. That parents in China greatly value higher education for their children is a well-known aspect of contemporary Chinese culture, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined. This title explores this universal desire for a college education and its vast consequences. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437552
ISBN
9780226437552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished village of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. This is a portrait of the rapid change of Zouping, its environs, and more. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 b/w, 7 maps, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520289710
ISBN
9780520289710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 29 black & white tables, 18 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHB; JNLC; JNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 174. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138190016
ISBN
9781138190016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.47

Hardback. News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. Series: Anthropology of the Media. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 ills. BIC Classification: JFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455798
ISBN
9781845455798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.72

Hardback. Explores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; CFG; HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226023519
ISBN
9780226023519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.09
€ 79.17

Paperback. Explores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226023526
ISBN
9780226023526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 298 pages, 4 maps, 8 figures, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226023434
ISBN
9780226023434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226336596
ISBN
9780226336596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.09
€ 78.75

Paperback. In this history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to "schools of science" and how such schools reproduce themselves over time. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBTB; JH; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226000992
ISBN
9780226000992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.52

Paperback. This work presents analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. It reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and advances. Challenging the accepted belief that social sciences are in a perpetual state of progress, this work contends that there is a core set of principles. Num Pages: 276 pages, 16 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBT; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226001012
ISBN
9780226001012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
452
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226000695
ISBN
9780226000695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 29. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226336626
ISBN
9780226336626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Hardback. Editor(s): Wernick, Andrew. Series: Anthem Companions to Sociology. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857281852
ISBN
9780857281852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.83

Hardcover. Offers a study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America. This book looks at the career of physician Alexis Carrel, as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: JHBD; PSAK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845451721
ISBN
9781845451721
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 72. BIC Classification: 1FCS; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801436314
ISBN
9780801436314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Paperback. Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? This book takes the reader on a tour of America's sports culture, connecting it with other fundamental American exceptionalisms. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JH; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691074474
ISBN
9780691074474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.69

Hardback. BIC Classification: JHB. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531144603
ISBN
9783531144603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.37

Paperback. Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 b/w line, 2 b/w halftone. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199927395
ISBN
9780199927395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.67

paperback. Series: Qualitative Sozialforschung. Num Pages: 99 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB; JMB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight in Grams: 165.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Germany
Edition
3. Aufl. 2009
Number of pages
99
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531168371
ISBN
9783531168371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.80

Paperback / so. Series: Sozialwissenschaft. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 245.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Deutscher Universit?tsverlag United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783824445769
ISBN
9783824445769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.86

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