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Sociology & anthropology

Hardback. Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a "modern" identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an "African" identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK5; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 603.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
324
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857454782
ISBN
9780857454782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.83

Paperback. Goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests. This work offers an analysis of what the luxury service consists of, how managers organize its production, and how workers and guests negotiate the inequality between them. Num Pages: 373 pages, 2 line illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFFT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510. Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels. 373 pages, 2 line illustrations, 5 tables. Goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests. This work offers an analysis of what the luxury service consists of, how managers organize its production, and how workers and guests negotiate the inequality between them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFFT; JHM. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight: 510.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
373
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520247826
ISBN
9780520247826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. This is a guide for helping women who call off a wedding or break an engagement. Itresource speaks frankly to women who are on the fence about breaking off a relationship, those who have broken their engagements, and to women whose fiances have called it off. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; VS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 361.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787967482
ISBN
9780787967482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 18.34

Paperback. The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. This book uses conceptual frameworks, policy analysis and empirical studies of migrants to explore international migrants' needs for and access to social protection across the world. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JHB; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349319152
ISBN
9781349319152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.23

Hardback. How the Israelites and their neighbors treated the dead, and why their practices challenged the young religion. "A sparkling synthesis of the behaviors, attitudes, and theologies relating to death from the earliest settlement of the land of Israel to this day..A wonderful read."-Baruch Halpern. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566634014
ISBN
9781566634014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.76

Hardback. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780822351436
ISBN
9780822351436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.91

Paperback. Details the technical, ethical, and affective formation of physicians Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444. An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education. Series: Experimental Futures. 312 pages. Details the technical, ethical, and affective formation of physicians. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM; MBD. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351573
ISBN
9780822351573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Series: Animalibus. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFZ; TTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271053738
ISBN
9780271053738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.48

Hardback. The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact. Num Pages: 224 pages, 31, 21 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHBS; TB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891465
ISBN
9780801891465
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 54.76

Paperback. Based on extensive fieldwork, Women of Fes shows how Moroccan women create their own forms of identity through work, family, and society. The book also examines how women's lives are positioned vis-a-vis globalization, human rights, and the construction of national identity. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1HBM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221312
ISBN
9780812221312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, 54 illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 191. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607749783
ISBN
9781607749783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Set in a New Jersey suburb outside New York City, the author takes us into people's homes; their community meetings, where they debate security gates and school redistricting; and even their cars, to offer an intimate view of the tensions and uncertainties of being middle class at that time. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277755
ISBN
9780520277755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Focusing on paternity as a category of family history, Contested Paternity emphasizes the importance of fatherhood, the family, and the law within the greater context of changing attitudes toward parental responsibility. Num Pages: 368 pages, 14, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801888328
ISBN
9780801888328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.13

Paperback. In this comprehensive study of the legal regulation of interracial relationships, Rachel Moran grapples with the consequences of the not too distant history whereby states could legally punish minorities who had relationships with persons outside of their racial groups. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HB; JHBC; LA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
0002-
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226536637
ISBN
9780226536637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474280600
ISBN
9781474280600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.96

Paperback. From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHM; KJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223156
ISBN
9780812223156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199607945
ISBN
9780199607945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.47

paperback. Series: Routledge Revivals. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415573153
ISBN
9780415573153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.53

Paperback. Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (Mono). Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781118880012
ISBN
9781118880012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.71

Hardcover. Up, Down, & Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debt culture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land & resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, & corporate surrogacy within family life. Essential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship Editor(s): Stryker, Rachael; Gonzalez, Roberto. Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384014
ISBN
9781782384014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.52

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