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Paperback. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism. Num Pages: 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360100
- ISBN
- 9780822360100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.38
€ 32.99
€ 32.38
Paperback. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a unique comparison of the methods which have been employed by governments to control it. Editor(s): Pickard, Sarah. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHB; JKV; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349485727
- ISBN
- 9781349485727
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Condition: New
€ 119.15
€ 119.15
Paperback. This collection examines anti-corruption campaigns and argues that they have often resulted in perverse and unintended consequences. The book examines how corruption has been addressed (and sometimes tolerated) in Africa, Asia, Latin America and East & Central Europe to interrogate government policy and question development discourse and practice. Editor(s): Bracking, Sarah. Series: Palgrave Studies in Development. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPA; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357697
- ISBN
- 9781349357697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardcover. Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSP1; JHBL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296428
- ISBN
- 9780230296428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JHB; JHMC; JNB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333561
- ISBN
- 9781349333561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer vs United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783658068790
- ISBN
- 9783658068790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.95
€ 67.95
Hardcover. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones, Rituals of Ethnicity explores Thangmi cultural worlds and regional political histories to offer a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities despite the realities of mobile, hybrid lives. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKN; JFSL; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812246834
- ISBN
- 9780812246834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.54
€ 90.54
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology. Num Pages: 127 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; JPA; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 127
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401792486
- ISBN
- 9789401792486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.26
€ 72.26
Hardback. Sara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822369608
- ISBN
- 9780822369608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.04
€ 117.04
Paperback. Sara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822369745
- ISBN
- 9780822369745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.19
€ 29.99
€ 27.19
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press Dublin
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904558873
- ISBN
- 9781904558873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.90
€ 34.99
€ 28.90
hardcover. Investigates the psychological, social, and cultural influences that affect the way we regard and are affected by time. Using everyday examples from around the world, this work unravels the mental and biological mysteries of our relationships with time and provides an understanding of the links among behavior, brain, and genes. Series: Maps of the Mind. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHBS; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231140089
- ISBN
- 9780231140089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.56
€ 48.56
paperback. This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporary spirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRLK; JFC; JHB; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349304905
- ISBN
- 9781349304905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporary spirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 figures. BIC Classification: HRLK; HRQM2; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219397
- ISBN
- 9780230219397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226222578
- ISBN
- 9780226222578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
€ 40.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of portraiture, a method of inquiry that shares some of the features of other qualitative research methods such as ethnography, case study, and narrative placing it within the larger discourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broader terrain of qualitative research. Num Pages: 306 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780787962425
- ISBN
- 9780787962425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.31
€ 35.31
Hardcover. Explores the practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labour and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilised. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 line illustrations, 3 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021280
- ISBN
- 9780674021280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.36
€ 54.99
€ 45.36
Paperback. Focused on marital immigration from China to Taiwan, the book documents the struggles of these women and men as they seek acceptance and recognition in their new home. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 b/w, 2 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; HBTB; JFFN; JHBK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286238
- ISBN
- 9780520286238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.41
€ 33.99
€ 24.41
Paperback. Presents an ethnographic study of China/US adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. This book also follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions in both China and the US that prepare children and parents for each other; the practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; and more. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 331 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780814719725
- ISBN
- 9780814719725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardcover. * A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care including grief and bereavement. * Beginning with the physiology of the dying process and its effects on patients and their loved ones, the book addresses the range of psychological interventions that can ease the process for all. Series: Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470406939
- ISBN
- 9780470406939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.19
€ 76.19