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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
€ 152.87
€ 152.87
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
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
€ 29.24
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
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.34
€ 20.99
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 121.99
€ 121.99
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
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Condition: New
€ 34.76
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
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
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.48
€ 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
€ 59.26€ 54.53
€ 59.26
€ 54.53
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
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. Drawing evidence from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors illustrate that even within the common framework of economic globalization, the ways in which the interests of state actors and the agency of migrants intersects continuously shapes and reshapes both home and destination societies. Editor(s): Brickner, Rachel K. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JFFS; JHB; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349441587
- ISBN
- 9781349441587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.52
€ 62.52
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
€ 19.99
€ 14.72
Paperback. Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBK; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311316
- ISBN
- 9781349311316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230286
- ISBN
- 9780230230286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
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€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349516773
- ISBN
- 9781349516773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.53
€ 121.53
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 49.92
€ 49.92
paperback. In case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, the authors analyse how legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting key implications for social policy, human rights and social justice. Editor(s): Sieder, Rachel. Series: Institute of Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTF; JFSL1; JHMC; JPF; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 461.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780333998717
- ISBN
- 9780333998717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.99
€ 121.99