Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Hardback. Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent we ." Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHMC; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088641
- ISBN
- 9780674088641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.02
€ 52.02
Paperback. New edition of this classic work which asks: How do objects that are of little worth or worth nothing become valuable? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745399782
- ISBN
- 9780745399782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.86
€ 36.99
€ 28.86
paperback. Michael Tenzer offers a study of Balinese gamelan music, focusing on the pre-eminent 20th-century genre, gamelan gong kebyar. He applies music theory and analysis to this non-Western orchestral genre to discuss composition and structure, as well as looking at the ethographic background. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 504 pages, 27 halftones, 70 music examples, 26 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; AVGE; AVGH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 33. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226792835
- ISBN
- 9780226792835
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Condition: New
€ 71.30€ 60.16
€ 71.30
€ 60.16
Paperback. Offers a penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, the author chronicles two weeks in a small town in Colombia's Cauca Valley taken over by paramilitaries that brazenly assassinate adolescent gang members. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 204 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790145
- ISBN
- 9780226790145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.82
€ 31.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Michael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian miners, now being drawn into cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790091
- ISBN
- 9780226790091
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.66
€ 40.99
€ 31.66
Hardback. A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790053
- ISBN
- 9780226790053
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Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 78.49
€ 95.07
€ 78.49
Paperback. Begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. Num Pages: 192 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789866
- ISBN
- 9780226789866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.76
€ 32.99
€ 25.76
Hardback. Begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. Num Pages: 192 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789859
- ISBN
- 9780226789859
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Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 78.49
€ 95.07
€ 78.49
Paperback. "Defacement" asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732000
- ISBN
- 9780804732000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226310855
- ISBN
- 9780226310855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.17
€ 27.99
€ 23.17
Paperback. Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This title exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, that is combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 69. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789835
- ISBN
- 9780226789835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.06
€ 31.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790060
- ISBN
- 9780226790060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Hardback. Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731997
- ISBN
- 9780804731997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.25
€ 161.25
Paperback. Looks at the interaction between civilized and primitive people in Colombia, examines the role of the shaman, and discusses healing practices in the jungle. Num Pages: 538 pages, 104ill.3M. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 538
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790138
- ISBN
- 9780226790138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.35
€ 44.99
€ 34.35
Paperback. Editor(s): Sweet, Michael; Michaelsen, Larry K. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; JNF; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stylus Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781579226107
- ISBN
- 9781579226107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.72
€ 56.72
Hardcover. Editor(s): Sweet, Michael; Michaelsen, Larry K. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JNF; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 731.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stylus Publishing
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781579226091
- ISBN
- 9781579226091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 216.83
€ 216.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 123 x 29. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AK Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849350976
- ISBN
- 9781849350976
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.11
€ 20.99
€ 20.11
Paperback. Introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and provides the criteria for 'best' confidence intervals, along with the trade-offs between confidence and precision. This book covers topics such as the transformation principle, confidence intervals, and the relationship between confidence interval and significance testing frameworks. Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 104 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761924999
- ISBN
- 9780761924999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.25
€ 47.25
Paperback. Series: Sage Foundations of Psychology Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JMA; JMB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 249 x 189 x 38. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761960317
- ISBN
- 9780761960317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.32
€ 80.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Familius LLC
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939629661
- ISBN
- 9781939629661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.66
€ 17.99
€ 16.66