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Hardcover. All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Editor(s): Strecker, Ivo; Verne, Markus. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 figs & ills. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459350
ISBN
9780857459350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.82

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861341952
ISBN
9781861341952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 41.25

Paperback. In this famous study, the author argues that the familiar correlation between educational training and job performance is a myth and that the upgrading of the supply of labor is meaningless unless we reconsider the nature of the demand. A lengthy new introduction by the author extends his critique into the 1990s. Series: Ewp Foundations of Sociology. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Eliot Werner Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780971242753
ISBN
9780971242753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.73

Paperback. A richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Exploring how civilians coped with desperate circumstances, it argues that ethnonational divisions were the result rather than the cause of the war. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; HBW; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221893
ISBN
9780812221893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Hardcover. Bayesian Inference in the Social Sciences builds upon the recent growth in Bayesian methodology and examines an array of topics in model formulation, estimation, and applications. Particular emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary coverage, model checking, and modern computational tools such as Markov chain Monte Carlo. Editor(s): Jeliazkov, Ivan; Yang, Xin-She. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118771211
ISBN
9781118771211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.54

Paperback. Draws out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing - in the mix and on the margins of verse and prose, painting and writing, fiction and fact - to revisit the sometimes academically resistant idea that there is more than one way to say (and therefore to see) things. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 161 pages, 5 colour illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759103368
ISBN
9780759103368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.07

Hardback. Editor(s): Strenski, Ivan. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFHF; JHM; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631219
ISBN
9780691631219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.87

Hardback. Istvan Meszaros is a world-renowned philosopher and critic. He left his native Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956. He is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the chair of philosophy for fifteen years. Among his many books are Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness Volumes I and II, The Work of Sartre, The Struct Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583675397
ISBN
9781583675397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.31
€ 69.86

Paperback. From the American Century to the Crossroads. 128 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JH; JPS. Dimension: 203 x 138 x 9. Weight: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583670521
ISBN
9781583670521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.51

Hardback. This book explores how Arab workers (mainly women) and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work. It examines the tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial life, as well as the complications created by Arab-Jewish political and military conflict. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHBA; JHMC; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804737852
ISBN
9780804737852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.73

Paperback. The Right Spouse offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past, one or two generations ago, and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present. Num Pages: 224 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804790499
ISBN
9780804790499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520243149
ISBN
9780520243149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.92

Hardback. This book provides innovative views in the multidisciplinary research field of intergenerational family relations in society, with a focus on Europe. Different, but complementary, perspectives are integrated in one volume bringing together international scholars from sociology, psychology and economics. Editor(s): Albert, Isabelle; Ferringl, Dieter. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447300984
ISBN
9781447300984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.79

Paperback. Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements. Editor(s): Clough Marinaro, Isabella; Thomassen, Bjorn. Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 310 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012951
ISBN
9780253012951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.98

Hardback. Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This book examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements. Editor(s): Clough Marinaro, Isabella; Thomassen, Bjorn. Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 310 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012883
ISBN
9780253012883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.22

Hardback. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMNX; HRLF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782385646
ISBN
9781782385646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.08

Paperback. Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. This book focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations facsim., maps, plan, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DV; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st Edition Thus.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099740216
ISBN
9780099740216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Hardcover. By integrating family therapy principles and individual dynamics, the authors have devised a unique method of face-to-face problem solving, sometimes with the entire family, often in sessions with individual members, to help restore parental responsibility and to realign relationships with the divorcing family. Num Pages: 302 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB1; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780765702128
ISBN
9780765702128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.43

Hardback. A provocative examination of the property tax revolt of the 1970s that explains why contemporary American politics is now consumed with conflicts over big tax cuts. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JH; JP; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758703
ISBN
9780804758703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 382 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; AFF; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 728.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764333620
ISBN
9780764333620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.26

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