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Hardback. 'The Forest People without a Forest' explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFJA; JHMC; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 252 x 2. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333804
ISBN
9781785333804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.85

Hardback. In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life-the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia-to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DD; HBJD1; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360599
ISBN
9780822360599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.26

Paperback. Centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships with both men and women. These women reject marriage, preferring to create their own families of kin, lovers, and children. Analyzing this phenomenon, known as mati work, this book describes the lives of Afro-Surinamese women. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL3; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450. Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. 336 pages, 3 illustrations. Centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships with both men and women. These women reject marriage, preferring to create their own families of kin, lovers, and children. Analyzing this phenomenon, known as mati work, this book describes the lives of Afro-Surinamese women. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL3; JHBK5. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight: 452.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231131636
ISBN
9780231131636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.22

Paperback. In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life-the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia-to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DD; HBJD1; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360759
ISBN
9780822360759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. In many South Asian oral traditions, women are viewed as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity. This ethnographical study of women in certain North Indian villages criticizes local ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFK; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520083714
ISBN
9780520083714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.47

paperback. Explores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses. Series: Sexuality Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774812467
ISBN
9780774812467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.09

Hardback. This is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. The contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities and offer a range of conflicting perspectives. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFCX; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742509337
ISBN
9780742509337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 188.25

paperback. * This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. * Despite widespread interest across the social sciences in these issues of late, most textbooks have been written with the needs of health professionals in mind. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745625348
ISBN
9780745625348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.88

Hardback. * This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. * Despite widespread interest across the social sciences in these issues of late, most textbooks have been written with the needs of health professionals in mind. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745625331
ISBN
9780745625331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.49

Paperback. Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon look at the role of culture in reproducing and contesting social relations of class, gender and race. They focus on relationships between culture, subjectivity, and power, in what is the first comprehensive introduction to contemporary cultural politics. Num Pages: 640 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JFS; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1008.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631162285
ISBN
9780631162285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.95

Paperback. Suitable for students and those who want to take their technical skills for instructors who want a text for second methods course, this title teaches social scientists how to get out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that describes strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 line illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691135670
ISBN
9780691135670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. Chapters based on fieldwork from such diverse sites as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, and Vietnam demonstrate how sharing and tolerance are both more complex and multifaceted than they are often recognized to be. Editor(s): Bowman, Glenn. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387442
ISBN
9781782387442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.79

Hardcover. The Politics and Pragmatics of Inter-communal Relations Around Holy Places. 196 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Bowman, Glenn. By including both historical processes and particular events, this volume demonstrates the importance of understanding the wider contexts within which social interactions take place and shows that tolerance and inter-communalism are simultaneously possible and perpetually under threat. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: HRLF; JFSR; JHMC. Dimension: 152 x 236 x 14. Weight: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857454867
ISBN
9780857454867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.77

Paperback. Asks whether traditional observations about farm families apply to three hundred Iowa children who grew up with some tie to the land during the agricultural crisis of the 1980s, a time of widespread farm bankruptcies and factory closings. The answer, the authors show, is a resounding yes. Series: The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health & Development, Studies on Successful Adolescent Development. Num Pages: 394 pages, 37 line drawings, 56 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; 3JJPN; JFSP1; JHBK; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226212531
ISBN
9780226212531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312042073
ISBN
9780312042073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.35

Paperback. Challenges currently accepted practices that involve coercing or controlling teenagers, identifying seven negative behaviors that should be avoided by parents while demonstrating how to accomplish goals in a relationship with a teen by changing the adult's behavior. Reprint. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JMC; PSAK; VFXC1; VS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060007997
ISBN
9780060007997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.59

Hardback. Contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color. They expose the complex and contradictory strategies that Black researchers must use to implement and develop their community-centered research agenda. Editor(s): Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys L.; Hordge-Freeman, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSB; JFSL3; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137553935
ISBN
9781137553935
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.35

Paperback. Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes. Editor(s): Giulianotti, Richard; Robertson, Roland. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBS; JPS; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 246 x 8. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405162692
ISBN
9781405162692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.20

Hardback. Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy, nor a cruel and mean passion, nor a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509511846
ISBN
9781509511846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Paperback. Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy, nor a cruel and mean passion, nor a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509511853
ISBN
9781509511853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.74

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