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Hardback. This is a major new account of the nature of religion and its changing role in modern societies, by one of the most original French sociologists writing on religion today. In a stylish and accessible study, Hervieu--Leger addresses the problem of how to distinguish religion from other systems of meaning in modern Western society. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620466
- ISBN
- 9780745620466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.40
€ 72.40
Paperback. In 1996, an older woman in Lima, Peru - part of a group of women street sweepers protesting the privatization of the city's cleaning services - stripped to the waist in full view of the crowd that surrounded her. This title analyzes the ramifications of this act within the city's conflicted history and across its class divisions. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226280981
- ISBN
- 9780226280981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.58
€ 35.99
€ 28.58
Paperback. Shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city of Athens could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. This book shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHMC; JKVP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691094892
- ISBN
- 9780691094892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.68
€ 54.99
€ 39.68
Paperback. Draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco to offer a portrait of these unusual specialists, their work, and their clients. This work presents an analysis of how gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy shape all of our social experiences. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226482583
- ISBN
- 9780226482583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Resnick, Danielle; Thurlow, James. Series: Routledge Studies in African Development. Num Pages: 206 pages, 49 black & white illustrations, 33 black & white tables, 16 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; GTF; JFSP2; JHM; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138630451
- ISBN
- 9781138630451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.39€ 36.55
€ 55.39
€ 36.55
Paperback. Written from foster mothers' perspectives, this book voices the often painful experiences of contemporary US foster mothers as they struggle to mother and care-work in the face of exploitative social relations with the state. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814793473
- ISBN
- 9780814793473
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. This book shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 maps. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFC; JHM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 266 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095912
- ISBN
- 9780691095912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.94€ 45.69
€ 58.94
€ 45.69
Paperback. Explains how systemic thinking works and how Systemic Action Research can be embedded into organisational structures and processes to catalyse sustainable change and critical local interventions. This book details how to design a programme and build it directly into policy and practice development. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 241 x 11. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861347374
- ISBN
- 9781861347374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 40.81
€ 42.99
€ 40.81
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447311379
- ISBN
- 9781447311379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.04
€ 34.99
€ 32.04
Paperback. An in depth examination of the impact that a global population of 10 billion will have on the planet and how we will have to adapt to cope with it. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780334912
- ISBN
- 9781780334912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. Pathbreaking studies of the postsocialist transition Editor(s): Bunzl, Matti. Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221704
- ISBN
- 9780253221704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. Explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied the many transitions since 1990. This book combines an ethnographic account of everyday life under socialist rule and after German reunification with an investigation of the paradoxical human condition of a borderland. Num Pages: 307 pages, 30 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFC; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214774
- ISBN
- 9780520214774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.60
€ 34.99
€ 25.60
Paperback. The first book-length examination of North American Croatian diaspora responses to war and independence, We are Now a Nation highlights the contradictions and paradoxes of contemporary debates about identity, politics, and place. Series: Anthropological Horizons. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442616035
- ISBN
- 9781442616035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.91
€ 33.91
Paperback. A wide-ranging contribution to the field of gender studies which aims to tease out surprising insights of contemporary psychoanalysis to show why there is little chance of a harmonious relationship between a man and a woman. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JMAF; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571179312
- ISBN
- 9780571179312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
€ 14.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions. Series: Key Concepts. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745626697
- ISBN
- 9780745626697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.49
€ 24.49
Paperback. A collection of readings for students undertaking any kind of social science inquiry. Editor Darin Weinberg has selected articles first and foremost for their conceptual accessibility and provides editorial introductions for students being introduced to research methods for the first time. Editor(s): Weinberg, Darin. Series: Blackwell Readers in Sociology. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631217626
- ISBN
- 9780631217626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Hardback. Provides a critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. This book traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909249
- ISBN
- 9781439909249
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.88
€ 55.88
Hardback. Presents a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry - even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe's most restrictive gold laws. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLW3; JH; KCC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126975
- ISBN
- 9780691126975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.52€ 63.82
€ 82.52
€ 63.82
Hardback. Written by one of criminology's few internationally-recognised figures. Has potential to be a classic, "must-read" text, offering a sweeping overview of anxieties about crime in Europe and the US and the public and political responses to them. Clear linear development through history from the Renaissance to today. Num Pages: 324 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JHB; JKVC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745634289
- ISBN
- 9780745634289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.49
€ 78.49
Hardback. Series: ILR Press Book. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JHBL; KNDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801442896
- ISBN
- 9780801442896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.75
€ 37.75
Paperback. Focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, this book theorizes and re-imagines a range of historical and contemporary issues related to the broader questions of blackness, diaspora, hegemony, transnationalism, and 'Black Europe' itself as lived and perceived realities. Editor(s): Hine, Darlene Clark; Keaton, Tricia; Small, Stephen. Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076572
- ISBN
- 9780252076572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Paperback. Editor(s): Graves, Darrel. Num Pages: 91 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCFM; KJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 232 x 8. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634633918
- ISBN
- 9781634633918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.19€ 70.11
€ 100.19
€ 70.11
Hardcover. These eleven essays offer critical engagement in understanding the sky in human imagination and culture and contribute to this new field emerging within the academy. Editor(s): Gunzburg, Darrelyn. Series: The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives. Num Pages: 286 pages, 97 figures. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRLK; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 5135.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791677
- ISBN
- 9781781791677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.46
€ 135.46
Paperback. This paperback includes work on sadomasochism from across the social sciences including discussions of the history and culture of SM, medical and legal issues, along with theory and original research on the topic. With contributions from academics, practitioners and activists, this book represents cutting edge work in the field. Editor(s): Langdridge, Darren; Richards, C.; Barker, Meg John. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137338372
- ISBN
- 9781137338372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.98
€ 59.98