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Paperback. "Forgive and Remember" is a work about errors in the practice of surgery, written by a sociologist who spent 18 months with the surgical service of a major American teaching hospital. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; MN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 212 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226066783
ISBN
9780226066783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve? This book addresses these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that the author's ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226066776
ISBN
9780226066776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Paperback. This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 344 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361244
ISBN
9780822361244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 344 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361053
ISBN
9780822361053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.89

Hardback. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHB; JNB; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114203
ISBN
9780230114203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.21
€ 45.85

Paperback. Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. This book provides an investigation of the comparative foundations of evolutionary anthropology in research, including studies of animal behavior, biodiversity, linguistic evolution, allometry, and cross-cultural variation. Num Pages: 424 pages, 20 halftones, 111 line drawings, 14 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226608990
ISBN
9780226608990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HR; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761809241
ISBN
9780761809241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.57

Hardback. This absorbing book unravels the reasons for the enduring respect and reverence that Muhammad Ali commands long after the end of his athletic career. It will appeal to those teaching and studying cultural studies, social theory, sports studies, and sociology, as well as to general readers interested in Muhammad Ali. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHBA; WSTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745628707
ISBN
9780745628707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Paperback. This absorbing book unravels the reasons for the enduring respect and reverence that Muhammad Ali commands long after the end of his athletic career. It will appeal to those teaching and studying cultural studies, social theory, sports studies, and sociology, as well as to general readers interested in Muhammad Ali. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHBA; WSTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745628714
ISBN
9780745628714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.74

Hardcover. Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and Authenticity , Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different cultures, historical material, and comparative philosophy, to explore how notions of authenticity develop, what forms it takes, and how it changes over time. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405124423
ISBN
9781405124423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.77

Paperback. Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and Authenticity , Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different cultures, historical material, and comparative philosophy, to explore how notions of authenticity develop, what forms it takes, and how it changes over time. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405124430
ISBN
9781405124430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HPS; JHB; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137401939
ISBN
9781137401939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.56

Paperback. Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JH; KNXC; TGPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
386
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691004129
ISBN
9780691004129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. Arguing that village life is an effect of the modern and the global, this text analyzes everyday and social practices, and suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Num Pages: 226 pages, 12 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFSF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226669694
ISBN
9780226669694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.92

Hardback. Editor(s): Piot, Charles. Num Pages: 232 pages, 33 photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFDT; GTF; JHMC; JKSN1; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361763
ISBN
9780822361763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVGS; HBJD; HDD; HRCS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226425245
ISBN
9780226425245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.01

Hardback. In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of models of social change to show how ingenious and subversive acts disrupt traditional practices of liberal citizenship in order to exercise political agency. Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360216
ISBN
9780822360216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of models of social change to show how ingenious and subversive acts disrupt traditional practices of liberal citizenship in order to exercise political agency. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360377
ISBN
9780822360377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Hardback. This work tackles fundamental questions about personal, political and national identities and their linkage to processes of political and social change. It focuses on the role of stories, both as a means of creating personal identity and as explanations of political tensions and realities. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742518810
ISBN
9780742518810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.13

Hardback. Series: Quantitative studies in History Series. Num Pages: 402 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691642727
ISBN
9780691642727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.37

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