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Hardcover. Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. This book includes articles that examine children's work from the mid-1800's and until the 1990's. It is the result of an inter-Nordic research project about children's work in the Nordic countries involving various five Nordic countries. Editor(s): De Coninck-Smith, Ning; Sandin, Bengt; Sandin, Ellen. Num Pages: 211 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSP1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778382696
- ISBN
- 9788778382696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.57
€ 31.99
€ 23.57
Paperback. Provides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern Japan. This book explains that spiritual practice at the Akakura shrine is motivated by the efforts of women and men to comprehend and manage contradictory obligations and desires related to personal health, family, and work. Num Pages: 288 pages, 31 b&w photos, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HRKN3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330622
- ISBN
- 9780822330622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. An anthology applying Judith Butler's theories to religion. It uses her work to investigate a variety of topics in biblical, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. It sheds light on Butler's ideas and highlights their ethical and political import. It discusses subjects such as religious rituals, and biblical constructions of sexuality. Editor(s): Armour, Ellen T.; Ville, St. Susan M. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HR; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134071
- ISBN
- 9780231134071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 568 color photos. BIC Classification: JFCK; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 932. 176 pages, 568 colour photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFCK; JHBT. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight: 934.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Schiffer Pub Ltd
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764300172
- ISBN
- 9780764300172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.45
€ 37.99
€ 25.45
Paperback. The late Elliot Richardson, Washington's ultimate insider, examines the growing hostility of American citizens toward government and explores what it means to be a responsible American today. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBD; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402. Clean copy with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KST0018200
- ISBN
- 9780813397849
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major developments, debates, and schools of thought in social theory today. The book covers 20th-century social theory stretching from critical theory, structuralism and psychoanalysis to feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. Editor(s): Elliott, Anthony. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 29. Weight in Grams: 954.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631206491
- ISBN
- 9780631206491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.82
€ 159.82
Paperback. Selections from the best-known intellectuals and researchers in social theory around the globe. Includes discussion of not only traditional aspects of social theory, but also recent controversies surrounding such topics as self, identity and subjectivity; race, multiculturalism; modernism and postmodernism. Editor(s): Elliott, Anthony. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631206507
- ISBN
- 9780631206507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. * Contains up-to-date coverage of key theorists in sociology, social theory, philosophy, cultural studies, feminism, psychoanalysis and philosophy. * Theorists covered include Benjamin, Elias, Goffman, Lacan, Said, Jameson, Heidegger, Giddens, Bauman, Williams, and many others. Editor(s): Elliott, Anthony; Ray, Larry. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631219729
- ISBN
- 9780631219729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.07
€ 54.07
Paperback. Originally published in 1990 this second revised edition shows how to help a family struggle through one of their member's terminal illness and death, offering clinical examples and interventions. The book shows how families change the way in which they function and gives examples of factors that will influence how they cope. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSN2; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780787940508
- ISBN
- 9780787940508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.89
€ 57.89
Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648415
- ISBN
- 9780745648415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.26
€ 71.26
Paperback. Probes the experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. This book shows how surrogates and intended mothers negotiate their cooperative endeavor. It traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a transition to motherhood. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526. The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self. 384 pages, illustrations. Probes the experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. This book shows how surrogates and intended mothers negotiate their cooperative endeavor. It traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a transition to motherhood. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259645
- ISBN
- 9780520259645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JHBK; JHM; VFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226507972
- ISBN
- 9780226507972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.14
€ 31.99
€ 25.14
Paperback. The essence of this book is to assist educators to improve eduational practice in the constantly changing cultural contexts of school and society. Cross cultural dimensions such as diversity; uniformity; individualism, and collectivism emerge as key focus areas of discussion. Series: Wiley Series in Culture & Professional Practice. Num Pages: 328 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471897880
- ISBN
- 9780471897880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.84
€ 94.84
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813569703
- ISBN
- 9780813569703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFSP1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813569697
- ISBN
- 9780813569697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Hardcover. Based on fieldwork over ten years, this book builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 tables & 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBX; JFSL; JHMC; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459312
- ISBN
- 9780857459312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.28
€ 162.28
Hardcover. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group-the middle class. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248784
- ISBN
- 9780812248784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.29
€ 77.29
Hardback. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States, concluding that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761853404
- ISBN
- 9780761853404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.74
€ 139.74
Paperback. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States, concluding that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States. Num Pages: 354 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761853411
- ISBN
- 9780761853411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.88
€ 88.88
Hardback. Anthropological literature has traditionally been static and synchronic, only occasionally contributing to historical processes, however this is slowly beginning to change. This collection introduces focus and direction to this developing interface between anthropology and history. Editor(s): Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Num Pages: 344 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717922
- ISBN
- 9780804717922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.50
€ 180.50
Paperback. Why did almost 1000 highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's kamikaze operations at the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? This study of the role of the state in pushing imperial ideology shows the power of symbolic communication. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226620916
- ISBN
- 9780226620916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? And why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? This title examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other people. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 halftones 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691021102
- ISBN
- 9780691021102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardcover. This study provides ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial practices in a set of international corporate investment projects. Drawing also on historical and statistical data, it renders a comprehensive perspective on management, corporations, and capitalism in the late modern globalized economy. Num Pages: 284 pages, 15 tables & figures. BIC Classification: JHM; KCX; KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451859
- ISBN
- 9780857451859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.85
€ 162.85
Paperback. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide. This work was the result of his research. Editor(s): Sennett, Richard. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449679
- ISBN
- 9780140449679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33