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Paperback. Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, this accessible and engaging book advances a uniquely sociological perspective on economy and state connections to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. Series: Polity Economy and Society Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; KC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644554
- ISBN
- 9780745644554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.01
€ 26.01
Hardback. Economic sociology is a vibrant area of research investigating how social structures, power allocations and cultural understandings shape the production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. This title intends to apply the economic sociology perspective to issues of work broadly defined. Series: Research in the Sociology of Work. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHBL; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 40. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848553682
- ISBN
- 9781848553682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.81
€ 228.81
Hardback. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, this book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147093
- ISBN
- 9780691147093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61€ 51.21
€ 64.61
€ 51.21
Hardcover. Num Pages: 650 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 650
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674258655
- ISBN
- 9780674258655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.63€ 48.60
€ 51.63
€ 48.60
Paperback. Investigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible feature influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. This book explains why skin color has become a biological trait with great social meaning - a product of evolution perceived differently by different cultures. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 color illustrations, 49 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283862
- ISBN
- 9780520283862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.01
€ 33.99
€ 25.01
Paperback. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This title celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 color photographs, 2 color maps; 36 b/w photographs, 13 line illustrations. BIC Classification: AFY; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392. A Natural History. 288 pages, illustrations. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This title celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AFY; JHMC. Dimension: 215 x 153 x 18. Weight: 392.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275898
- ISBN
- 9780520275898
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.54
€ 27.99
€ 21.54
Hardcover. Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications - as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents - from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism's emergence as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project.. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Irving, Andrew. Num Pages: 268 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384458
- ISBN
- 9781782384458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.89
€ 161.89
Hardback. The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them. Series Editor(s): Rhodes, Rod. Series: Political and Administrative Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSB; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526101341
- ISBN
- 9781526101341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.61
€ 155.61
Hardcover. Editor(s): Witoszek, Nina; Tragardh, Lars. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DNS; HB; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571812698
- ISBN
- 9781571812698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.49
€ 161.49
Hardcover. Establishes a line of enquiry into the relationship between tourism and modernity. This book contextualizes it in terms of relationship between Logos-modernity and Eros-modernity. It focuses on the conditions of modernity that lure tourists towards pleasure travel. It also looks at the relationship between modernity and motivations of tourists. Editor(s): Jafari, Jafar. Series: Tourism Social Science Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; JHBA; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780080434469
- ISBN
- 9780080434469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.94
€ 206.94
Paperback. Deeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers on the Edge .. makes an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of who belongs in the North. -- Farley Mowat Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1MTN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814683
- ISBN
- 9780774814683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.57
€ 40.99
€ 36.57
Hardback. Deeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers on the Edge .. makes an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of who belongs in the North. -- Farley Mowat Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; JFFN; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814676
- ISBN
- 9780774814676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.86
€ 113.86
Paperback. Details the culinary life of a Vietnamese town Num Pages: 344 pages, 14 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFCV; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223708
- ISBN
- 9780253223708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.42
€ 26.99
€ 25.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679740384
- ISBN
- 9780679740384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.44
€ 19.99
€ 18.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFFE; JHB; JPFM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171968
- ISBN
- 9780691171968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.17
€ 42.99
€ 31.17
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFFE; JHB; JPFM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171951
- ISBN
- 9780691171951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.62€ 70.89
€ 91.62
€ 70.89
hardcover. Examining politics in a small Afghan town that managed to remain relatively peaceful in the years following the fall of the Taliban, this book calls examines how and when violence erupts and calls into question the international community's approach to developing stability in Afghanistan. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776714
- ISBN
- 9780804776714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.42
€ 132.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HRHP; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 374 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165158
- ISBN
- 9780691165158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.42
€ 40.99
€ 29.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 458 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- The New Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565847941
- ISBN
- 9781565847941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.01
€ 32.01
paperback. An examination of the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on their political, social and economic struggles. The authors suggest some of the ways in which diasporas are transforming global society today. Editor(s): Adachi, Nobuko. Num Pages: 308 pages, 7 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415497459
- ISBN
- 9780415497459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.39
€ 84.39
Hardback. Showcases varied and complex disciplinary practices and relationships in a set of ethnographic studies. Interrogating the respective fields of work, religion, governance, leisure, education and child rearing, together the essays in this book explore and offer different ways of thinking about discipline in everyday life. Editor(s): Dyck, Noel. Series: EASA Series. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454012
- ISBN
- 9781845454012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.65
€ 160.65
Hardcover. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world. Editor(s): Salazar, Noel B.; Graburn, Nelson H. H. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: JHBS; JHMC; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383673
- ISBN
- 9781782383673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.08
€ 162.08
Hardcover. Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. Editor(s): Salazar, Noel B.; Jayaram, Kiran. Series: Worlds in Motion. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFM; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 280 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331466
- ISBN
- 9781785331466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.52
€ 155.52
Paperback. Bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Fields of Play offers a rich understanding of an area that has, to date, garnered relatively little attention by social scientists. Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442600799
- ISBN
- 9781442600799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.80
€ 34.99
€ 31.80