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Paperback. In China, the practice of drinking tea is about much more than soaking leaves in a cup of hot water. Cha Dao takes us on a fascinating journey through the Way of Tea, from its origins in the sacred temples of ancient China, through its links to Daoist concepts such as or non-striving, to the affinity between Tea Mind and the Japanese spirit of Zen. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848190320
- ISBN
- 9781848190320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.65
€ 25.65
Hardback. With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres. Editor(s): Lefebvre, Solange; Beaman, Lori G. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSR; JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442648623
- ISBN
- 9781442648623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardcover. Presents a study of the phenomenon of romantic love. Offering observations from a range of sources - literary, historical, and personal - this work explores the crucial ingredients of time and sex in contemporary relationships and discusses whether love 'at first sight' is possible, and whether love that lasts a lifetime is probable. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208582
- ISBN
- 9780872208582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.68€ 43.45
€ 54.68
€ 43.45
Hardback. No question is more pertinent to worker welfare than explaining changes in overall income inequality. The papers presented in this volume explore this important issue and evaluate government programmes and their impact upon welfare. Editor(s): Polachek, S.W. Series: Research in Labor Economics. Num Pages: 524 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; JPQB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 36. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762310265
- ISBN
- 9780762310265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.43
€ 176.43
Paperback. The polyethnic contexts of societies provide a particular situation in which people with various languages, religion, and cultures live within the same geographical space. In Iran, a highlevel ethno-lingual diversity is present, for example Lor, Kurd, Gilak, Arab, Balouch, Turk, Turkmen and religious groups such as Assyrians, Armenians, Jews, and Z Series: UvA Proefschriften. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 2340 x 1560. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vossiuspers UvA Netherlands
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9789056297411
- ISBN
- 9789056297411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 102.03
€ 102.03
Paperback. An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society Editor(s): Sommer, Doris. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822334996
- ISBN
- 9780822334996
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.90
€ 41.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; HRLM7; JFMX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 323.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021366
- ISBN
- 9780253021366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781483325217
- ISBN
- 9781483325217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.07
€ 105.07
Hardback. Major new contribution to the hot topic of children and internet from one of the world's leading researchers in this area. Considers children's everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex socio-cultural conditions of contemporary childhood. Num Pages: 314 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745631943
- ISBN
- 9780745631943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. Anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 188 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222685
- ISBN
- 9780812222685
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. Series: Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies. Num Pages: 325 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures, 41 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTF; HBTQ; HBTR; JHBL; KCF; KNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780674142404
- ISBN
- 9780674142404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.46
€ 50.99
€ 42.46
Paperback. "The squeezed middle" brings together leading experts from both sides of the Atlantic to ask what the UK can learn from the US experience of stagnating wages and rising living costs. Editor(s): Parker, Sophia. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447308935
- ISBN
- 9781447308935
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.39
€ 36.99
€ 35.39
Paperback. * Contemporary advanced societies. * Informed by extensive fieldwork, including interviews with mayors, judges, police officers, community leaders and grass--roots organizations. Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change. Num Pages: 328 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QFH; JFFA; JFFC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205210
- ISBN
- 9780631205210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.73
€ 33.73
Paperback. Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of "told-to" narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774819800
- ISBN
- 9780774819800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Hardcover. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Editor(s): Altorki, Soraya. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781118475614
- ISBN
- 9781118475614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 218.43
€ 218.43
Hardback. Comments on the Danish novel "Two Ages", which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism. This title commends the author's shrewdness, and his critique builds on the novel's view of the two generations. Editor(s): Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna H. Translator(s): Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna H. Series: Kierkegaard's Writings. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691072265
- ISBN
- 9780691072265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.61€ 98.65
€ 129.61
€ 98.65
Hardcover. Num Pages: 244 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 259 x 23. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Har/Cdr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606928202
- ISBN
- 9781606928202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.00€ 95.53
€ 138.00
€ 95.53
Paperback. "Personal Knowledge and Beyond" seeks to foster a cross-disciplinary rethinking of ethnography's possibilities and limits for the study of religions. It provides an overview of recent debates while also pushing them in new directions. Editor(s): Spickard, Jim; Landres, Shawn; McGuire, Meredith B. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HR; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814798034
- ISBN
- 9780814798034
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. * Collects 31 articles by renowned scholars illustrating key ideas in the canon and the currency of cultural sociology. * Surveys the most important approaches and developments in the field. * Contains an editora s introduction and notes on further reading after each essay. . Editor(s): Spillman, Lyn. Series: Blackwell Readers in Sociology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631216537
- ISBN
- 9780631216537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.41
€ 46.41
Hardcover. Presents a portrait of Begay family's decision to return to the Navajo reservation and reclaim its cultural identity. This book examines the spiritual healing that can take place when cultural identity is honored and restored. Num Pages: 200 pages, 82 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCP; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 283 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890135549
- ISBN
- 9780890135549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.68€ 43.45
€ 54.68
€ 43.45
Paperback. Outlines the author's philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists everywhere through stories of his own experience toppling dictatorships (peacefully) and of smaller examples of social change (like Occupy Wall Street or fighting for gay rights). Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922247872
- ISBN
- 9781922247872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. An ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, in which, the author depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 scattered b&w. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282452
- ISBN
- 9780520282452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 506 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; HBJD; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691650272
- ISBN
- 9780691650272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.30€ 171.35
€ 228.30
€ 171.35
Paperback. The therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicine Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: JHM; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222459
- ISBN
- 9780253222459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56