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paperback. Explores the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices that oppress racially mixed families. This book traces race prejudice to the various institutions that were structured to maintain white privilege, but the core analysis is about what happens when people of different races decide to marry. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566398268
ISBN
9781566398268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754670490
ISBN
9780754670490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.41
€ 102.41

Hardcover. The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. Editor(s): Blanco, Jose-Maria; Vidal, Ricarda. Num Pages: 300 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384335
ISBN
9781782384335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.40

Hardcover. Silence is normally perceived as an absence and a withholding. The practice of silence turns it into an instrument of power. This volume examines how silence works in the perception and manipulation of sound, of speech, and of perspective in areas, such as music, language, race, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects. Editor(s): Achino-Loeb, Maria-Luisa. Num Pages: 168 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845451301
ISBN
9781845451301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.37

Paperback. Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of malaise in contemporary society. In this book, the author argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847428226
ISBN
9781847428226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 37.41

Hardback. Editor(s): Rubchak, Marian J. Translator(s): Rubchak, Marian. Num Pages: 328 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387640
ISBN
9781782387640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.00

Hardcover. Editor(s): Pitts, Marian; Smith, Anthony. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS; JFSC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403918116
ISBN
9781403918116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.89

Paperback. Freire, Teaching, and Learning Series: Counterpoints. Num Pages: 219 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JHB; JNF; JNKC; JNMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781433104060
ISBN
9781433104060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.95

Paperback. This ethnography explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in everyday material culture. The focus is on Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone and the surrounding region. Num Pages: 299 pages, 6 b/w photos, 3 line figures. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; GTB; HBJH; HBLW; JFC; JHMP; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520225435
ISBN
9780520225435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.38

Hardcover. Defines learning activity as a special kind of activity directed towards the acquisition of societal knowledge and skills through their individual reproduction by means of special learning actions upon learning objects. This book explores how learning proceeds. It examines the relation between content of knowledge, teaching and learning activity. Editor(s): Hedegaard, Mariane; Lompscher, Joachim. Num Pages: 332 pages, b/w illlus. BIC Classification: JH; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 175 x 35. Weight in Grams: 852.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772888156
ISBN
9788772888156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 12.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1 colour plate, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226808321
ISBN
9780226808321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.88

Hardback. Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 black and white, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHMC; TVT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280564
ISBN
9780520280564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.09
€ 72.21

Paperback. Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 black and white, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHMC; TVT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280571
ISBN
9780520280571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. How one set of anthropological sculptures deeply influenced modern racial perceptions Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 color photograph, 70 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; AFKB; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 244 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252036248
ISBN
9780252036248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.59

Paperback. Argues that the most promising new model for democracy is found in grassroots movements against capitalist globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JHM; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745329253
ISBN
9780745329253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A text on the nature of medical error. Covering a wider range of error than the terms 'malpractice', 'incompetence', or 'negligence' denote, it takes an existential view of medical work in which things go wrong as a matter of course, and probes what the author called the 'complex sorrow' that can result when things do go wrong. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: JH; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Temple University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592131860
ISBN
9781592131860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.51

Paperback / so. Series: Forschung Gesellschaft. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften Germany
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531148472
ISBN
9783531148472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.20

Paperback. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the megalithic necropolis of Petit- Chasseur in Sion (Valais, Switzerland), an international conference was organised from the 27th to the 29th of October 2011 in Sion. This book constitutes the conference proceedings. Editor(s): Besse, Marie. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrated throughout in black and white. BIC Classification: 1DFH; HDDA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 298 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Archaeopress United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784910242
ISBN
9781784910242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.39

Paperback. This book examines the role of participants in research and how research ethics can be put into practice. Health, social, and journalistic research are currently subject to very different forms of regulation and codes of practice. By including the experiences of researchers and their subjects the book explores the disciplinary divides. Editor(s): Smyth, Marie; Williamson, Emma. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHBC; KJG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861345141
ISBN
9781861345141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.45

Paperback. This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18. BIC Classification: HD; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745620152
ISBN
9780745620152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.96

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