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Paperback. Music and dance play a central role in the 'healing arts' of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. This title shows how the sounds and gestures of music and dance acquire a potency that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies. Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 278 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMM; JFSL9; JHM; MMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520082816
ISBN
9780520082816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.47

Paperback / so. Series: Vs College. Num Pages: 94 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531183589
ISBN
9783531183589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.37

paperback. What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? This book draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHB; JHMC; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436. Clean copy with minor warping to covers and pages. Remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0021703
ISBN
9780520282315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case forplacing children's issues at the core of human development." Editor(s): Biggeri, Mario; Ballet, Jerome; Comim, Flavio. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSP; JHB; JHBK; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 300 x 24. Weight in Grams: 994.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349329984
ISBN
9781349329984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.65

Paperback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345459
ISBN
9780822345459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.59

Hardback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345305
ISBN
9780822345305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. Series: Treatise on Basic Philosophy. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 683.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Springer
Edition
1985th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789027719140
ISBN
9789027719140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 202.69

Paperback. Across the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses - and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. This book gathers essays by prominent sociologists and legal scholars to illuminate how and why such labor has been hidden from view. Editor(s): Crain, Marion; Poster, Winifred; Cherry, Miriam. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520287174
ISBN
9780520287174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBZ; YXZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 279.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551521411
ISBN
9781551521411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.09

Hardcover. The twin concepts of "Culture" and "Identity" are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the years their meaning has become increasingly contested. Combining an anthropological and political perspective, the authors aim to challenge the traditional boundaries within the issue of the construction of Europe. Editor(s): Demossier, Marion. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1D; JFC; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KTG0003619
ISBN
9781571816269
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

hardcover. This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above. Editor(s): Ellison, Marion. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847427274
ISBN
9781847427274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.63

Paperback. Compares the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and explains why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 17 halftones. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JJ; JHB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148038
ISBN
9780691148038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.89

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531175478
ISBN
9783531175478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.68

Paperback. This volume examines the ways youth, parents, community members, and civic leaders join forces to improve public education. Editor(s): Rogers, John; Orr, Marion. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHB; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804763561
ISBN
9780804763561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Deutscher Universitats-Verlag Germany
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9783824445783
ISBN
9783824445783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.11

Paperback. This book examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims-residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an-uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746854
ISBN
9780804746854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices. Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Num Pages: 368 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359630
ISBN
9780822359630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. The Biotechnology Act in Norway, the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people's choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state.. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFMG; JHMC; MFKC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
204
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857455024
ISBN
9780857455024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.48

Hardcover. In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of 'the field'pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having.. Editor(s): Melhuus, Marit; Mitchell, Jon P.; Wulff, Helena. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845456160
ISBN
9781845456160
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.65

Paperback. Explains migration patterns through different kinds of social networks and relations, with a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and London. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 tables, 4 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804772235
ISBN
9780804772235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

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