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Sociology & anthropology

Hardcover. Harry Austryn Wolfson, world-renowned scholar and most lucid of scholarly writers, here presents in ordered detail his long-awaited study of the philosophic principles I and reasoning by which the Fathers of the Church sought to explain the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation. Num Pages: 666 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1200.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Third revised edition
Number of pages
666
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674665514
ISBN
9780674665514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.21
€ 103.22

Hardcover. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 37. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674687608
ISBN
9780674687608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.89
€ 94.92

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674831858
ISBN
9780674831858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.14
€ 90.83

Hardback. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674847651
ISBN
9780674847651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.95
€ 160.20

Hardback. Num Pages: 658 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 155 x 0. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
658
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674847668
ISBN
9780674847668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.63
€ 153.06

Paperback. Introduces the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the 'margins of Europe' recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 340 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000503
ISBN
9780691000503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Paperback. An ethnography of contemporary Java. It analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. It exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the 'accidents' that precede the formulations of culture as such. Num Pages: 350 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FMN; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000855
ISBN
9780691000855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Paperback. Based on more than three decades of observation, this title concludes that the very foundations of many social science theories - especially those in political science - are faulty. It observes that we live in a world where things are interconnected, where unintended consequences of our actions are unavoidable and unpredictable. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691005300
ISBN
9780691005300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JHM; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691010731
ISBN
9780691010731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.14

Paperback. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women track a dense social imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and eccentricities. This book explores how this storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and forms a cultural poetics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691011035
ISBN
9780691011035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.56

Paperback. Presents a collection of essays which explains a reflection on the author's project to anthropologize the West. This book attempts to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasizes those domains taken as universal, and shows how their claims to truth are linked to particular social practices, hence becoming effective social forces. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
First Printing, Underlining
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691011585
ISBN
9780691011585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.82

Paperback. Provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data? This work begins with a qualitative overview, readable even by those without a statistical background. Num Pages: 346 pages, 53 line illus. 18 tables. BIC Classification: JHBC; JMAL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691012407
ISBN
9780691012407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 59.92

Paperback. Focuses on Laweyan, a production center of batik textiles that had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of Indonesia during the twentieth century. This book portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its forms of social life and highlights the power of women in the marketplace and the home. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 halftones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691016924
ISBN
9780691016924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Paperback. Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions. Editor(s): Dirks, Nicholas B.; Eley, Geoff; Ortner, Sherry B. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 640 pages, 18 halftones 1 line illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 38. Weight in Grams: 900.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
644
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691021027
ISBN
9780691021027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.32

Paperback. In the resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain insightful. This title describes that human mental and emotional capacities, far from making human beings unique, are evidence of an animal origin and evolutionary development. Num Pages: 960 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 123 x 140 x 50. Weight in Grams: 982.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691023694
ISBN
9780691023694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.45

Paperback. Provides a comprehensive picture of the disparate field of labor demand. This book reviews both the static and dynamic theories of labor demand, and uses theory and evidence to establish a generalized framework for analyzing the impact of policies such as minimum wages, payroll taxes, job- security measures, unemployment insurance, and others. Num Pages: 464 pages, 41 line illustrations, 33 tables. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 270 x 32. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691025872
ISBN
9780691025872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.18
€ 64.29

Paperback. Encourages us to look more closely at the issues of violence, ethnicity, and the state by focusing on specific instances of violence in their local contexts. This book shows how, out of many interpretations applicable to these incidents, government and the media select those that support existing relations of power in state and society. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 317 pages, 3 line illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPA; JPH; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691026503
ISBN
9780691026503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.35

Hardback. The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. This book addresses beliefs and historical facts, and brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity. It provides insights into why people convert and how new religious groups recruit members. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones, 10 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HRC; JH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691027494
ISBN
9780691027494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.13
€ 68.64

Paperback. Presents an account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia. This book describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be - as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. It analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRH; HRLF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691028705
ISBN
9780691028705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.30
€ 55.32

Paperback. Challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. This book argues that we need to explain how race is experienced by people as a daily reality. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 halftones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; JFSL; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691028859
ISBN
9780691028859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 51.18

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