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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Offers lessons about civil society and regime change - and about the paths to democratic consolidation. This book shows that the German experience was exceptional, and that what is often labeled polarization is the result of such factors as expansion of the franchise, elite defections, and the mobilization of new voters. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 line illus. 50 tables. BIC Classification: JHBC; JPHV; JPHX; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691089706
- ISBN
- 9780691089706
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€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. The dead tell no tales. Or do they? This book shows that the dead can speak to us - about their lives, and ours - through the remarkable insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the study of skeletal remains. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 line illus., 32 halftones. BIC Classification: HD; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691092843
- ISBN
- 9780691092843
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€ 46.99€ 33.92
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Paperback. The formulation, analysis, and re-evaluation of mathematical models in population biology has become a valuable source of insight to mathematicians and biologists alike. This book presents an overview and selected sample of these results and ideas, organized by biological theme rather than mathematical concept. Series: Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Biology. Num Pages: 568 pages, 28 line illus. BIC Classification: JHBD; PBWH; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 784.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691092911
- ISBN
- 9780691092911
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€ 112.96€ 86.10
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Paperback. Shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city of Athens could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. This book shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHMC; JKVP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691094892
- ISBN
- 9780691094892
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€ 54.99€ 39.95
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Paperback. Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown 'globalization' the concept? This book presents a work of vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post-Cold War, post-September 11 world. It analyses just how complex these profound global changes have become. Num Pages: 456 pages, 4 line illus. 16 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095240
- ISBN
- 9780691095240
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€ 65.40€ 51.34
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Paperback. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHM; KNDP; RNC; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095578
- ISBN
- 9780691095578
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. This book shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 maps. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFC; JHM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 266 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095912
- ISBN
- 9780691095912
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Condition: New
€ 59.45€ 46.96
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Paperback. Traces the growth of a middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 maps. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKN; GTF; JFC; JFSC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095936
- ISBN
- 9780691095936
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Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 42.58
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Paperback. Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, this work argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 tables. BIC Classification: JH; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691102542
- ISBN
- 9780691102542
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€ 50.99€ 36.55
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Paperback. Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, this book analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. It demonstrates how brain scans contribute to our social dependence on scientific authority. Editor(s): Rabinow, Paul. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 color illus. 19 halftones. 5 table. BIC Classification: JHM; JMM; MMPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113982
- ISBN
- 9780691113982
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
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Paperback. How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? This book analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 254 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114040
- ISBN
- 9780691114040
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. This title analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity. It also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115634
- ISBN
- 9780691115634
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.30
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Paperback. The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. This volume assembles a set of conceptual tools - "modern equipment" - to assess how intellectual work is conducted and how it might change. It offers a discussion of how one might best think about anthropos. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHBC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 8. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115665
- ISBN
- 9780691115665
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
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Paperback. Offers a contribution to theoretical debates about political - religious and nationalist - violence. This book brings together two perspectives on political violence - identification and purification. It combines these insights with a focus on urban youth culture, in which masculinity, physicality, and the performance of violence are key values. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFFE; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117096
- ISBN
- 9780691117096
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Offers an anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. This book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture. It offers an understanding of the problematic role that law plays in Americans' relations with the objects they consume. It shows that American law sets out injury as an exceptional state. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 halftones. 7 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMC; LAQ; LNTJ; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119083
- ISBN
- 9780691119083
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Hardback. Offers an analysis and interpretation of the Court's historical understanding of religion, explaining the revolutionary change that occurred in the 1940s. This book examines how a strict separation of church and state was sustained through the opinions of Jefferson and Madison, even though their views were those of the minority. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JHM; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119236
- ISBN
- 9780691119236
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Condition: New
€ 77.29€ 60.10
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Paperback. Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps" - places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftones. 20 tables. 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVWA; 1DVWY; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121994
- ISBN
- 9780691121994
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
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Hardback. Explores the issue of same-sex marriage through a range of biblical, historical, liturgical, and theological evidence. From David's love for Jonathan through the singleness of Jesus and Paul to the all-male heaven of John's Apocalypse, this title addresses pertinent passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Editor(s): Jordan, Mark D. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCX6; HRJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123462
- ISBN
- 9780691123462
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Condition: New
€ 71.34€ 55.72
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Paperback. Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126012
- ISBN
- 9780691126012
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
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Hardback. Activists argue about how to define marriage, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. This title argues that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. It explains the assumptions hidden in widely held positions and common practices. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126678
- ISBN
- 9780691126678
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
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