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Paperback. This study attempts to cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore and history in order to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia. Editor(s): Appadurai, Arjun; etc.; Korom, Frank J. (Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, USA); Mills, Margaret A. (Associate Professor of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, USA). Series: South Asia Seminar. Num Pages: 464 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FM; JFHF; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 227 x 31. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812213379
ISBN
9780812213379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.86

Paperback. In linking forms of cultural expression to labour, occupational injuries and deaths, this title centres what is usualyy decentred - the complex culture of working class people. Num Pages: 240 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSC; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813534350
ISBN
9780813534350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.46

paperback. A son's search for his father and the father's search, 50 years earlier, for the mysterious Sierra Madre Apaches. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BJ; HBTB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780803271029
ISBN
9780803271029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.77

paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFS; JHM; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816630219
ISBN
9780816630219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Paperback. The values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra to show how a premodern clerical elite has embraced modernity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRH; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226056777
ISBN
9780226056777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.60

Paperback. Series Editor(s): Harrell, Stevan. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 176 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 2 recorded music items, 3 maps, 19 b&w illus., 3 maps, 2. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HBJF; HREX; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 267 x 14. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295999487
ISBN
9780295999487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

paperback. Editor(s): Spigel, Lynn; Mann, Denise. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60ill. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816620531
ISBN
9780816620531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.51

paperback. Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JPWD; RNB; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816621750
ISBN
9780816621750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. Editor(s): Gray, Herman; Gomez-Barris, Macarena. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816655984
ISBN
9780816655984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.59

hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804778664
ISBN
9780804778664
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.57

paperback. Presents stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any stage of life, and that healing, itself, occurs in stages. This book offers guidance to recognize the long-lingering potential affects of childhood sexual abuse including depression, anxiety, dissociation, and chronic shock. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780313363214
ISBN
9780313363214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.74

hardcover. This volume seeks to go beyond single-country area studies to draw together analyses of how globalization and neoliberalism are affecting youth and, as a result, their identities and their futures, in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Editor(s): Anagnost, Ann; Arai, Andrea; Ren, Hai. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776172
ISBN
9780804776172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.84

hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804790611
ISBN
9780804790611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.33

hardcover. Studies research in urban sociology. This work presents an analysis of race and ethnicity in urban areas. Editor(s): Gotham, Kevin Fox; Hutchison, Ray. Series: Research in Urban Sociology. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSG; JFSL1; JHBC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 824.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762305414
ISBN
9780762305414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.59

hardcover. This volume offers sophisticated sociological analyses of job training that go well beyond standard accounts of general versus specific skills and overly simple assumptions about employer and worker behaviour. Editor(s): Bills, David B. Series: Research in the Sociology of Work. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762308866
ISBN
9780762308866
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.21

hardcover. Examining politics in a small Afghan town that managed to remain relatively peaceful in the years following the fall of the Taliban, this book calls examines how and when violence erupts and calls into question the international community's approach to developing stability in Afghanistan. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776714
ISBN
9780804776714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.71

hardcover. A comparative study of a white supremacist organization and a white antiracist organization to understand the underlying similarities of how groups make-meaning of race and whiteness. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 1120. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776943
ISBN
9780804776943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.71

hardcover. This book explores how the arrival of Latin American immigrants in the United States shifts racial classifications for newcomers, for the society receiving them, and for the people they leave behind. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777957
ISBN
9780804777957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.71

hardcover. The Black-Jewish conflict in the US, without effective strategies for intervention, can only be expected to worsen. This volume suggests a psychoanalytic approach to addressing and resolving the issues causing the conflict, such as feelings of powerlessness and economic marginalization. Editor(s): Helmreich, Alan; Marcus, Paul R. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JFSR1; JHMP; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780275956660
ISBN
9780275956660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.59

Paperback. Reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are pre-eminent Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992235
ISBN
9780295992235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.91

hardcover. Reflecting the cultural diversity in critical theory, Current perspectives in social theory presents work from a variety of theoretical traditions demonstrating the problems of sociological theorizing. Volume 21 echoes a current trend by publishing articles that reconsider Marx, Althusser and Gramsci. Editor(s): Lehmann, Jennifer M. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 647.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780762307623
ISBN
9780762307623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.99

hardcover. Explores the arguments for and against a view of the world in which multiple, distinct and conflicting societies differ both over time and contemporaneously. Editor(s): Lehmann, Jennifer M. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762309634
ISBN
9780762309634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.72

Hardback. Series: South Asia in Motion. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTF; JFSG; JHMC; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804798228
ISBN
9780804798228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.43

hardcover. This volume presents five studies on key dimensions of union-management relations. Topics examined include union representation, financial consequences of unionism and wage determination, workplace innovation, and conflict resolution in unionized enterprises in North America. Editor(s): Kaufman, Bruce E.; Lewin, David. Series: Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JNMN; KJW; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762307500
ISBN
9780762307500
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.14

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