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Paperback. This is the second volume of the author's magnum opus, which offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution. Translator(s): Barrett, Rhodes. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804771603
- ISBN
- 9780804771603
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
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Paperback. Offers a rare window into one of life's most intimate and significant sexual moments Num Pages: 295 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK5; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814716533
- ISBN
- 9780814716533
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. Explains how the leaders China decided to limit all couples to one child. This book focuses on the historic period 1978-80 and documents the manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. Num Pages: 426 pages, 17 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBD; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 426
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253391
- ISBN
- 9780520253391
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Paperback. The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive and empirically-grounded account of what we know about the growing numbers of people who are non-religious. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRQ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199924943
- ISBN
- 9780199924943
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Condition: New
€ 53.55
€ 53.55
Paperback. In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH; HBTB; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362272
- ISBN
- 9780822362272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
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Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 maps, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HREX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147699
- ISBN
- 9780231147699
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.59
€ 46.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 203 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 203
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814751343
- ISBN
- 9780814751343
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.40
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Paperback. Offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari', inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 321 pages, 17 black and white, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520289147
- ISBN
- 9780520289147
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. Presents a critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty". In this title, the author provides a portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 5 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 367
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition, with a New Pref ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276048
- ISBN
- 9780520276048
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754667827
- ISBN
- 9780754667827
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Condition: New
€ 173.30
€ 173.30
Paperback. Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before "globalization" became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674281332
- ISBN
- 9780674281332
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.66
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Paperback. Num Pages: 50 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 278 x 2. Weight in Grams: 180. Exercise Answers and Tables. 50 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ; JHBK. Dimension: 213 x 278 x 2. Weight: 180.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 50
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231135306
- ISBN
- 9780231135306
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.43
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€ 20.43
Paperback. Editor(s): Foyster, Elizabeth; Marten, James. Series: The Cultural Histories Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 40 bw illus. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HBLH; HBTB; JFSP1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 241 x 13. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472554703
- ISBN
- 9781472554703
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.04
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Paperback. This volume seeks to go far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, is a reaffirmation for understanding difference. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: BG; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226733692
- ISBN
- 9780226733692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.58
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€ 31.58
Paperback. A study that upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. It presents an account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, and shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256866
- ISBN
- 9780520256866
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Paperback. Editor(s): Faubion, James D.; Marcus, George E. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475115
- ISBN
- 9780801475115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.80
€ 35.99
€ 32.80
Hardback. The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent centuries been so bloody? The author demonstrates that the aim of decreasing and deterring violence has gone hand in hand with the misleading idea that violence is abnormal and beyond comprehension. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142968
- ISBN
- 9780691142968
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Condition: New
€ 68.37€ 53.22
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Paperback. Engles' was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of history and science in many communist countries; he was also the first Marxist historian, anthropologist, philosopher, and commentator on early Marx. This introductory book explores the importance of Engels's thought and work. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JHBA; JPA; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 111 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192804662
- ISBN
- 9780192804662
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
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Paperback. Editor(s): Buchanan, Dana. Translator(s): Hamilton, Roland. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 maps, 10 figures. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292755598
- ISBN
- 9780292755598
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Condition: New
€ 33.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic D at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JHM; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509503988
- ISBN
- 9781509503988
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Condition: New
€ 21.30
€ 21.30
Paperback. For every group that is oppressed, one or more other groups are privileged in relation to it. This book argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has been given insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change and as a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 51115th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848130296
- ISBN
- 9781848130296
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
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Paperback. Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of colour lexicons. Series: Hume S. Num Pages: 200 pages, notes, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575861623
- ISBN
- 9781575861623
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.34
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Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Harrington Park Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939594099
- ISBN
- 9781939594099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
€ 46.99
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Paperback. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging global health approaches to animal-borne illness, this title tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change, and economic upheaval. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 10 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282629
- ISBN
- 9780520282629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
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