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Paperback. Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services. Series Editor(s): Stein, Mike. Series: Quality Matters in Children's Services. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB1; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843105954
- ISBN
- 9781843105954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.37
€ 44.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 15 color + 59 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219470
- ISBN
- 9780300219470
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.20
€ 36.99
€ 27.20
Paperback. Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to migration in the period dating from 1. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HD; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119251552
- ISBN
- 9781119251552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.18
€ 52.18
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781506306865
- ISBN
- 9781506306865
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Condition: New
€ 56.08
€ 56.08
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€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
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€ 29.43
€ 32.99
€ 29.43
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€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
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
€ 55.98
€ 55.98
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
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
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€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
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€ 27.19
€ 29.99
€ 27.19
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€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Provides students with an introduction to the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, using extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. Editor(s): Tanner, Jeremy. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415308830
- ISBN
- 9780415308830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.75
€ 70.75
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754667827
- ISBN
- 9780754667827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.79
€ 171.79
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€ 30.58
€ 35.99
€ 30.58
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
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
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.76
€ 40.99
€ 31.76
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€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
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
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.61
€ 35.99
€ 32.61
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
€ 68.33€ 53.34
€ 68.33
€ 53.34
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79