Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to agonizing rituals of cruelty demonstrated at systemic, transnational, religious, familial, and even sexual spheres of human relations. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JFF; JHB; JHBA; JHM; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349483754
- ISBN
- 9781349483754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Paperback. Who are the real parents of a child? What are the relationships and responsibilities between a child, the woman who carried it to term, and the egg donor? This book charts the response of the law to modern reproductive technology as it transforms our image of the family and is itself transformed by the tide of social forces. Num Pages: 287 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; LNDA; LNM; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814719176
- ISBN
- 9780814719176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.43
€ 33.99
€ 33.43
Hardback. Editor(s): Dakers, John R. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; JN; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 591.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403970374
- ISBN
- 9781403970374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
paperback. Never before have we so needed a new literacy that will enable us to meaningfully participate in the rapidly evolving technologically mediated world. This collection offers a solid basis for defining this new technological literacy by bringing together theoretical work that ranges from philosophy, design, and pedagogy. Editor(s): Dakers, John R. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHB; JNKC; YQT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349532063
- ISBN
- 9781349532063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. Covers the history of the USA's role in the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the challenge by the President of the American Political Science Association in 2000, who urged scholars to discover how "well-structured institutions could enable the world to have a new birth of freedom". Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JPRB; LBBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025519
- ISBN
- 9780268025519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
hardcover. Alienated and violent children and adolescents, desperate and exhausted parents: the destructive effects of unchecked defiant behaviour are obvious. This book examines defiance as an expression of the child's worry for a malfunctioning family and trace a symbolic experiential approach. Num Pages: 236 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMC; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583910047
- ISBN
- 9781583910047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.83
€ 159.83
Paperback. Editor(s): Perkins, James. Num Pages: 122 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594540745
- ISBN
- 9781594540745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.37
€ 52.99
€ 37.37
Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1DVUG; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801473302
- ISBN
- 9780801473302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.55
€ 37.99
€ 35.55
Paperback. "Defacement" asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732000
- ISBN
- 9780804732000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.64
€ 37.99
€ 35.64
Hardback. Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731997
- ISBN
- 9780804731997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.20
€ 158.20
Paperback. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Series: Life Passages S. Num Pages: 393 pages, 6 figures, 7 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520. Re-Inventing Rites of Passage. Series: Life Passages S. 393 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 6 line illustrations. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight: 552.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 393
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236752
- ISBN
- 9780520236752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.94
€ 40.99
€ 28.94
Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816632909
- ISBN
- 9780816632909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.95
€ 27.99
€ 26.95
Paperback. A groundbreaking look into the connections between music, dance, emotion, and trance Num Pages: 210 pages, 17 b&w photos, 26 figures, 8 color photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AVA; JHMC; JMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216724
- ISBN
- 9780253216724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSP; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348879
- ISBN
- 9781349348879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.39
€ 61.39
Paperback. Looks into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces. This book explores the role of travel in contemporary lives, from university travel-abroad programs to package tours and family vacations. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759107243
- ISBN
- 9780759107243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.16
€ 53.16
Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites
Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel; Barba, Rebeca; Ege...
paperback. Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; RBG; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 877.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400786776
- ISBN
- 9789400786776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.13
€ 65.13
Paperback. Colin Graham examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of 'Ireland', produced more often as a citation than an actuality. He intervenes with authority and originality in controversial area, where cultural theory and analysis run alongside the daily challenge of political events. Series: Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004761
- ISBN
- 9780748609765
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Colin Graham examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of 'Ireland', produced more often as a citation than an actuality. He intervenes with authority and originality in controversial area, where cultural theory and analysis run alongside the daily challenge of political events. Series: Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0003416
- ISBN
- 9780748609765
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Series: Postcolonial Studies. Num Pages: 204 pages, 16 color. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837613483
- ISBN
- 9783837613483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.81
€ 38.99
€ 27.81
Hardback. Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC; UYD; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 178
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319219530
- ISBN
- 9783319219530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51