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Sociology & anthropology
The Search for Fundamentals. The Process of Modernisation and the Ques...
. Ed(S): Tijssen, Lieteke Van Vucht,; Berting...
Hardback. Uses comparative examples to analyze the sources and consequences of several cultural movements. This book also offers theoretical reflections on the difficulties individuals experience and on the message they carry for students of modernity. It is useful for a readership of scholars and advanced students in the social sciences and humanities. Editor(s): Tijssen, Lieteke van Vucht,; Berting, Jan; Lechner, Frank. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792335429
- ISBN
- 9780792335429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.04
€ 128.04
Paperback. This book explores how Arab workers (mainly women) and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work. It examines the tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial life, as well as the complications created by Arab-Jewish political and military conflict. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804737876
- ISBN
- 9780804737876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.99
€ 37.99
€ 33.99
Hardback. This book explores how Arab workers (mainly women) and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work. It examines the tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial life, as well as the complications created by Arab-Jewish political and military conflict. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHBA; JHMC; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737852
- ISBN
- 9780804737852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.30
€ 157.30
Paperback. Defining the demands and expectations that parents place upon their offspring from the very beginning, this book explains how even the youngest can adapt to a role that is expected of them. It demonstrates how parents can transfer problems from their own childhood into this new relationship. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHBK; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780765701367
- ISBN
- 9780765701367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.40
€ 72.40
Hardback. All memories invoke imagined pasts, but do the ways we remember share a common imaginary? In seeking to interpret Scottish culture in the recent past as a series of encounters with modernity, this study draws on a wide range of sources to explore relationships between perceptions of place, belonging and identity in one nation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617869
- ISBN
- 9780748617869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.67€ 101.60
€ 106.67
€ 101.60
Paperback. Blaikie explores how our different ways of seeing influence the relationship between place and belonging. He argues that our memories, however brief or complex, invoke imagined pasts. But do our recollections share a common frame of reference? Blaikie's cross-disciplinary exploration sets out to answer this question. Includes numerous case studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 b+w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 186 x 232 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617876
- ISBN
- 9780748617876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.60
€ 38.99
€ 32.60
Hardcover. Bringing some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists into discussion around the work of Maurice Godelier, this volume explores and revisits some of the most complex practices and structures social scientists have had to elucidate. Editor(s): Dousset, Laurent; Tcherkezoff, Serge. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 276 pages, 10 ills. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552. Maurice Godelier's Work in Context. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. 276 pages, 10 ills. Editor(s): Dousset, Laurent; Tcherkezoff, Serge. Bringing some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists into discussion around the work of Maurice Godelier, this volume explores and revisits some of the most complex practices and structures social scientists have had to elucidate. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 21. Weight: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857453310
- ISBN
- 9780857453310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.46
€ 152.46
Hardback. Presents an abstract discussion of social science, in a period when science in all forms is under attack, does little to inform the debate on its role and progress. This book undertakes the novel approach of reviewing the journal literature on six different topics by each of the five social sciences. Num Pages: 464 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402073212
- ISBN
- 9781402073212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.43
€ 131.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; JMH; JPA; KC; PSXE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 679.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441953285
- ISBN
- 9781441953285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.14
€ 124.14
paperback. Editor(s): Boulloche, Andre. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1976
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349030729
- ISBN
- 9781349030729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Paperback. Brings together the findings on the causes and consequences of human happiness and well-being. This book covers a variety of disciplines, encompassing evolutionary biology, positive psychology, economics and social science, neuroscience, and peace studies. Editor(s): Huppert, Felicia A.; Baylis, Nick; Keverne, Barry. Num Pages: 560 pages, 2 pages colour plates, numerous black & white photographs and line illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JMH; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 33. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 562
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198567523
- ISBN
- 9780198567523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 145.74
€ 145.74
Paperback. How can economics become genuinely quantitative? This is the question that French sociologist Gabriel Tarde tackled at the end of his career. This title offers an introduction to the work of that forgotten genius of nineteenth-century social thought. Num Pages: 87 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; KCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 115 x 178 x 6. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
- Number of pages
- 87
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979405778
- ISBN
- 9780979405778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.66
€ 13.99
€ 12.66
hardcover. In The Science of Human Diversity, Richard Lynn gives an account of the research sponsored by the Pioneer Fund of New York. The Fund was established in 1937 by the textile millionaire Wickliffe Draper to support research in genetics, heredity and eugenics. Num Pages: 648 pages, ports. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 39. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761820406
- ISBN
- 9780761820406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.48
€ 167.48
Paperback. Leslie White was one of the most important-and controversial-figures in American anthropology. This classic work, initially published in 1949, contains White's definitive statement on what he termed 'culturology.' Series: Ewp Foundations of Anthropology. Num Pages: 502 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 137 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Percheron Press United States
- Number of pages
- 502
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780975273821
- ISBN
- 9780975273821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.17
€ 61.17
Paperback. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 289 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JHBL; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349504282
- ISBN
- 9781349504282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.02
€ 64.02
Hardback. Uncovering the seminal theoretical work of Du Bois in developing a scientific" sociology through a variety of methodologies, this book examines how the leading scholars of the day disparaged and ignored his work. It exposes the economic and political factors that marginalized the contributions of Du Bois. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276352
- ISBN
- 9780520276352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
€ 40.99
€ 29.04
Paperback. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, the author uncovers the seminal theoretical work of Du Bois in developing a "scientific" sociology through a variety of methodologies and examines how the leading scholars of the day disparaged and ignored Du Bois' work. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 gathered plates, 3 scattered b/w figs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286764
- ISBN
- 9780520286764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Hardback. In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509516049
- ISBN
- 9781509516049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 51.49
€ 52.99
€ 51.49
Paperback. In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509516056
- ISBN
- 9781509516056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.04
€ 19.04
Paperback. Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In this book, the author offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFFN; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226072388
- ISBN
- 9780226072388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.84
€ 34.99
€ 27.84
Paperback. Ethnographic studies trace the background to and impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period. Editor(s): Jesch, Judith. Series: Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology. Num Pages: 382 pages, 2, 2 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3F; HBJD; HBLC1; HDDM; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 382
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843837282
- ISBN
- 9781843837282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.84
€ 38.99
€ 32.84
Paperback. Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life. Num Pages: 258 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226772240
- ISBN
- 9780226772240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.76
€ 32.99
€ 25.76
The Scale of Interest Organization in Democratic Politics. Data and Re...
. Ed(S): Halpin, D.; Jordan, G.
Paperback. Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involvingpolitically relevant groups. Distinguished contributors report on data from around the world and at different levels of political decision making from 'below the radar' in local communities to global negations at the World Trade Organization." Editor(s): Halpin, D.; Jordan, G. Series: Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329618
- ISBN
- 9781349329618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardback. Explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This book aims to show that both versions are convenient fictions, with instrumental rather than ontological significance - they are not about truth but about power. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237306
- ISBN
- 9780812237306
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.27
€ 87.27