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Paperback. Considers how a culture of crisis management - what the author calls "the new chronic" - has come to dominate various aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. This title unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 charts. BIC Classification: JHBZ; MBP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352280
- ISBN
- 9780822352280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 9th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781598889185
- ISBN
- 9781598889185
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Condition: New
€ 77.24€ 13.40
€ 77.24
€ 13.40
Paperback. Reveals how Peru s early-twentieth-century labor reforms excluded the majority of the country s laborers. They were indigenous, and the nation s elites saw indigeneity as incommensurable with work, modernity, and industrial progress. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HB; JHBL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350132
- ISBN
- 9780822350132
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.50
€ 31.99
€ 28.50
Hardcover. This study provides ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial practices in a set of international corporate investment projects. Drawing also on historical and statistical data, it renders a comprehensive perspective on management, corporations, and capitalism in the late modern globalized economy. Num Pages: 284 pages, 15 tables & figures. BIC Classification: JHM; KCX; KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451859
- ISBN
- 9780857451859
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Condition: New
€ 155.40
€ 155.40
Paperback. This book examines the experiences of older people who remain at home with care. It discusses life changes faced by family members who take on a greater care-giving role, and suggests that this constitutes a new stage of life, an Age of Supported Independence. Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB; JHBK; JHM; JKSN; MJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400791343
- ISBN
- 9789400791343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.23
€ 124.23
Hardback. Series: Studies in Sensory History. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JHMC; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040672
- ISBN
- 9780252040672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.43
€ 118.43
Paperback. Series: Studies in Sensory History. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JHMC; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252082184
- ISBN
- 9780252082184
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Offers a fresh theory of family dynamics to account for the interesting and startling changes in marriage and family composition in the United States. This title presents an argument that revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960 which is experienced by young adults after they leave their parents' homes. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 line illustrations; 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674034907
- ISBN
- 9780674034907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.66
€ 36.99
€ 30.66
Hardcover. A unique, accessible and enlightening analysis of the massive effects of the global demographic rollercoaster and what it will mean for the world economy, ageing societies, baby-boomers and their families and jobs, investments and business, and the economic power map of the world. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470822913
- ISBN
- 9780470822913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.56
€ 36.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. In this ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb focusses on the Beng people of West Africa. A Beng infant is thought to begin life filled with spiritual knowledge, having been reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Num Pages: 392 pages, 53 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305028
- ISBN
- 9780226305028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.73
€ 40.99
€ 31.73
Hardback. Since 1943, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture that presents very few barriers of anti-semitism. This book explores the questions that such inclusion raises for Danish Jews and what their answers can tell us about the meaning of religion, ethnicity and community in modern society. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 282 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJP; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239459
- ISBN
- 9780312239459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.98
€ 64.98
Paperback. Confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against the author's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. Rendering a critique of some postmodern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations, this title contains engagements with views expressed by Mary Lefkowitz, Paul Gilroy, and Cornel West. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JFSL3; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566395953
- ISBN
- 9781566395953
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.61
€ 31.99
€ 30.61
Hardback. This history of the Afrikaner peoples begins with their arrival in Southern Africa in 1652 and leads up to the present day. The account covers the establishment of the Dutch East India trading post in the Cape, the Great Trek of the 1830s and the democratic elections of 1994. Series: Peoples of Africa S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3J; HBJH; HBTB; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631182047
- ISBN
- 9780631182047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.47
€ 88.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 505 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- LIT Verlag
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783825830878
- ISBN
- 9783825830878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.72
€ 30.99
€ 25.72
Hardback. In the 1960s and 70s Afghanistan was depicted in the media as the romantic haven of nomads and a resort for hashish--smoking hippies; in the 80s it was seen as a country where brave warriors fought against the a evila Soviet empire, and in the 90s redrawn as a semi--feudal land ruled by warlords and Islamic fundamentalists. Series: Peoples of Asia. Num Pages: 408 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631198413
- ISBN
- 9780631198413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.10
€ 100.10
Paperback. In this 1968 volume the authors report on the voting and the political attitudes of a sample of highly-paid manual workers. Series: Cambridge Studies in Sociology. Num Pages: 104 pages, 44tabs. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 7. Weight in Grams: 188. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear, some edge wear and light sunning to cover and spine, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0013855
- ISBN
- 9780521095266
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Linking cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores the role of affect in the theorization of the social. Editor(s): Clough, Patricia Ticineto; Halley, Jean. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 40. Weight in Grams: 474. Theorizing the Social. 328 pages. Editor(s): Clough, Patricia Ticineto. Linking cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores the role of affect in the theorization of the social. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 40. Weight: 474.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339250
- ISBN
- 9780822339250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.70
€ 31.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. This collection of essays analyzes the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflects on its recuperation in the field. Editor(s): Berube, Michael. Num Pages: 216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 169 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631223061
- ISBN
- 9780631223061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.55
€ 47.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Goggin, Joyce; Leyda, Julia; Negra, Diane. Num Pages: 310 pages, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 272 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138998766
- ISBN
- 9781138998766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.78
€ 49.78
paperback. Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (Mono). Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9781119017868
- ISBN
- 9781119017868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.08
€ 46.99
€ 46.08