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Paperback. In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order. Hamera s novel and innovative approach challenges the taboo on clear thinking around the subject of incest. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745624167
ISBN
9780745624167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.38

Hardback. In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order. Hamera s novel and innovative approach challenges the taboo on clear thinking around the subject of incest. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745624150
ISBN
9780745624150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804789677
ISBN
9780804789677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.40

Hardback. Marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England. This title shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans - in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 line art. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JHBT; JHMC; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 148 x 32. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035898
ISBN
9780674035898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.92

hardcover. Is inbreeding harmful? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the consequences? This book reexamines these questions. Editor(s): Wolf, Arthur P.; Durham, William. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 tables, 8 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804745963
ISBN
9780804745963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.22

Paperback. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424. The Paradox of Keeping-while-giving. 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight: 414.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520076044
ISBN
9780520076044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.52

Hardback. Combining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand narratives, this title brings a human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141369
ISBN
9780231141369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.33
€ 76.68

Paperback. Examining the ways in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by groups in Argentina, this book explores the relationship between ideas of human rights, rights of citizenship, and the concrete and envisioned social relationships that form the basis for social activism in the wake of neoliberal restructuring. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JHMC; JPFK; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804782265
ISBN
9780804782265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBD; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 263. An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
University Press of New England Hanover
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KRS0018329
ISBN
9780874517699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. This compelling historical ethnography explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, and now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBXM; HBJF1; HBLW3; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804756273
ISBN
9780804756273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.45

Hardback. This compelling historical ethnography explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, and now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBXM; HBJF1; HBLW3; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756266
ISBN
9780804756266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.94

Paperback. At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. This book draws upon Nivkh interviews, archives, and translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JFSF; JHMP; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691044323
ISBN
9780691044323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.67
€ 42.46

Paperback. Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations. Translator(s): Foss, Paul; Johnston, John; Patton, Paul; Kendall, Stuart. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350385
ISBN
9781584350385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.76

Paperback. Suggests that understanding the impact of the illness lies not in identifying deficiencies, but in appreciating how family members carry on with their lives in the face of the disease's intrusion. This book focuses on the lives of those who live in the shadow of chronic illness: the parents and well siblings of children who have cystic fibrosis. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB; JM; VFJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691050799
ISBN
9780691050799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 33.75

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFC; JHM; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Monthly Review Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853459972
ISBN
9780853459972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.59

Paperback. An ethnography that focuses on Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Num Pages: 368 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFK; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000510
ISBN
9780691000510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.25

Paperback. A theoretical account of how spirit mediums mediate the Thai experience of capitalist modernity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMT; HRQM2; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325178
ISBN
9780822325178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBTD; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845888305
ISBN
9781845888305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.51

Paperback. A portrait of love and the passion it inspires. The author's journey through the landscape of love is an account of this most powerful of human forces and its effect on one woman's life. Series: Tauris Parke Paperback S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ; JHBK; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. An excellent, clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Tauris Parke Paperbacks London
Edition
New
Number of pages
208
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KRS0019058
ISBN
9781860645891
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. A portrait of love and the passion it inspires. The author's journey through the landscape of love is an account of this most powerful of human forces and its effect on one woman's life. Series: Tauris Parke Paperback S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ; JHBK; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Tauris Parke Paperbacks London
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New
SKU
KRS0019057
ISBN
9781860645891
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. Anthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining the question through the lenses of biotechnology, the environment, and human rights. Editor(s): Feldman, Ilana; Ticktin, Miriam Iris. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348214
ISBN
9780822348214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 21, 19 black & white halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478789
ISBN
9780801478789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20. BIC Classification: GTF; JH; JPA; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482908
ISBN
9780801482908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.91

paperback. Editor(s): Nowell, April. Series: International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological S. Num Pages: 200 pages, 31 b/w illus, 1 table. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMP; JMR; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Berghahn Books United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781879621305
ISBN
9781879621305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.32

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