Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. The first in-depth ethnography of the brutal regime in Burma. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMB; JHM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218831
- ISBN
- 9780812218831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.80
€ 36.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Why did almost 1000 highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's kamikaze operations at the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? This study of the role of the state in pushing imperial ideology shows the power of symbolic communication. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226620916
- ISBN
- 9780226620916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.11
€ 36.99
€ 29.11
paperback. Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides a detailed account of how local conceptions of imperial cosmopolitanism shaped the city's identity in a newly formed state. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; HBJD; JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780802095633
- ISBN
- 9780802095633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 39.04
€ 42.99
€ 39.04
hardcover. This work is based on ethnographic research in three communities in Kerala, India, which sent large numbers of workers to the Middle East for temporary jobs. It explores the factors responsible for the striking differences in the groups' patterns of migration and migration-induced social change. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFN; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813530895
- ISBN
- 9780813530895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.66
€ 75.66
Paperback. This volume offers an innovative ethnography, which strives to express the lived experience of women's music by turning the postmodern critique into a lyrical and complex expression of social experience. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989660
- ISBN
- 9780761989660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.38
€ 62.38
Hardback. This volume offers an innovative ethnography, which strives to express the lived experience of women's music by turning the postmodern critique into a lyrical and complex expression of social experience. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989653
- ISBN
- 9780761989653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.03
€ 142.03
Paperback. Seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. This book delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; AVGN; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283121
- ISBN
- 9780520283121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
€ 40.99
€ 29.04
Hardcover. How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. This book ranges across cultures and history, tracing the ways that the spirits of youth and age have inflected each other from antiquity to the present. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226171999
- ISBN
- 9780226171999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.63
€ 26.99
€ 21.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226381961
- ISBN
- 9780226381961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.09
€ 19.99
€ 19.09
Paperback. * The world's leading geographer establishes new foundations for the understanding of social life at different times and different places. * Reintroduces concepts of value into postmodern social theory. Num Pages: 480 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPVH; LAB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557866813
- ISBN
- 9781557866813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.61
€ 52.61
Paperback. "In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led to" Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- 50843rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465037032
- ISBN
- 9780465037032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.64
€ 20.64
Paperback. This timely, evocative book showcases Bertha Wilson's contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and explores the issues that this controversial personality grappled with in her life and career. Editor(s): Brooks, Kim. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774817332
- ISBN
- 9780774817332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.17
€ 40.99
€ 40.17
Paperback. Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802074805
- ISBN
- 9780802074805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 41.01
€ 43.99
€ 41.01
hardcover. Num Pages: 202 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPH; JHBC; JPA; PBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442215078
- ISBN
- 9781442215078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.79
€ 149.79
Hardback. The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. This book focuses on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job. Num Pages: 216 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226738055
- ISBN
- 9780226738055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 77.34
€ 94.08
€ 77.34
Paperback. The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. This book focuses on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job. Num Pages: 216 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226738079
- ISBN
- 9780226738079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.52
€ 34.99
€ 27.52
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691166483
- ISBN
- 9780691166483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.90
€ 46.99
€ 32.90
paperback. Series: Routledge Revivals. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415573153
- ISBN
- 9780415573153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.19
€ 65.19
Paperback. Looking at the state of the American economy, this book finds that economic growth has become "delinked" from job creation, and that unemployment and underemployment are a permanent condition of the economy. It traces the historical roots of this state of affairs, and sees a continuum of econcomic austerity that creates a boom for the rich. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JPA; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592131389
- ISBN
- 9781592131389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.09
€ 29.99
€ 27.09