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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. * Explores the development, content, and impact of world culture * Traces world culture back from the mid-19th century to the present day * Includes numerous illustrations of key issues and empirical research * Written in lively, accessible language for the student and general scholar . Num Pages: 280 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226772
- ISBN
- 9780631226772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.15
€ 42.15
Paperback. Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society , a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745642017
- ISBN
- 9780745642017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.14
€ 25.14
Hardback. * This is a remarkable study of the impact on online technologies on professional workers. * Gregg introduces the notion of work's intimacy to describe the way technology exacerbates the expectations of professional jobs as they come to invade spaces and times that were once less susceptible to work's presence. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650272
- ISBN
- 9780745650272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Paperback. * This is a remarkable study of the impact on online technologies on professional workers. * Gregg introduces the notion of work's intimacy to describe the way technology exacerbates the expectations of professional jobs as they come to invade spaces and times that were once less susceptible to work's presence. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650289
- ISBN
- 9780745650289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.57
€ 24.57
paperback. This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlda s leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertza s claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745607597
- ISBN
- 9780745607597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.82
€ 23.99
€ 23.82
hardcover. Drawing on sociology, labor economics, organizational behavior and social history, this title presents papers that examine time in the workplace. It examines issues surrounding the distribution of and struggle over work hours and how these vary across a number of factors including race, class, occupation and other structural components of work. Editor(s): Rubin, Beth. Series: Research in the Sociology of Work. Num Pages: 564 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762312689
- ISBN
- 9780762312689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.24
€ 123.24
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319563329
- ISBN
- 9783319563329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.77€ 58.30
€ 165.77
€ 58.30
Paperback. This text proposes different ways of thinking about work. It explores many of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of work in life - its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other obligations, to the life cycle, to play and to rest. Editor(s): Meilaender, Gilbert C. Series: Ethics of Everyday Life S. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268019624
- ISBN
- 9780268019624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.87
€ 20.99
€ 20.87
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719065903
- ISBN
- 9780719065903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.65€ 63.40
€ 100.65
€ 63.40
Paperback. Analyses the interrelationships between Cordoba's immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labour movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other between the 1890s and the 1960s. Series: The Mexican Experience. Num Pages: 440 pages, 13 photographs, 2 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 0th edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803243712
- ISBN
- 9780803243712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.36
€ 51.99
€ 46.36
Paperback. The very word 'statisticsa is enough to induce panic or cynicism in most peoplea s hearts. The necessity of studying statistics is often regarded by students as a test of endurance rather than an educational opportunity. Working With Statistics is aimed to show such an audience that studying statistics can be both involving and even pleasurable. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745600482
- ISBN
- 9780745600482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.39
€ 23.39
Paperback. Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; GTC; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761957737
- ISBN
- 9780761957737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.61
€ 53.61
Paperback. Targeting working with children and their families in the context of their daily lives, this edition has been expanded and revised to address cross-cultural issues in greater depth, family mentoring and specific teenage issues. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB1; JKSN; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854333308
- ISBN
- 9781854333308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.13
€ 46.13
Paperback. Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. This title examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective action and the commons. Num Pages: 376 pages, 21 line illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 49951st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146041
- ISBN
- 9780691146041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.15
€ 53.29
€ 42.15
paperback. This book examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. It examines the roles played by health professionals within child protection and investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2figs.5tabs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBC; JKSB1; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861342447
- ISBN
- 9781861342447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.67
€ 38.99
€ 37.67
Paperback. This book presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that considers children's own views of employment in favour of adult-constructed arguments about child work. This is a key text for social work practitioners that encourages re-evaluation of the notion of childhood and understands the complex phenomenon of working children. Editor(s): Hungerland, Beatrice; Liebel, Manfred; Milne, Brian; Wihstutz, Anne. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHBL; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843105237
- ISBN
- 9781843105237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.74
€ 44.99
€ 44.74
Paperback. Containing lively portraits of flight attendants, both current and retired, this book shows the intimate, illuminating, funny, and sometimes dangerous behind-the-scenes stories of daily life for the flight attendant. Num Pages: 291 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KNGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794081
- ISBN
- 9780814794081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. A Marxist investigation into the forms of resistance occurring in the UK call centre today Series: Wildcat. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBL; KJS; KNTT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745399065
- ISBN
- 9780745399065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Hardback. This book uncovers how working the night shift at India's transnational call centers affects the lives of women workers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, 4 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769136
- ISBN
- 9780804769136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.21
€ 108.21
Paperback. Explores how beliefs about what constitutes 'women's work' are evolving in response to globalization. This book uncovers how call center employment affects their lives, mainly as it relates to the anxiety that Indian families and Indian society have towards women going out at night, earning a good salary, and being exposed to western culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, 4 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769143
- ISBN
- 9780804769143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29