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Sociology & anthropology

Paperback. In celebration of the Peabody's 150th anniversary year, a gorgeously illustrated tour of the museum's renowned scientific collections Num Pages: 136 pages, 48 b/w + 146 color illus. BIC Classification: JHM; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 281 x 12. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933789057
ISBN
9781933789057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.92

Written by experts in psychology and related disciplines, this volume will use both real-world case studies and theoretical perspectives from a variety of disciplines to address the multitude of factors that may lead to the deadly breakdown of ethnic relations. . Editor(s): Esses, Victoria M.; Vernon, Richard A. Series: Social Issues and Interventions. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405170598
ISBN
9781405170598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.32

Paperback. Ideas, Dan Sperber argues, may be contagious. They may invade whole populations. In the process, the people, their environment, and the ideas themselves are being transformed. To explain culture is to describe the causes and the effects of this contagion of ideas. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JMH; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200451
ISBN
9780631200451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.25

Paperback. What exactly is culture? This volume suggests that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific paradigm for the field. It approaches culture from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, through studies grounded in fieldwork, surveys, demography, and other empirical data. Editor(s): Brown, Melissa J. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987897
ISBN
9780295987897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JHB; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739116388
ISBN
9780739116388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.67

Hardback. Experiments in Holism : Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropologypresents a series of essays from leading anthropologists that critically reexamine the relevance of holism as a foundational tenet of anthropology, and its theoretical and methodological potential in today's world. Editor(s): Otto, Ton; Bubandt, Nils. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 179 x 23. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444333237
ISBN
9781444333237
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.33

Paperback. Editor(s): Pasqualino, Caterina; Schneider, Arnd. Num Pages: 224 pages, 61 bw illus. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 172 x 244 x 9. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857854438
ISBN
9780857854438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.29

Paperback. Suitable for visual anthropologists, as well as film scholars interested in experimental and documentary practices, this book focuses on both the avant-garde and visual anthropology. It provides an analyses of more than thirty-five films and videos from the 1890s to the 1990s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 56 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 708.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323198
ISBN
9780822323198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. Through the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects personal, family and work relationships. It draws on the experinces of black and white, heterosexual and gay, women and men with or without symtoms who show how they work through everyday life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JHBK; JHBL; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231101202
ISBN
9780231101202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.98
€ 90.75

Paperback. Experience Research Social Change has long been a comprehensive and accessible resource for learning social research oriented toward social change. The third edition has been thoroughly revised and reorganized. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 190 x 25. Weight in Grams: 700.
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442636040
ISBN
9781442636040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 44.54

Hardcover. Narrates author's experience of becoming a parent as part of a lesbian couple - from meeting her partner and the questions they ask about their readiness to become parents, to the practical considerations of choosing a sperm donor. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 4862 x 3895 x 585. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804010795
ISBN
9780804010795
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Paperback. Attempting to define the exotic, this text focuses on the shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic "others" and the practice of anthropology, seeking to cast light on gender, race and the public sphere in America's history. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 462 pages, 20 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226472645
ISBN
9780226472645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. Barbara Fuchs examines the paradoxes in the construction of Spain in relation to its Moorish heritage through an analysis of Spanish literature, costume, language, architecture, and chivalric practices from 1492 to 1609. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFC; JFSR2; JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221732
ISBN
9780812221732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. * The latest work of Arthur Kroker, internationally renowned theorist, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, and the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) at the University of Victoria. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780745671628
ISBN
9780745671628
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.24

Hardback. .
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498520195
ISBN
9781498520195
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.70
€ 17.22

Paperback. In 1980, the author's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills. In this book, she examines the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 colour plate, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; JFSC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332. Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago. 240 pages, 1 colour plate, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing. In 1980, the author's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills. In this book, she examines the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; JFSC; JHBK. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226871806
ISBN
9780226871806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 414 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JHMP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
Clear Light Publishers United States
Number of pages
427
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940666504
ISBN
9780940666504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.86

Hardback. Series: Studies in Transgression. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSG; JHB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231176422
ISBN
9780231176422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. This exploration of museums as sites for representing and defining national identity encourages us to reconsider the idea of the multicultural nation. Num Pages: 472 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GM; HBTB; JFSL4; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774831635
ISBN
9780774831635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64

Paperback. Editor(s): Dukes, Lucy. Num Pages: 83 pages. BIC Classification: JHBS; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 232 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634635011
ISBN
9781634635011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.00
€ 95.53

Paperback. Focused on marital immigration from China to Taiwan, the book documents the struggles of these women and men as they seek acceptance and recognition in their new home. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 b/w, 2 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; HBTB; JFFN; JHBK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286238
ISBN
9780520286238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. A guide to debate and action. It charts the past and present of international migration and makes practical recommendations that allow everyone to benefit from its unstoppable future growth. It also allows individuals to escape destitution, human rights abuses, and repressive regimes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 37 line illus. 14 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFN; JHBD; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156316
ISBN
9780691156316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, that is our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasising the close interdependence of mind and matter, this title focuses individuals with studies of different cultural contexts and processes in the evolutionary and historical past. Editor(s): Johannsen, Niels N.; Kahler Holst, Mads; Jensen, Helle Juel. Num Pages: 200 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 173 x 24. Weight in Grams: 864.
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9788779342170
ISBN
9788779342170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Expanded
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226360898
ISBN
9780226360898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.41

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