Sociology & anthropology
Results 9529 - 9552 of 11155
Sociology & anthropology
Hardback. In Community and Tradition, eight distinguished scholars articulate the clearest statement to date of the conservative vision of community. Editor(s): Carey, George W.; Frohnen, Bruce. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JPA; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847686605
- ISBN
- 9780847686605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.83
€ 148.83
Hardcover. Editor(s): Dickinson, Torry D. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 263 x 190 x 23. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590336335
- ISBN
- 9781590336335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.34€ 56.87
€ 73.34
€ 56.87
Paperback. Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. Series Editor(s): Pea, Roy; Brown, John Seely; Heath, Christian. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. Num Pages: 336 pages, 13 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHM; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 478. Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. 336 pages, 13 line drawings. Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM; JM. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight: 448. Series Editor(s) :Pea, Roy; Brown, John Seely; Heath, Christian.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521663632
- ISBN
- 9780521663632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.08
€ 53.08
Paperback. Editor(s): Tanabe, Shigeharu. Num Pages: 270 pages, 1 illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9786162151170
- ISBN
- 9786162151170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.81
€ 33.99
€ 30.81
Hardcover. The authors examine theories and models that help to understand individual and social aspects of processes of learning, development of expertise, knowledge creation, and innovation. These processes are studied both in the contexts of education and work, and are illuminated with numerous examples, and interview data. Editor(s): Hakkarainen, Kai P. J.; Palonen, Tuire; Paavola, Sami; Lehtinen, Erno. Series: Advances in Learning and Instruction S. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780080445410
- ISBN
- 9780080445410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.86
€ 133.86
Hardback. Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 308 pages, 19 ills, 6 figs & tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHB; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458902
- ISBN
- 9780857458902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.57
€ 135.57
Hardback. Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities. Editor(s): Marquis, Chris; Lounsbury, Michael; Greenwood, Royston. Series Editor(s): Lounsbury, Michael. Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Num Pages: 363 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 363
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780522845
- ISBN
- 9781780522845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.20
€ 151.20
Hardcover. Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on full meaning. The experience of communitas, almost beyond strict definition and with almost endless variations, often appears unexpectedly. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339057
- ISBN
- 9780230339057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Paperback. Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on full meaning. The experience of Communitas, almost beyond strict definition and with almost endless variations, often appears unexpectedly. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339088
- ISBN
- 9780230339088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.86
€ 59.86
Hardback. In this provocative and timely reading of Emile Durkheim the author isolates the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories and demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them. Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720427
- ISBN
- 9780804720427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.70
€ 158.70
Paperback. In the final book of her love trilogy that began with "all about love" and "salvation, " bell hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, by the culture of self-help, and by popular media forces such as television and movies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JH; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060938291
- ISBN
- 9780060938291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.45
€ 15.99
€ 11.45
Hardback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739166512
- ISBN
- 9780739166512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.95
€ 136.95
Hardback. Not only a superb case study on how the Netherlands' Turkish community defines itself, this remarkable book's message resonates across the wider European debate currently raging on immigration. Series: Program in Migration and Refugee Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1DVT; GTC; JFC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739102695
- ISBN
- 9780739102695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.52
€ 147.52
Paperback. This book provides a rigorous and challenging review of recent research in the realms of communication and cultural diversity. Focusing on health communication interventions concerning service users who may lack fluency in English, it shows that meeting the needs of all health service users depends on both structures and processes of communication. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JH; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 351.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861343413
- ISBN
- 9781861343413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.65
€ 33.99
€ 32.65
Paperback. Filling in a key chapter in communications history, this title offers an examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. It analyzes the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 456 pages, 25 illustrations, 13 tables, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBTB; JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 47. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339281
- ISBN
- 9780822339281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.81
€ 33.99
€ 30.81
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781412962223
- ISBN
- 9781412962223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 48.92
€ 51.99
€ 48.92
Paperback. Brazilians are gracious, friendly, fun-loving people, which makes their country a very inviting place to visit for pleasure or business. This title presents a portrait of Brazil's history, racial fusion, economy, and contemporary lifestyles. It includes a checklist of the leading Brazilian cultural characteristics. Illustrator(s): Haughey, Donald. Num Pages: 260 pages, 7 b&w illus., 20 line drawings, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292702875
- ISBN
- 9780292702875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.28
€ 26.99
€ 25.28
Hardback. This work brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Topics explored include gender, race, class, spirituality, alternative lifestyles, and inter- and intra-ethnic identity. Editor(s): Fong, Mary; Chuang, Rueyling. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: GTC; JFSJ; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 190 x 26. Weight in Grams: 830.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517387
- ISBN
- 9780742517387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 211.11
€ 211.11
Paperback. This title is the outcome of a conference on common security and civil society in Africa. The contributions seek to go beyond the "war of images" to imagine a different and more secure future. Editor(s): Wohlgemuth, Lennart; Gibson, Samantha; Klasen, Stephan; Rothshild, Emma. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 242 x 11. Weight in Grams: 406. 216 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Wohlgemuth, Lennart; Gibson, Samantha; Klasen, Stephan; Rothshild, Emma. This title is the outcome of a conference on common security and civil society in Africa. The contributions seek to go beyond the "war of images" to imagine a different and more secure future. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JHM; JP. Dimension: 181 x 242 x 11. Weight: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Nordic Africa Institute
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789171064509
- ISBN
- 9789171064509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.51
€ 26.99
€ 23.51
Paperback. Draws on past philosophical debates to propose a new way of conceiving the commons in today's neo-liberal era. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745325316
- ISBN
- 9780745325316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.51
€ 37.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. A history of the meaning of property, this text aims to uncover in American legal writing a competing vision of property which has existed alongside the traditional conception. It argues that property has also been understood as propriety, a method for creating and maintaining an organized society. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; KFFR; LNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226013541
- ISBN
- 9780226013541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.83
€ 52.99
€ 40.83
hardcover. A growing fascination with flows of people and commodities poses fresh theoretical and methodical challenges to anthropology. This collection of essays considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange. Editor(s): Haugerud, Angelique; Stone, Priscilla M.; Little, Peter D. Series: Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847699421
- ISBN
- 9780847699421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.75
€ 172.75
Paperback. Stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society. Series: Radical Thinkers Classic Editions. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Verso
- Number of pages
- 94
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844676729
- ISBN
- 9781844676729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.71
€ 14.71
Paperback. Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. This book explores the relationship between collective memory and national identity in diverse cultures throughout history. It discloses the contested nature of various monuments by showing how groups and individuals struggle to shape the past to their own ends. Editor(s): Gillis, John R. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: HB; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029252
- ISBN
- 9780691029252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
€ 33.72