.png){kind=logo}
Sociology & anthropology
Results 4609 - 4632 of 20922
Sociology & anthropology
Hardback. Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book explores how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Editor(s): McAnany, Patricia A. Series Editor(s): Wood, Donald; Bishop, John. Series: Research in Economic Anthropology. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 579.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762314850
- ISBN
- 9780762314850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.51
€ 115.51
paperback. This is a qualitative study that documents the daily lives of vulnerable lone mothers and their children in Denmark. Loss of rights, gender and ethnic inequality, and family violence all emerge as key themes with international implications. Policy and practice recommendations are made with wide-ranging applications for an international audience. Num Pages: 204 pages, 5tabs. BIC Classification: 1DND; JFF; JFSP1; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861342775
- ISBN
- 9781861342775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.42
€ 30.99
€ 29.42
Hardcover. Num Pages: 162 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590330715
- ISBN
- 9781590330715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.92€ 72.36
€ 93.92
€ 72.36
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442252295
- ISBN
- 9781442252295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 53.92
€ 53.99
€ 53.92
Hardcover. Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonstrates that the quasi-religious commission of self-empowerment accounts for the explosive growth of commission-based sales in the developing world. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHMC; KJE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112490
- ISBN
- 9780230112490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. Easy to use, tried and tested techniques to aid direct work with vulnerable families for child protection and related professionals. This must-have guide is full of creative ideas to engage the whole family and effect positive change through direct work. Series: Direct Work with Vulnerable Families. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849055543
- ISBN
- 9781849055543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.90
€ 29.90
Paperback. NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 183 x 5. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- American Anthropological Association United States
- Edition
- Number 1
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913167120
- ISBN
- 9780913167120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.68
€ 33.68
Paperback. This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work identities are managed." Editor(s): Simpson, R.; Lewis, P.; Hopfl, H.; Slutskaya, Natasha. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; JMJ; KJU; KJWB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325511
- ISBN
- 9781349325511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work identities are managed. Editor(s): Simpson, Ruth; Slutskaya, Natasha; Lewis, Patricia; Hopfl, Heather. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 220 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277137
- ISBN
- 9780230277137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Hark, Sabine. Series: Lehrbuch Zur Sozialwissenschaftlichen Frauen- Und Geschlecht. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531152172
- ISBN
- 9783531152172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.50
€ 72.50
Paperback. This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFFK; JFSC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137577320
- ISBN
- 9781137577320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardback. Editor(s): Bruyere, Susanne Marie. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 tables, 4 charts, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFG; JHBL; KJMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501700583
- ISBN
- 9781501700583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.09
€ 40.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; GTF; JFF; JHB; JPQB; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349686360
- ISBN
- 9781349686360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAB; HRAX; HRCM; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298327
- ISBN
- 9781349298327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation. Editor(s): Goodley, Dan; Hughes, Bill; Davis, Lennard J. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFFJ; JHBA; LNTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 221 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243255
- ISBN
- 9780230243255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardcover. dsfsdfsdf Editor(s): Roulstone, Alan. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHB; JNV; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 189 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450418
- ISBN
- 9781137450418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.70
€ 138.70
Paperback. Explores the global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a range of local contexts. This book reports on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, India, and Japan. It addresses the definition of human rights in local contexts. Editor(s): Ingstad, Benedicte; Whyte, Susan Reynolds. Num Pages: 334 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHMP; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246171
- ISBN
- 9780520246171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFG; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 131
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137603432
- ISBN
- 9781137603432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.66
€ 71.66
Hardback. Disability Servitude traces the history of peonage-unpaid, forced labor-by people with disabilities in public and private institutions. Describing the work they performed and lawsuits filed to get paid, it links that history with the continued segregation and exploitation of workers with disabilities that are paid far less than minimum wage. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFG; JHBL; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137540300
- ISBN
- 9781137540300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.43
€ 138.43
Paperback. The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced than a casual reading or isolated proof texting may indicate. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HRA; HRAB; HRC; HRCG; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341337
- ISBN
- 9781349341337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 160.89
€ 160.89
Paperback. In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFC; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349484492
- ISBN
- 9781349484492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.68
€ 65.68
Hardcover. This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches. Editor(s): Curran, Tillie; Runswick-Cole, Katherine. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones, 1 diagrames. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFFJ; JFSP1; JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008213
- ISBN
- 9781137008213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.52
€ 116.52
Paperback. This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches. Editor(s): Curran, T; Runswick-Cole, Katherine. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349435555
- ISBN
- 9781349435555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.11€ 94.65
€ 95.11
€ 94.65
Paperback. Editor(s): Grover, Chris; Piggott, Linda. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHBL; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447318330
- ISBN
- 9781447318330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 40.17
€ 41.99
€ 40.17