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Hardcover. Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230230286
ISBN
9780230230286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.40

Hardback. Offers an exploration of the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition. This book focuses on the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of participants from ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823256433
ISBN
9780823256433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.47

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198747239
ISBN
9780198747239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history is interwoven with dreams, stories, and letters of his family's life in America. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; BGA; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988160
ISBN
9780295988160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.77

Hardcover. In this ground-breaking new book on the Nortena and Surena (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Series: New Directions in Ethnography. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631234890
ISBN
9780631234890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.24

Paperback. In this ground-breaking new book on the Nortena and Surena (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Series: New Directions in Ethnography. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631234906
ISBN
9780631234906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.69

Paperback. This collection focuses attention on the relationships between "homeland" and "diaspora" communities in today's world. It highlights the changing character of homeland-diaspora ties and offers new understandings of the issues that these communities face and explores the roots of their fascinating, yet sometimes paradoxical, interactions Editor(s): Levy, Andre; Weingrod, Alex. Num Pages: 376 pages, 5 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804750790
ISBN
9780804750790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.19

paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252063275
ISBN
9780252063275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

Paperback. Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFF; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349476893
ISBN
9781349476893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.38

Hardcover. Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137374226
ISBN
9781137374226
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

paperback. Analysis that links the phenomenon of homelessness to wider debates about the changing social and economic environment remains relatively underdeveloped. This important book brings together contemporary debates and empirical research in order to explore the nature, experience and impact of social change in the context of risks and uncertainties. Num Pages: 316 pages, 2ill.17tabs. BIC Classification: JFFB; JFSC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 148. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9781861341501
ISBN
9781861341501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 37.78

Hardcover. Editor(s): Kutais, B. G. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: GBCR; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560727019
ISBN
9781560727019
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.60
€ 103.54

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190261092
ISBN
9780190261092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.36

paperback. This text provides an overview of types of home-based work, arguing that homeworking replicates wider divisions in the labour force. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages, the pay and conditions, and the family situations for women homeworkers. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803988743
ISBN
9780803988743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.79

Paperback. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JHMP; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 111 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141018133
ISBN
9780141018133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This book explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that shapes the twenty-first century - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 489.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9781784703936
ISBN
9781784703936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.59

Paperback. Translator(s): Sainsbury, M. Series: Nature of Human Society. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Edition
Second Edition, Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226169637
ISBN
9780226169637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.42

Paperback. A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786630605
ISBN
9781786630605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.25

Paperback. Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question. Translator(s): Bing, Peter. Num Pages: 360 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518. The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. 360 pages, Ill. Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 23. Weight: 510. Translator(s): Bing, Peter.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520058750
ISBN
9780520058750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.99

Hardcover. Revealing seven errors in the way we view the human species, this volume explores the homo novus -- an alternative view of what it is to be human. Leaders in the field present and discuss converging evidence supporting the homo novus, from various disciplines. Editor(s): Frey, Ulrich; Stormer, Charlotte; Willfuhr, Kai. Series: The Frontiers Collection. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; JHM; JMR; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Edition
2010th Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642121418
ISBN
9783642121418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.70

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