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Sociology & anthropology

Paperback. More and more men and women in China are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure and free choice. Farrer explores this change by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai. Series: Chicago Visual Library-French Popular Lithographic Imagery. Num Pages: 412 pages, 10 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFSJ; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226238715
ISBN
9780226238715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.58

Hardback. Series: Computer Communications and Networks. Num Pages: 335 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 63 colour illustrations, 9 black & white tables, 3 colour. BIC Classification: HP; JHB; UGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 247 x 24. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319290294
ISBN
9783319290294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.85

paperback. Based on the longest-running survey of its kind in Canada, this book examines events in the lives of a generation of Ontario residents who graduated from grade 12 in 1973 and recreates the world in which these high school students faced the future. Num Pages: 368 pages, 42 tables and figures. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JHBC; JHBL; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780802083647
ISBN
9780802083647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.64

Hardback. Introduces optimal experimental design, in an accessible style that means very minimal mathematical background knowledge is needed. Provides guidelines for practitioners to increase the efficiency of their designs, demonstrating how optimal designs can reduce a study's costs and sample sizes. Series: Statistics in Practice. Num Pages: 346 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; PB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470694503
ISBN
9780470694503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.99

Paperback. "The New York Times Magazine" recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as "opting out." But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This study tackles this issue from the perspective of the women themselves. Num Pages: 310 pages, 2 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520256576
ISBN
9780520256576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.15

Paperback. Explores how oral history, using video recordings and storytelling as well as interviews, can be used for a number of purposes in communities of colour Editor(s): Barnett, Teresa; Noriega, Chon A. Num Pages: 160 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: HBTD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780895511447
ISBN
9780895511447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.80

Paperback. Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology. Editor(s): Sheftel, Anna; Zembrzycki, Stacey. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; HBTD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 18. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137339645
ISBN
9781137339645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.28

Paperback. Thinking beyond the page, and providing a rich nexus of human thought Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 black and white photographs, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: JFHF; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252078699
ISBN
9780252078699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Hardback. Delivers a reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. The author argues that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Series: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 maps, 9 line drawings, 73 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283336
ISBN
9780520283336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.11
€ 54.08

Hardback. By focusing on such commonplace, prosaic and mundane matters as dog-fouling, swearing, drinking, smoking, nudity, public toilets and parking, Orderly Britain very entertainingly tells us much about social change and, more particularly, about the changing nature of British society. Num Pages: 288 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472137968
ISBN
9781472137968
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691171135
ISBN
9780691171135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.32

Paperback. Presents an argument for attention to various dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. This book shows how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. It relates the intensities and banalities of common experiences and encounters, and the lingering resonance of passing events. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341079
ISBN
9780822341079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, this book collects essays that explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and demonstrate the centrality of ethical practice, judgment, reasoning. Editor(s): Lambek, Michael. Num Pages: 482 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 30. Weight in Grams: 772.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
482
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823233168
ISBN
9780823233168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 130.87

Paperback.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823233175
ISBN
9780823233175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Paperback. A case study of the development and reception of genomics in the Netherlands. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; MFN; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345343
ISBN
9780822345343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138251229
ISBN
9781138251229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

Hardback. * A provocative and challenging book which argues for a defiant innovation of thought* Puts forward a compelling argument: that everyday life should be regarded as a privileged object of investigation* The author is one of the leading sociologists of fin de siecle culture and society. . Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745611181
ISBN
9780745611181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Hardcover. Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent, and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Editor(s): Schielke, Samuli; Debevec, Liza. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360. An Anthropology of Everyday Religion. Series: EASA Series. 184 pages. Editor(s): Schielke, Samuli; Debevec, Liza. Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent, and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: HRA; JFSR; JHMC. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 14. Weight: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857455062
ISBN
9780857455062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.60

Paperback. Offers lessons about civil society and regime change - and about the paths to democratic consolidation. This book shows that the German experience was exceptional, and that what is often labeled polarization is the result of such factors as expansion of the franchise, elite defections, and the mobilization of new voters. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 line illus. 50 tables. BIC Classification: JHBC; JPHV; JPHX; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691089706
ISBN
9780691089706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.45

Paperback. At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134588
ISBN
9781592134588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

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