Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FB; 1QDT; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234826
- ISBN
- 9780520234826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.26
€ 52.99
€ 38.26
Paperback. A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335405
- ISBN
- 9780822335405
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Hardback. Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent we ." Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHMC; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088641
- ISBN
- 9780674088641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.41
€ 54.41
Paperback. Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359654
- ISBN
- 9780822359654
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Condition: New
€ 37.63
€ 37.63
Paperback. This powerful, accessible new study explores the contributions that anthropology has made to the study and understanding of Islam. Series: New Departures in Anthropology. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 344. Series: New Departures in Anthropology. 230 pages. This powerful, accessible new study explores the contributions that anthropology has made to the study and understanding of Islam. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 12. Weight: 374.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521529785
- ISBN
- 9780521529785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.24
€ 35.99
€ 34.24
Paperback. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 40 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550. Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore. Series: Radical Perspectives. 392 pages, 40 photographs. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; JFSL1; JHMC. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 23. Weight: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353591
- ISBN
- 9780822353591
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Condition: New
€ 37.70
€ 37.70
Hardback. Changes in longevity, marriage, and the workplace have undermined Social Security, making the experience of old age increasingly unequal. Anne Alstott's pragmatic, progressive revision would permit all Americans to retire between 62 and 76 but would provide generous early retirement benefits for workers with low wages or physically demanding jobs. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA; KFFD1; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088757
- ISBN
- 9780674088757
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.36
€ 47.99
€ 40.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Knobel, Michele; Lankshear, Colin. Series: New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies. Num Pages: 251 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBK; JNSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820495231
- ISBN
- 9780820495231
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Condition: New
€ 59.49
€ 59.49
Paperback. Offers a look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. This book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at a time to territorial states and beyond. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 184. Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity. 160 pages. Offers a look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. This book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at a time to territorial states and beyond. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Dimension: 195 x 128 x 10. Weight: 182.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826491695
- ISBN
- 9780826491695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.14
€ 49.14
Hardcover. Study conducted in Raina gram panchayat, Barddhaman District, West Bengal and Warwat Khanderao gram panchayat, Buldhana District, Maharashtra, India. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSF; JHBC; JPP; JPQB; KCM; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Tulika Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789382381785
- ISBN
- 9789382381785
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.02
€ 33.99
€ 25.02
Hardback. Sheila Kitzinger, passionate campaigner for women's and babies' rights, childbirth educator and author, describes the experiences that have shaped her since childhood and the enormous changes that have taken place over the last 50 years on the subject of birth. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JHM; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 39. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Publisher
- Pinter & Martin Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780661704
- ISBN
- 9781780661704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.71
€ 26.99
€ 19.71
Paperback. What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287235
- ISBN
- 9780520287235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Hardback. What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287228
- ISBN
- 9780520287228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.48€ 73.37
€ 95.48
€ 73.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 59 Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 201 x 27. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345805102
- ISBN
- 9780345805102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.59
€ 17.99
€ 16.59
paperback. In this book, the author makes a distinction between education as a 'concept' and education as a 'system'. He highlights the importance of connecting the classroom with life outside. Through his essays, he invites the reader to shape public understanding about the social purpose of education. Series: Oxford India Paperbacks. Num Pages: 196 pages, With illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press India
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199455478
- ISBN
- 9780199455478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.41
€ 38.41
A Philosophy of Social Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Dundon, R. W., Jainer, J. L., Dundon, Ronald ...
Hardcover. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560727309
- ISBN
- 9781560727309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.95€ 61.76
€ 79.95
€ 61.76
Paperback. Presents an extended case study of the 20th-century AIDS epidemic and the cultural circumstances from which it emerged. The book brings together anthropology, demography and epidemiology to explain how the Chagga people of Tanzania in Africa experience AIDS. Series: Worlds of Desire S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 maps, 6 line drawings, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; JFFH2; JHMC; MBNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748863
- ISBN
- 9780226748863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.94
€ 36.99
€ 28.94
Paperback. Describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Series: Sociology in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 296 pages, 52. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278196
- ISBN
- 9780520278196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.40
€ 42.40
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Critical Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911106364
- ISBN
- 9781911106364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.09
€ 30.99
€ 30.09
Paperback. "A primer of Population Genetics", third edition, provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to population genetics. The four chapters of the book address genetic variation, the causes of evolution, molecular population genetics and the genetic architecture of complex traits. Num Pages: 215 pages, 73 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBD; PSAK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Sinaeur
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0003012
- ISBN
- 9780878933044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Editor(s): Lambek, Michael. Series: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 696 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HRA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 696
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136143
- ISBN
- 9781405136143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 48.42
€ 49.99
€ 48.42
Paperback. Instructs readers on how to use realism to conceptualize and conduct their qualitative study to get results with greater validity. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761929239
- ISBN
- 9780761929239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.80
€ 78.80
Paperback. New Labour had a momentous impact on British family policy. In this timely book, Clem Henricson asks whether its aspirations were met, or were indeed realisable, and formulates radical proposals for the future. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447300533
- ISBN
- 9781447300533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.73
€ 32.99
€ 31.73
Paperback. In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; HRLF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745637891
- ISBN
- 9780745637891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.59
€ 28.59