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Sociology & anthropology
Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society
. Ed(S): Shrum, Wesley; Benson, Keith; Bijker...
Hardback. This book examines the role of research and the production of knowledge in the information society, with special emphasis on developing areas of the world. It contains cutting-edge technologies in the utilization of information technology for science and engineering. Editor(s): Shrum, Wesley; Benson, Keith; Bijker, Wiebe; Brunstein, Klaus. Num Pages: 274 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387327228
- ISBN
- 9780387327228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.25
€ 133.25
Paperback. Examines the sociological approach to the study of the military. Editor(s): Caforio, Giuseppe. Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Num Pages: 498 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 902.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387324562
- ISBN
- 9780387324562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.58
€ 126.58
Hardback. Examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class, with special regard to democratization and evolution of civil society. As well as exploring variations within the class across Malaysia, the author also draws comparisons with the working class elsewhere in East Asia. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMM; GTB; GTF; JFSC; JHMC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333968819
- ISBN
- 9780333968819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection. The chapters are written by leading social analysts of sport from across the world, and examine the contributions of major social theorists towards our critical understanding of modern sport. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333800799
- ISBN
- 9780333800799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.06
€ 138.06
Hardback. Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organized through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this text stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Editor(s): Hearn, Prof. Jeff; Roseneil, Sasha. Series: Explorations in Sociology. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333747162
- ISBN
- 9780333747162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
hardcover. A growing interest in political Islam has assumed significant ideological and intellectual dimensions especially in recent years. Rather than viewing it as Islam versus the rest, or tradition against modernity, this volume, without overlooking the tensions, also acknowledges the mutualities. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 380 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2; JHM; JPFK; JPFN; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1999th Edition
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718346
- ISBN
- 9780333718346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.93
€ 128.93
Hardback. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization; they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a geopolitical order. This book brings Max Weber's sociology to bear on this transformation of the political landscape. Editor(s): Schroeder, Ralph. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333712535
- ISBN
- 9780333712535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardback. This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his approach to 'the media'. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFC; JFD; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333666623
- ISBN
- 9780333666623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. This text examines theories of pluralism and locality, and argues that they are the mystified expression of the current political and economic impasse. The critique sets out the case for developing a new humanism to extend rationality. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; JPA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333659014
- ISBN
- 9780333659014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Hardcover. Are the origins of charisma the same in politics, the media and religion? This interpretation of charisma argues that the basis of charisma in all its forms must be found in the often-obscure symbolic intersection between the inner world of the charismatic and external social and political reality. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; JMA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333647943
- ISBN
- 9780333647943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.86
€ 126.86
Hardback. This is a comparative study of nationalism and nation-building in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland. All are historic nations within larger states. The book argues that the concepts of ethnicity, nationalism and the state need to be separated. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DSE; 1KBC; JH; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333631744
- ISBN
- 9780333631744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. Examining the commercialization of accountancy, this book finds it directly related to the shift by capital away from the consensus it had entered into with labour during the post-war boom. It argues that this transformation polarized the class-structure of the advanced economies. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KFC; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333618561
- ISBN
- 9780333618561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.41
€ 194.41
Paperback. The profound changes in the labour market during the 1980s are examined in this book in relation to the ideas of flexible specialization and the "flexible firm" and Marxist regulation theory, supplemented by fresh empirical evidence concerning changes in the labour process. Editor(s): Gilbert, Nigel; etc.; Burrows, Roger (Associate Dean, School of Human Studies, University of Teeside); Pollert, Anna (Senior Research Fellow, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick). Series: Explorations in Sociology. British Sociological Association Conference Volume Series. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333618158
- ISBN
- 9780333618158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardback. Attempting a coherent portrait of the heart of Japan's economic and political decision making, this book presents the top 2000 decision makers occupying the core positions in Japan's ruling party, the central ministries, and in big business and its organizations. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JH; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333584637
- ISBN
- 9780333584637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardback. A study of the social construction and the impression management of the public forms of worship of Catholicism and Anglicanism. The study is an effort to link sociology to theology in a way that serves to focus on an issue of social praxis. Num Pages: 422 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCC91; HRCM; HRCR; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 219 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333550793
- ISBN
- 9780333550793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.57
€ 195.57
Hardback. The author examines the relationships between the social problems of the mass age, developments in late 20th century capitalism, the growth of a mass media advertising system, and the operation and assumptions of liberal democracy. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; JPFK; JPHV; KNTY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333488706
- ISBN
- 9780333488706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
paperback. What kind of escape is tolerated in modern society? How is it shaped by historical expectations of leisure and travel? And what do we actually experience when we engage in leisure or travel activity? This book tries to supply answers to these questions. Num Pages: 251 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333475782
- ISBN
- 9780333475782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Hardback. Looks at the issue of equal pay for equal value with regards the race, class and gender of employees. Chapters examine such topics as comparable worth and its impact on black women, gender and class in comparable worth, equal worth in British banking and comparable worth in US nursing. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFSJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333475065
- ISBN
- 9780333475065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Paperback. On the basis of a distinctive "material-cultural" approach to ethics, this book puts the case for radically changing the conventional terms of debate in respect to intersecting issues: the problem of sexual harrassment, and the place of "citizenship" in socialist political theory and programmes. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JHM; JPFF; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333465981
- ISBN
- 9780333465981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.93
€ 71.93
Paperback. A collection of critical essays which reject the assumptions that leisure relations are relations of freedom, self determination, life satisfaction and growth. The essays look at power and policy issues in leisure relations and attempt to produce a critical sociology of the subject. Editor(s): Rojek, Chris. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333461709
- ISBN
- 9780333461709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.35
€ 71.35
Paperback. An examination of the family unit in Italy, including coverage of topics such as abortion, working mothers, and the influence of the Catholic church on family life. Other titles in the series from which this book is taken include "On Law and Ideology" and "Poetry and Narrative in Performance". Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333426784
- ISBN
- 9780333426784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.22
€ 126.22
Hardcover. An examination of the family unit in Italy, including coverage of topics such as abortion, working mothers, and the influence of the Catholic church on family life. Other titles in the series from which this book is taken include "On Law and Ideology" and "Poetry and Narrative in Performance". Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333426777
- ISBN
- 9780333426777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Hardcover. Frazer set out to discover the origins of one ancient custom in ancient Rome - the plucking of the Golden Bough from a tree in the sacred grove of Diana - and was led by his investigations into a twenty-five year study of primitive customs, superstitions, magic and myth throughout the world. Num Pages: 770 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRQX; JFHF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1124.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333059104
- ISBN
- 9780333059104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.17
€ 132.17
Paperback. This title explores the relationship between music, people and places through an analysis of Bolivian music performances by a non-governmental organization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble and by the people living in two rural areas of Potosi. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; AVA; AVGH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240158
- ISBN
- 9780312240158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54