Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Hardcover. Drawing on the experience and insights of 70 researchers across 7 countries and from a diverse range of cultures, regions and disciplines, this book explores the issues and ethics involved in cross-cultural research and how such research can be done with integrity. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263599
- ISBN
- 9781137263599
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€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Paperback. This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and economic development, whether the latter proceeds primarily from internal or external forces. Editor(s): Ascher, William; Heffron, John M. Num Pages: 263 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034847
- ISBN
- 9781137034847
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€ 61.95
€ 61.95
Hardcover. Merry argues that most voluntary separation experiments in education are not driven by a sense of racial, cultural or religious superiority. Rather, they are driven among other things by a desire for quality education, not to mention community membership and self respect. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JNKC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033703
- ISBN
- 9781137033703
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€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Paperback. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032041
- ISBN
- 9781137032041
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€ 54.99€ 42.99
€ 54.99
€ 42.99
Hardcover. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032034
- ISBN
- 9781137032034
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.83
€ 54.99
€ 43.83
Hardcover. This book examines and offers suggestions for how post-conflict practices should conceptualize and address harms committed by child soldiers for successful social reconstruction in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It defends the use of accountability and considers the agency of youth participants in violent conflict as responsible moral entities. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSP1; JHMC; LNFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030498
- ISBN
- 9781137030498
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€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. The book provides a comprehensive sociological and cultural explanation of Israel's politics toward the Palestinians, covering the period of the Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada and focusing on the concept of a 'new war' that is an outgrowth of internal relations within Israel itself and the diversionary politics of its leadership. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027566
- ISBN
- 9781137027566
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Condition: New
€ 63.23
€ 63.23
Hardcover. This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar, spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HRQM2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027498
- ISBN
- 9781137027498
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Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98
Hardcover. This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It argues that focusing on research-informed ideas usefully draws attention to the centrality of values, politics and advocacy for public health debates. Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBC; JPP; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026576
- ISBN
- 9781137026576
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Condition: New
€ 129.83
€ 129.83
Hardcover. Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought the material and spiritual culture of Iran to its present state even after the term was eradicated from the literary and popular language of the region. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HRE; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022936
- ISBN
- 9781137022936
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€ 140.78
€ 140.78
Hardcover. This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they get involved in deviance and risk-taking when they go abroad, driven by self validation and a commodified social context. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSEB; JFFP; JFSP2; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022394
- ISBN
- 9781137022394
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Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 221 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHMC; JMRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017871
- ISBN
- 9781137017871
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Condition: New
€ 108.95
€ 108.95
Hardcover. This book, for the first time, brings Niklas Luhmann's work into dialogue with other theoretical positions, including Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, gender studies, bioethics, translation, ANT, eco-theories and complexity theory. Editor(s): Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137015280
- ISBN
- 9781137015280
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Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover. Seamon explores the historical, theological, and societal dynamics of religious intermarriage as a way to introduce scholars to the myriad of factors that have contributed and will continue to contribute to the complete transformation of religion and Christianity in the twenty-first century. Series: Christianities of the World. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAF; HRCX6; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014849
- ISBN
- 9781137014849
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Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian impulse for developing a challenge to the status quo in academia and beyond. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JKVP; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009791
- ISBN
- 9781137009791
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Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within the 'strong' cultural sociology. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 186 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBA; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007612
- ISBN
- 9781137007612
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Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Hardcover. This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula. Num Pages: 242 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JHB; JNA; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007544
- ISBN
- 9781137007544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.99
€ 54.99
€ 43.99
Hardcover. Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007261
- ISBN
- 9781137007261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. With contributions from thirty authors from fifteen countries, this is a 'white book' for international work-family research and practice. The authors offer a bold look at the future and provide guidelines for future research, focusing on applied, international work-family research. Editor(s): Poelmans, Steven A. Y.; Greenhaus, Jeffrey H.; Las Heras Maestro, Mireia. Num Pages: 389 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan 2012-12-14
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137005991
- ISBN
- 9781137005991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.53
€ 120.53
Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Revitalization: Explorations in Si...
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Paperback. Many voices clamour to be heard in debates about whether shamans cure, and whether shamanic spirituality is worth continuing or recovering in the twenty-first century. This book provides new insights into the fascinating resurgence of shamanism through an exploration of the political repression of religion and its transcendence. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FCS; HRA; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137005564
- ISBN
- 9781137005564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12