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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. This book looks closely at those who do humanitarian work in New Delhi to consider why people engage in humanitarian work and to urge a rethinking of giving and belonging in a global context. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804770026
- ISBN
- 9780804770026
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€ 29.99€ 27.17
€ 29.99
€ 27.17
Hardback. This book looks closely at those who do humanitarian work in New Delhi to consider why people engage in humanitarian work and to urge a rethinking of giving and belonging in a global context. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770019
- ISBN
- 9780804770019
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€ 116.75
€ 116.75
Paperback. For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was a 'marriage crisis' heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. This title explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns. Num Pages: 200 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769600
- ISBN
- 9780804769600
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€ 29.99€ 29.11
€ 29.99
€ 29.11
Hardback. For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns under British rule in the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 200 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769594
- ISBN
- 9780804769594
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€ 123.99
€ 123.99
Paperback. This book reports the results of the first systematic nationwide survey in China of the attitudes that ordinary Chinese citizens have toward increased inequalities generated by the market reform program launched in 1978. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 tables, 14 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFF; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769426
- ISBN
- 9780804769426
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€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; JFFE; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769365
- ISBN
- 9780804769365
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€ 26.99€ 24.98
€ 26.99
€ 24.98
Hardback. The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; JFFE; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769358
- ISBN
- 9780804769358
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Condition: New
€ 106.77
€ 106.77
Paperback. Ethnic Entrepreneurs examines how diverse groups, including indigenous communities in Latin America and Latino communities in the United States, have become visible and valuable as agents of economic development in Latin America in recent years. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804769341
- ISBN
- 9780804769341
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€ 29.99€ 29.14
€ 29.99
€ 29.14
Hardback. Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism, Italy, and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768818
- ISBN
- 9780804768818
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Condition: New
€ 70.02
€ 70.02
Hardback. This book examines the impact of the Revolution of 1905 on the nature and contours of community and self among Jews (and Poles) in Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the turn of the century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763837
- ISBN
- 9780804763837
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Condition: New
€ 92.73
€ 92.73
Paperback. Examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's perceptions of law, with a special focus on the narratives of men and women who have suffered serious injuries in the province of Chiangmai, Thailand. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763820
- ISBN
- 9780804763820
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 27.09
€ 27.99
€ 27.09
Hardback. With innovative cross-national analyses by leading international scholars, Dividing the Domestic extends a rich tradition of sociological research on housework and gender to reveal how a country's culture and policies influence couples' private lives. Editor(s): Treas, Judith; Drobnic, Sonja. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 tables, 10 figures. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763578
- ISBN
- 9780804763578
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Condition: New
€ 74.87
€ 74.87
Paperback. This volume examines the ways youth, parents, community members, and civic leaders join forces to improve public education. Editor(s): Rogers, John; Orr, Marion. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHB; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763561
- ISBN
- 9780804763561
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. Diasporic Homecomings provides a comparative, analytical overview of the major ethnic return migrant groups in Europe and East Asia through an in-depth, ethnographic account of their experiences. Editor(s): Tsuda, Takeyuki. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FP; JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804762762
- ISBN
- 9780804762762
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.62
€ 36.99
€ 35.62
Paperback. A broad and ambitious reexamination of anthropology's potential and obligation to transform human rights theory and practice. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804762137
- ISBN
- 9780804762137
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.98
€ 26.99
€ 24.98
Hardback. This book reveals how ethnicity and notions of a traditional homeland interact in shaping a community's values and images through a close look at the Kazakhs of Mongolia. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPM; GTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 748.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761918
- ISBN
- 9780804761918
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Condition: New
€ 92.25
€ 92.25
Paperback. This book examines how language changes the way law is debated and negotiated, focusing on the courtrooms of postcolonial Hong Kong. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 tables, 2 figures, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 2AB; 2GDCC; JHB; LAFC; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761659
- ISBN
- 9780804761659
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Customizing Indigeneity follows the Aguaruna on their paths to becoming leaders of Peru's Amazonian movement, revealing both their creative cultural agency and the constraints of contemporary indigenous movement politics along the way. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761192
- ISBN
- 9780804761192
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.17
€ 29.99
€ 27.17
Paperback. Presents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth. Editor(s): Davis, Deborah S.; Feng, Wang. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 312 pages, 29 tables, 8 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHB; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761161
- ISBN
- 9780804761161
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. Caught in Play reveals that though we engage stories, games, and images for fun, it does not follow that entertainment is trivial in its effect on our lives. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761116
- ISBN
- 9780804761116
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.11
€ 29.99
€ 29.11