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Hardcover. Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene," claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. The author traces the field of behavior genetics back to its origins in the 1950s. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JHB; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226058313
ISBN
9780226058313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.82
€ 79.04

Paperback. Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene," claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. The author traces the field of behavior genetics back to its origins in the 1950s. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JHB; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226058450
ISBN
9780226058450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.82

Paperback. Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it for the opposite reason, to have more children. This study of aging and reproduction makes use of ethnographic and demographic data. Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDG; JFSL; JHBD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226058528
ISBN
9780226058528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can read the beliefs, psychology, traditions, and social concerns of their inhabitants. In doing so, she explores the role of vernacular architecture as an expression of culture. Num Pages: 334 pages, 64 halftones, 2 maps, 20 line drawings. BIC Classification: AMK; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226058610
ISBN
9780226058610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. The first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book. Num Pages: 216 pages, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226060972
ISBN
9780226060972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.35

Paperback. This volume provides a collection of Franz Boas's essays covering topics involved in the field of anthropology. Num Pages: 648 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 37. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226062419
ISBN
9780226062419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.63
€ 52.12

Paperback. Series: Midway Reprints. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226062433
ISBN
9780226062433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.99

Paperback. Examining representations of Balinese culture in complex contexts of Indonesia's colonial history, Hindu ritual practice as opposed to Islam, and comparative Indo-European hierarchies, Boon offers a powerful critique of doctrinal approaches to culture, religion, literature, politics, and the history of ideas and disciplines. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; HBTB; HDD; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064635
ISBN
9780226064635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve? This book addresses these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that the author's ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226066776
ISBN
9780226066776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Paperback. This study argues that child abandonment was common among all classes and morally acceptable from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a variety of sources, Boswell examines the evidence, presenting a history of the abandoned child and illustrating the changing meaning of family. Num Pages: 506 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JFSP1; JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
506
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226067124
ISBN
9780226067124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.49

Hardcover. Offers a look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. The author's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and taboos, and even the detailed preparation techniques involving food and drink in Mesopotamian high culture during the second and third millenniums BCE, as the Mesopotamians recorded them. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 152 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA; JHBT; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226067353
ISBN
9780226067353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.15
€ 44.21

Paperback. Series: Chicago History of American Religion. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCX7; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226068121
ISBN
9780226068121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German's conceptions of modernity and national culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226068916
ISBN
9780226068916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 339 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 245 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226069333
ISBN
9780226069333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.06

Paperback. Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In this book, the author offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFFN; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226072388
ISBN
9780226072388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. Examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. This book illustrates how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HRE; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226072722
ISBN
9780226072722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.81

Hardcover. Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. The author delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 line drawing, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226073361
ISBN
9780226073361
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.82
€ 78.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JPA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226074016
ISBN
9780226074016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Editor(s): Eisenstadt, S. N. Series: Heritage of Sociology Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226078076
ISBN
9780226078076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; JPFM; JPQB; KCF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Paperback Edition 1982
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226080383
ISBN
9780226080383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. An extended participant-observation study of work and politics in state socialism, based on research into machine building and steel production in Hungary. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JH; JPFC; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226080420
ISBN
9780226080420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. This book challenges this notion. Editor(s): Blanes, Ruy Llera; Santo, Diana Espirito. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226081779
ISBN
9780226081779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.97

Paperback. For centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJC; DSBH; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226085838
ISBN
9780226085838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.81

Paperback. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, the author tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Buryat response to it - the revival of shamanic practices after decades of socialist suppression. She offers a sophisticated analysis of the way economics, politics, gender, and other factors influence. Num Pages: 304 pages, 24 halftones, 3 maps, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPM; JHMC; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226086569
ISBN
9780226086569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.54

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