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Sociology

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644909
ISBN
9780888644909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.43

Hardback. The authors challenge psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing. Highlighting the politics of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, case studies across continents explore wellbeing in relation to health, children and youth, migration, economics, religion, family, land mines, national surveys, and indigenous identities. Editor(s): White, Sarah C. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 black & white tables, 2 maps, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBC; JKS; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137536440
ISBN
9781137536440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.28

Paperback. Takes the reader on a tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. The author documents in detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies and private interests create needless suffering. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283275
ISBN
9780520283275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.01

Hardback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277380
ISBN
9780520277380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.22
€ 72.38

Paperback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277397
ISBN
9780520277397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

paperback. Offers a look at American ritual. This title focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. It explores the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant. Num Pages: 290 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFSJ; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520217911
ISBN
9780520217911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a unique comparison of the methods which have been employed by governments to control it. Editor(s): Pickard, Sarah. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHB; JKV; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485727
ISBN
9781349485727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Paperback. This collection examines anti-corruption campaigns and argues that they have often resulted in perverse and unintended consequences. The book examines how corruption has been addressed (and sometimes tolerated) in Africa, Asia, Latin America and East & Central Europe to interrogate government policy and question development discourse and practice. Editor(s): Bracking, Sarah. Series: Palgrave Studies in Development. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPA; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357697
ISBN
9781349357697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardcover. Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSP1; JHBL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230296428
ISBN
9780230296428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JHB; JHMC; JNB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333561
ISBN
9781349333561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Sara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822369608
ISBN
9780822369608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Sara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822369745
ISBN
9780822369745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.67

paperback. This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporary spirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRLK; JFC; JHB; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349304905
ISBN
9781349304905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporary spirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 figures. BIC Classification: HRLK; HRQM2; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219397
ISBN
9780230219397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Paperback. Illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of portraiture, a method of inquiry that shares some of the features of other qualitative research methods such as ethnography, case study, and narrative placing it within the larger discourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broader terrain of qualitative research. Num Pages: 306 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787962425
ISBN
9780787962425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.28

Paperback. Focused on marital immigration from China to Taiwan, the book documents the struggles of these women and men as they seek acceptance and recognition in their new home. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 b/w, 2 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; HBTB; JFFN; JHBK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286238
ISBN
9780520286238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Presents an ethnographic study of China/US adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. This book also follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions in both China and the US that prepare children and parents for each other; the practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; and more. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 331 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780814719725
ISBN
9780814719725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover. * A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care including grief and bereavement. * Beginning with the physiology of the dying process and its effects on patients and their loved ones, the book addresses the range of psychological interventions that can ease the process for all. Series: Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470406939
ISBN
9780470406939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.83

Paperback. Offers a collection of pieces on adoption, by writers from three sides of the issue: adopted children, birth mothers, and adoptive parents. The pieces in this work talk about identity, family, love and belonging. Editor(s): Holloway, Sara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JHBK; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862078574
ISBN
9781862078574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813583914
ISBN
9780813583914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.84

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847429674
ISBN
9781847429674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.98

Hardback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5753 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346661
ISBN
9780822346661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.56

Paperback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347255
ISBN
9780822347255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Traces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and United States. This book draws attention to the interactive and relational history of Indian birth control. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFM; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252074806
ISBN
9780252074806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.75

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