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Hardback. It is time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. This title showcases articles that pursue similar themes. Editor(s): Davis, Diane E.; Go, Julian. Series: Political Power and Social Theory. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 653.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849506670
- ISBN
- 9781849506670
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€ 138.42
€ 138.42
Hardback. Places emphasis on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis. This also emphasises on the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, distraction from key issues, and dilution of the idea of objectivity. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; RNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849506052
- ISBN
- 9781849506052
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€ 129.24
€ 129.24
Social Sources of Disparities in Health and Health Care and Linkages t...
Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (Ed.)
Hardback. Deals with Social Sources of Disparities in Health and Health Care. This title reviews basic material on the topic. It includes five articles, three focused on racial and ethnic factors in disparities and two on those factors and other social factors such as SES. Editor(s): Kronenfeld, Jennie. Series Editor(s): Kronenfeld, Jennie. Series: Research in the Sociology of Health Care. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 632.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848558342
- ISBN
- 9781848558342
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€ 130.04
€ 130.04
Hardback. In this volume, childhood is conceived as a structural feature of society and comparable across time and cultures. Such perspectives have been relatively under-represented in the "New Sociology of Childhood," which has tended both to stress children's agency and to favour ethnographic methods of inquiry. Editor(s): Qvortrup, Jens. Series: Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 616.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848557321
- ISBN
- 9781848557321
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€ 130.04
€ 130.04
Hardback. Broadly speaking, academic tourism research comes in two main shapes - why and how to. Both traditions seem unable to ever meet and their trajectory reminds of scissors agape. This title argues that tourism research finds itself in a serious scissors crisis. It reflects on how the crisis came about and looks at its effect on the real world. Editor(s): Aramberri, Julio (Drexel University). Series Editor(s): Jafari, Jafar. Series: Tourism Social Science Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 757.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848552388
- ISBN
- 9781848552388
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€ 151.58
€ 151.58
Hardcover. There is abundant evidence of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism by academics from the English-speaking world. This title familiarises readers in the US, UK, Australia and the English speaking regions of Africa and Asia with such evolutionary thinking. Editor(s): Dann, Graham; Parrinello, Giuli Liebman. Series: Tourism Social Science Series. Num Pages: 484 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 846.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781846639883
- ISBN
- 9781846639883
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€ 155.16
€ 155.16
Hardback. Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities. Editor(s): Marquis, Chris; Lounsbury, Michael; Greenwood, Royston. Series Editor(s): Lounsbury, Michael. Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Num Pages: 363 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 714.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 363
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780522845
- ISBN
- 9781780522845
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€ 149.65
€ 149.65
Paperback. Public toilets provide an opportunity for interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology are formed in public spaces and inscribed through design across cultures. This collection also explores the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public toilets as gendered spaces. Editor(s): Gershenson, Olga; Penner, Barbara. Num Pages: 262 pages, 33 Halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592139408
- ISBN
- 9781592139408
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.71
€ 38.99
€ 34.71
Hardcover. Public toilets provide an opportunity for interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology are formed in public spaces and inscribed through design across cultures. This collection also explores the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public toilets as gendered spaces. Editor(s): Gershenson, Olga; Penner, Barbara. Num Pages: 262 pages, 33 Halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592139392
- ISBN
- 9781592139392
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€ 98.82
€ 98.82
Paperback. Offering an introduction to and an overview of postwar social science in the United States, this title explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology's professional identity. It contends that from the late 1940s through the early 1960s leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592137145
- ISBN
- 9781592137145
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€ 35.99€ 32.53
€ 35.99
€ 32.53
Paperback. The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFG; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592136988
- ISBN
- 9781592136988
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.76
€ 36.99
€ 33.76
Paperback. How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals Series Editor(s): Arluke, Arnold; Sanders, Clinton R. Series: Animals, Culture, & Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592136490
- ISBN
- 9781592136490
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.76
€ 38.99
€ 34.76
Hardcover. How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals Series Editor(s): Arluke, Arnold; Sanders, Clinton R. Series: Animals, Culture, & Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHBL; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592136483
- ISBN
- 9781592136483
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€ 94.28
€ 94.28
Paperback. At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 313.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592134588
- ISBN
- 9781592134588
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€ 31.99€ 28.18
€ 31.99
€ 28.18
Paperback. Examines the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the world. This book provides multidimensional perspectives on the science and the politics of environmental and social justice, documenting the efforts of community and labour activists, government agencies, and others. Editor(s): Smith, Ted; Sonnenfeld, David; Pellow, David N. Num Pages: 376 pages, 37 b&w illustrations, 27 tables, 3 maps, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 503.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592133307
- ISBN
- 9781592133307
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.59
€ 36.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. This title tells us how the great American thirst developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of which, the author says, were "comic masterpieces of the legislator's art") sprang up to combat it. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBT; WBXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592132690
- ISBN
- 9781592132690
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.63
€ 36.99
€ 33.63
paperback. Describes the government's efforts to persuade retailers and clothing companies to participate in private monitoring programs. This work shows the different approaches to monitoring that firms have taken, and the variety of private monitors employed, from large accounting companies to local non-profits. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b/w illustrations, 8 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781592132560
- ISBN
- 9781592132560
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.53
€ 35.99
€ 32.53
Paperback. Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JHBL; JPFF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592131976
- ISBN
- 9781592131976
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.64
€ 35.99
€ 32.64
Paperback. This volume tells the story of the development and impact of sexology in the United States. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JHBK5; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- REV
- SKU
- V9781592131518
- ISBN
- 9781592131518
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.44
€ 36.99
€ 33.44
Paperback. While the Internet bubble has burst, the New Economy that the Internet produced is still with us, along with the myth of a workplace built around more humane notions of how people work and spend their days in offices. This is a study of New Economy workplaces in their heyday. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592131501
- ISBN
- 9781592131501
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.14
€ 32.99
€ 29.14
Paperback. Looking at the state of the American economy, this book finds that economic growth has become "delinked" from job creation, and that unemployment and underemployment are a permanent condition of the economy. It traces the historical roots of this state of affairs, and sees a continuum of econcomic austerity that creates a boom for the rich. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JPA; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592131389
- ISBN
- 9781592131389
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.09
€ 29.99
€ 27.09
Paperback. The male body in the study of gender, health, and medicalization largely has been ignored. This book presents research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. The introduction traces sociological work on medicalisation, masculinities, and the body. Editor(s): Rosenfeld, Dana; Faircloth, Christopher A. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 336 x 252 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9781592130986
- ISBN
- 9781592130986
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.35
€ 33.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. Tells the story of immigrants labour struggles, examining how unions can learn from their example, and explaining their activism in the face of terrific odds. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592130412
- ISBN
- 9781592130412
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.45
€ 34.99
€ 31.45
Paperback. Presents the history of the way class formed in the US. This work offers a look at the invention of whiteness and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed in the seventeenth century and consolidated by custom, social relations, and eventually naturalized by the structures that organize our lives and our work. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; JFSL1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399821
- ISBN
- 9781566399821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.56
€ 38.99
€ 34.56