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Hardback. The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. Editor(s): Rasch, William. Translator(s): Schreiber, Elliott; Behnke, Kerstin; O'Neil, Joseph. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741224
ISBN
9780804741224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.61

Hardback. This text is an introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century, Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modernity is neither an Enlightenment project nor a ludic rejection of that project, but the pre-condition of all our deliberations. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739917
ISBN
9780804739917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.96

Hardback. This work situates the patrimonial rights of illegitimate offspring in Brazil within a system of Luso-Brazilian heirship that operated in the final half century of Portugese colonial rule. The book offers an explanation of how the rules of inheritance applied to people born outside of wedlock. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JHBK; LNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738811
ISBN
9780804738811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.44

Hardback. This book directly challenges a long-standing intellectual tradition of class analysis. Insisting on a realist conception of class, Kingston argues that presumed classes do not significantly share distinct, life-defining experiences. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 line diagram 23 tables. BIC Classification: JFSC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 563.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738040
ISBN
9780804738040
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.06

Hardback. This book explores how Arab workers (mainly women) and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work. It examines the tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial life, as well as the complications created by Arab-Jewish political and military conflict. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHBA; JHMC; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804737852
ISBN
9780804737852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.34

Hardback. Explores the accomplishments of the golden age of "macrohistory," the sociologically informed analysis of long-term patterns of political, economic, and social change. The topics range from the Marxian-inspired theory of revolutions to the roots of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735230
ISBN
9780804735230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.46

Hardback. Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a single kind of social operation. Spencer-Brown's Law of Form provides one way to conceive of such an operation, and this book is the first to make sociological use of this mathematical calculus of form. Editor(s): Baecker, Dirk. Translator(s): Irmscher, Michael; Edwards, Leah. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734233
ISBN
9780804734233
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.94

Hardback. Translator(s): Nice, Richard. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733311
ISBN
9780804733311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.63

hardcover. This leading sociologist brings his distinctive method of social criticism to bear on some of the most significant ideas, political and social events, and thinkers of the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732390
ISBN
9780804732390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.51

Hardback. What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1900, decide to suffer no longer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and take their own lives? In this study, the author seeks to uncover the experiences that drove people to suicide. Num Pages: 372 pages, 20 tables 13 figures. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731232
ISBN
9780804731232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.55

Hardback. This text aims to challenge much that has been written about the decline of sociology as a vital area of inquiry into the human condition. Against this Greek chorus of woe, it offers models for researchers struggling to develop, construct, and integrate coherent sociological theory and knowledge. Editor(s): Szmatka, Jacek; Skvoretz, John; Berger, Joseph. Num Pages: 484 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 850.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728447
ISBN
9780804728447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.38

Hardback. In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife's paid employment less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728355
ISBN
9780804728355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.89

Hardback. This intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto is an engaging, unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in early twentieth-century Japan. Includes 53 illustrations. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; BGHA; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724401
ISBN
9780804724401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.06

Hardback. The author shows how a new commercial and learned print culture attempted to write and regulate individual and collective practices in terms of a master idiom of family, sexuality, and gender upon which a post-revolutionary national community would turn. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 611.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722247
ISBN
9780804722247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.35

Hardback. In this provocative and timely reading of Emile Durkheim the author isolates the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories and demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them. Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720427
ISBN
9780804720427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718714
ISBN
9780804718714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 372 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 669.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718455
ISBN
9780804718455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.69

Hardback. This work provides a systematic account of Bourdieu's theoretical approach. It applies his theoretical perspective to the analysis of kinship patterns, the social construction of domestic space, social categories of perception and classification, and ritualized actions and exchanges. Translator(s): Nice, Richard. Num Pages: 340 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 645.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804717274
ISBN
9780804717274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.51

Hardback. Translator(s): Adamson, Matthew. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804715577
ISBN
9780804715577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.32

Hardback. Editor(s): Webster, Murray; Foschi, Martha. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 41. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804714211
ISBN
9780804714211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.52

Hardback. Editor(s): Giddens, Anthony; Turner, Jonathan. Num Pages: 436 pages, 12 line diagrams. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 739.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804713979
ISBN
9780804713979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.57

Hardback. Editor(s): Collier, Jane Fishburne; Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 27. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804713665
ISBN
9780804713665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.53

Hardback. Editor(s): Hanley, Susan B.; Wolf, Arthur P. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; HBTB; JHBD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804712323
ISBN
9780804712323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.16

Hardback. At the beginning of the 20th century, American reformers saw vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the nation's economic and social ills. These essays address the question of whether the ensuing educational reforms had any effect on the problems they were supposed to solve. Editor(s): Kantor, Harvey A.; Tyack, David. Num Pages: 380 pages, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804711210
ISBN
9780804711210
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.29

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