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Paperback. Deals with the human/companion animal relationship and what happens when that bond is broken. This book acknowledges the significance of the relationship and the grief involved when a pet dies or is terminally ill. It covers multidisciplinary care that can be given by veterinarians, psychiatrists, social workers, philosopher-ethicists, and others. Editor(s): Kay, William; Nieburg, Herbert; Kutscher, Austin; Grey, R.; Fudin, Carole. Num Pages: 198 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHBZ; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813813271
ISBN
9780813813271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.83

Paperback. "Magliocco impressively corrals the diverse writings and experiences of U.S. neo-pagans into this highly readable and deeply researched ethnographic study.. Highly recommended."-Choice Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HRKP; JHBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812218794
ISBN
9780812218794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Policy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JHB; JHMC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804797788
ISBN
9780804797788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804789677
ISBN
9780804789677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.23

Hardback. Advocates a crucial shift from looking at theory in social science, to the act of theorizing and the construction of theories. Editor(s): Swedberg, Richard. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804789417
ISBN
9780804789417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.75

Paperback. Focuses on women and households as significant productive units of global production systems and brings gender and social reproduction into the theoretical center of global commodity and value chain analysis. Editor(s): Dunaway, Wilma A. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; KCM; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804789080
ISBN
9780804789080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.64

Paperback. This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai-a food lover's paradise-and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chinese history more generally. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, fig. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804786911
ISBN
9780804786911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. This book offers a nuanced understanding of the contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, local networks, and innovation in contentious action across the Middle East and North Africa to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011. Editor(s): Beinin, Joel; Vairel, Frederic. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JHB; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785693
ISBN
9780804785693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. Examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses that challenge, reform, and even retrench neoliberalism's hegemony in Latin America. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JHBA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784528
ISBN
9780804784528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

Hardback. Offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. Editor(s): Wittek, Rafael; Snijders, Tom A. B.; Nee, Victor. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784184
ISBN
9780804784184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.39

Hardback. An assessment of the relative importance of previous school performance and choice in creating social background inequalities in educational attainment. Editor(s): Jackson, Michelle. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804783026
ISBN
9780804783026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781459
ISBN
9780804781459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Hardback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781138
ISBN
9780804781138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.71

Hardback. Uses Barack Obama's election and administration to illustrate the ways race combines with seemingly non-racial ideas to generate social meaning. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804780957
ISBN
9780804780957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.36

Paperback. This book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBK; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777322
ISBN
9780804777322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality. Editor(s): Carlson, Marcia J.; England, Paula. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770897
ISBN
9780804770897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. This book uncovers how working the night shift at India's transnational call centers affects the lives of women workers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, 4 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804769136
ISBN
9780804769136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.36

Paperback. Approaches the theories, organization, and practices of criminal justice from a sociological perspective so that students can simultaneously develop expertise in criminal justice and understand how issues related to the police, courts, and corrections are informed by broader sociological principles and concepts. Editor(s): Kubrin, Charis E.; Stucky, Thomas D. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 25. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762601
ISBN
9780804762601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 42.15

Hardback. A history of perceptions of the blind and of their integration or lack thereof in French society, this book introduces us to a host of fictional and real individuals and paints a moving picture of their advances and disappointments, concluding with the triumphant invention of Louis Braille. Translator(s): Cohen, Emily-Jane. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
403
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757683
ISBN
9780804757683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.25

Hardback. A study of Hannah Arendt's indictment of social science, approaches to totalitarianism (Bolshevism and National Socialism), and of the robust responses of her contemporary sociological critics: Raymond Aron, David Riesman, Jules Monnerot, and Theodor Abel. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756501
ISBN
9780804756501
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Paperback. Analyzes what it is like to grow up as the state-appointed vanguard of modernization. Based on surveys and ethnographic research in China, this book explores the social, economic, and psychological consequences of the government's decision to accelerate the fertility transition. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSP2; JHBD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804753302
ISBN
9780804753302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. The danwei (workunit) has been the fundamental social and spatial unit of urban China under socialism. With particular focus on the link between spatial forms and social organization, this book traces the origins and development of this critical institution up to the present day. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 table, 12 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBL; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750387
ISBN
9780804750387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.97

Paperback. This study uses qualitative and quantitative data from the history of a specific organization, Stanford University, to develop speculations about the ways in which written rules change. It contributes both to a theory of rules and to theories of organizational decision-making, change, and learning. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 line diagram 21 tables 13 graphs. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739962
ISBN
9780804739962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. 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: 151 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734240
ISBN
9780804734240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

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