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Hardback. Explores the issue of same-sex marriage through a range of biblical, historical, liturgical, and theological evidence. From David's love for Jonathan through the singleness of Jesus and Paul to the all-male heaven of John's Apocalypse, this title addresses pertinent passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Editor(s): Jordan, Mark D. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCX6; HRJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691123462
ISBN
9780691123462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.21
€ 55.72

Paperback. Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126012
ISBN
9780691126012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Hardback. Activists argue about how to define marriage, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. This title argues that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. It explains the assumptions hidden in widely held positions and common practices. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126678
ISBN
9780691126678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. This book illustrates how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 line illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127958
ISBN
9780691127958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.30

Paperback. Offers an overview of the fundamental ideas governing the study of populations. This book covers formal models as well as the underlying logic and context of demographic reasoning. It discusses measurements that involve a single individual, such as mortality and fertility. It moves from individual behaviors to population-level phenomena. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 line illus. 46 tables. BIC Classification: JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691128238
ISBN
9780691128238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.08
€ 64.47

Paperback. Shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. This title seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. It also relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129594
ISBN
9780691129594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. Challenging this view, this book shows how we use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties, especially intimate ties, to others, thus opening a window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHBK; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130637
ISBN
9780691130637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.19

Hardback. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. This title shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 halftones. 1 line illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCX; JHB; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691132990
ISBN
9780691132990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 51.34

Hardback. Drawing on the General Social Survey - a social science project that has tracked demographic and attitudinal trends in the United States since 1972, this title offers a window into diverse facets of American life, from intergroup relations to political views and orientations, social affiliations, and perceived well-being. Editor(s): Marsden, Peter V. Num Pages: 408 pages, 86 line illus. 66 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691133317
ISBN
9780691133317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.19
€ 83.75

Paperback. The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. Since its early twentieth-century peak, this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. This book tells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 49 halftones. 2 line illus. 17 tables. BIC Classification: AMA; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138473
ISBN
9780691138473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. This book challenges this notion by tracing the history of one well-known example in the field of artificial intelligence - a theorem on the foundations of fuzzy logic. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GP; JHB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691139401
ISBN
9780691139401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Where do neighborhoods come from and why do certain resources and effects such as social capital and collective efficacy bundle together in some neighborhoods and not in others? This title argues that neighborhood communities emerge from neighbor networks, and shows that these social relations are unique because of particular geographic qualities. Num Pages: 288 pages, 43 line illus. 32 tables. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140254
ISBN
9780691140254
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.34
€ 47.09

Hardback. Emile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, this book looks at the contributions made to economic sociology by Durkheim and his followers. It demonstrates the relevance of economic factors to sociology and shows how the Durkheimians inform today's economic systems. Translator(s): Tribe, Keith. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 line illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHBL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140551
ISBN
9780691140551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.21
€ 55.58

Hardback. Offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason. This work gives a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPQ; HPS; JHBT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140902
ISBN
9780691140902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 51.34

Paperback. Provides an overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia. This work assesses the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary ethical arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia. It explores evidence and case histories from the Netherlands and Oregon, where the practices have been legalized. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 line illus. 11 tables. BIC Classification: JFME; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140971
ISBN
9780691140971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. Multiculturalism has been blamed for encouraging oppression of women. Many critics opportunistically deploy gender equality to justify the retreat from multiculturalism, hijacking the equality agenda to perpetuate cultural stereotypes. The author offers a way of addressing dilemmas of justice and equality in multiethnic, multicultural societies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSL1; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141152
ISBN
9780691141152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHB; JHMC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147871
ISBN
9780691147871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.41
€ 42.58

Paperback. Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. This book presents the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. It explores issues such as the sharing of household output, the control of domestic misconduct, and the ownership of dwelling units. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: JHBK; LNMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147994
ISBN
9780691147994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardback. Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. This book examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. It shows that hits spread rapidly across radio because they clearly conform to an identifiable style or genre. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 halftones. 26 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFD; JHB; KNTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148731
ISBN
9780691148731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Provides a comprehensive look at the social engineering process that ensued. This title examines how collectivization assaulted the foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare". Num Pages: 520 pages, 24 halftones. 2 line illus. 9 tables. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJPG; JHBL; JPA; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 770.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149738
ISBN
9780691149738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.41
€ 42.58

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