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Critical Issues In U.s. Health Reform by Eli Ginzberg 9780367166748
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book provides a thorough and careful examination of fate of public programs and specialty providers, academic health centers, and graduate medical education related issues in U.S. health reform.Book InformationISBN 9780367166748Author Eli... -
Foreign Consultants And Counterparts: Problems In Technology Transfer by Susan Scott-Stevens 9780367163730
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses upon the problems and solutions encountered by two primary sets of people involved in the transfer of technical knowledge: foreign consultants and host country counterparts. It presents an approach to many of the cross-cultural theories... -
Demands On Rural Lands: Planning For Resource Use by Chris Cocklin 9780367163693
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book aims to identify and characterize rural land-use planning issues, to describe developments in resource information systems, and to present several analytical frameworks and assess their potential contribution to planning the use of rural land... -
Many Faces Inform Scienc/h by Anita Weiss 9780367170615
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book reviews the current status of information science and explores possibilities for breakthroughs. It will be of interest to basic and applied researchers in the fields of information and computer science, to system developers and operators, and... -
Agrarian Reform In Reverse: The Food Crisis In The Third World by Birol A. Yesilada 9780367163617
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book focuses on the political-economic dimensions of the food crisis, with case studies from the four regions-Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East-of the Third World. It examines various international factors that influence agricultural... -
Family Farming In Europe And America by Boguslaw Galeski 9780367163501
RRP: £39.99£35.06Much has happened since agricultural economists and rural sociologists met at the University of Chicago in 1946 to discuss family farming. The problems and issues related to the structure of agriculture have been intensified by current economic... -
Culture And Change Along The Blue Nile: Courts, Markets, And Strategies For Development by Lina Fruzzetti 9780367163136
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book aims to bring a concern with cultural values and meanings closer to the study of the economic, political, jural, and religious change and development in the Sudan. It concentrates on sections of Sudanese society caught in the rapid changes of... -
Financing Governmental Decentralization: The Case Of Bangladesh by Larry Schroeder 9780367162979
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses on the methods by which local governments in Bangladesh are financed and how they may be strengthened by new and/or improved financial instruments under the decentralization policies.Book InformationISBN 9780367162979Author Larry... -
Corporate Management Of Health And Safety Hazards: A Comparison Of Current Practice by Roger E. Kasperson 9780367162719
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book aims at a better understanding of the current practice of hazard management by large corporations. In-depth studies of individual corporations provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the advances and problems inherent in industrial safety... -
My Own Boss?: Class, Rationality, And The Family Farm by Patrick H Mooney 9780367162658
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book looks at the technical developments that have facilitated the decline in farm population. It attempts to look behind these more apparent changes and the assumption that these transformations are merely 'adjustments' to the various markets that... -
American Rural Communities by A.E. Luloff 9780367162542
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is dedicated to the people of rural America whose struggle to make community meaningful provides important lessons. It includes the contributors' prescription for the 1990s that calls for a renewal of action, development, and leadership on the... -
Community And The Northwestern Logger: Continuities And Changes In The Era Of The Spotted Owl by Matthew S. Carroll 9780367162375
RRP: £27.99£24.28This book examines the economic and social circumstances of northwestern U.S. loggers in the face of shifts in environmental politics, dramatic reductions in timber harvest levels on federal lands, and changing technology and market forces in the era of... -
Barriers To Integrity: Modern Modes Of Knowledge Utilization by Donna H. Kerr 9780367162153
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book discusses how bureaucracy, professionalism, and the research system could be altered so that they might structure actions in more defensible and desirable ways. It focuses on one discipline, such as philosophy, sociology, mathematics, or... -
Community Development And Family Planning: An Egyptian Experiment by J. Mayone Stycos 9780367162016
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses on carrying out a national rural survey specifically designed to assess the village-based Population and Development Program (PDP) and gathering data on villages included in the survey. It provides some background regarding earlier... -
Household Crowding And Its Consequences by John Edwards 9780367161590
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book examines the social and psychological impact of household congestion in the context typical of the developing world on psychological wellbeing, marital and family relations, sibling relations, violence within the family, the impact on marital... -
Breast Cancer? Let Me Check My Schedule!: Ten Remarkable Women Meet The Challenge Of Fitting Breast Cancer Into Their Very Busy Lives by Peggy McCarthy 9780367160463
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book features step-by-step tactics to help women handle the emotional, sexual, and occupational impact of breast cancer and includes practical information on finding proper health care, locating support groups, and more. .Book InformationISBN... -
Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa by Grant Farred 9780367160364
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book attempts to address crucial political and cultural issues in contemporary South Africa: the experience of being coloured, the occupation of the racial interstices, and the condition of hybridity in a society marked by a penchant for polarity... -
Betrayed: A History Of Presidential Failure To Protect Black Lives by Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780367159863
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book traces the root cause of the White House's failure to protect the rights of African Americans. It gives a rich historical account of the racial philosophy, policies, and practices of successive presidents from Warren G. Harding to Bill Clinton... -
Medical Gridlock And Health Reform by Eli Ginzberg 9780367159382
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores and assesses the problems and transformations underway in the financing of U.S. health care and in the delivery of services on the eve of an era of major health care reform. It can be viewed as a follow-up to The Medical Triangle:... -
Law In The Sociological Enterprise: A Reconstruction by Lisa J. McIntyre 9780367159320
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explains the general effects of law on interpersonal relations, the concept of the civil contract, and the relationship between law and social norms. It shows that law is not only a reflection of social values but also fundamental to the... -
Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide For A Consumer Society by Michael Jacobson 9780367158941
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book documents the "unholy alliance" between corporations and Hollywood and takes up issues as how marketers turn citizens into consumers, ads that kill, sex in advertising, marketing in public schools, and selling of social issues. It... -
Agribusiness And The Small-scale Farmer: A Dynamic Partnership For Development by Simon Williams 9780367155827
RRP: £39.99£35.06Based on case histories from nine Third World countries, this book examines the successful cooperation between private agribusiness firms and small farmers to increase agricultural production and income in developing countries.Book InformationISBN... -
Multinational Corporations And The Third World by C.J. Dixon 9780367156527
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book, an outcome of the conference in 1983 held at the University of Birmingham, examines the varied roles played by multinational corporations in the economies of the Third World countries and concentrates more closely on regional, national,... -
Managing Death by James M. Hoefler 9780367160173
RRP: £39.99£35.06Drawing on provocative case studies, personal interviews, and detailed research, Managing Death examines the medical, legal, ethical, and clinical aspects of right-to-die issues.Book InformationISBN 9780367160173Author James M. HoeflerFormat... -
Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism by Paula Serafini 9780367862541
RRP: £41.99£36.75Performance Action looks to advance the understanding of how art activism works in practice, by unpacking the relationship between the processes and politics that lie at its heart. Focusing on the UK but situating its analysis in a global context of art... -
Totemism and Human-Animal Relations in West Africa by Sharon Merz 9780367861865
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores human-animal relations amongst the Bebelibe of West Africa, with a focus on the establishment of totemic relationships with animals, what these relationships entail and the consequences of abusing them. Employing and developing the... -
The Age of the Social: The Discovery of Society and The Ascendance of a New Episteme by Sal Restivo 9780367821159
RRP: £39.99£35.06The concept of society sui generis - society as a level of reality which could be studied scientifically - crystallized in the middle of the nineteenth century in Europe, with the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and today, more than at any other period... -
States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation by John O'Brien 9780367821135
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West. From anthropological research on... -
Metaphysical Sociology: On the Work of John Carroll by Sara James 9780367821081
RRP: £41.99£36.75This volume critically engages with the work of the acclaimed Australian sociologist John Carroll. It makes the argument for a metaphysical sociology, which Carroll has proposed should focus on the questions of fundamental existence that confront all... -
HBO's Original Voices: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power by Dr. Victoria McCollum 9780367821043
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. With studies of well-known shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, Insecure, Looking,... -
Instructor's Manual To Accompany Criminology by Kimberly Cook 9780367157968
RRP: £39.99£35.06The goal of this resource manual is to help students understand crime, the origins of criminological theory, the emergence of sociological criminology and the subcultures of delinquency. It also provides information on the different types of crimes that... -
Fertility Transitions, Family Structure, And Population Policy by Calvin Goldscheider 9780367157814
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book includes essays that reflect the central themes of population and development expressed in theory and research, in analysis and policy, in nations over time, in communities, and in families, for individual women and men in their complex social... -
Maryland: A Geography by James E. Dilisio 9780367168469
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides an analytical survey of the physical, social, cultural, and economic geography of Maryland. Though the emphasis is on human geography, significant attention is given to the physical base on which the cultural landscape has developed... -
Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan: Between Radicalism and the Search for Survival by Mohammed H. Sharfi 9780367785840
RRP: £39.99£35.06Examining the role played by ideology, internal politics and key figures within Sudan after the 1989 coup, this book analyses policymaking in the Sudanese administration in-depth and studies its effect on international and domestic politics and foreign... -
Emotions, Mobilisations and South Asian Politics by Amelie Blom 9780367785697
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book highlights the role of emotions in the contentious politics of modern South Asia. It brings new methodological, theoretical and empirical insights to the mutual constitution of emotions and mobilisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As... -
Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa by Pier Paolo Frassinelli 9780367785666
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa. Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media... -
EU Social Inclusion Policies in Post-Socialist Countries: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives on Implementation by Ingrid Fylling 9780367785352
RRP: £41.99£36.75The fact that post-socialist European Union (EU) countries are struggling with implementation of the EU's social inclusion policy is well known. But why is that so? Are the problems solely connected with how inclusion policies are enforced, or could it... -
Gender, Space and City Bankers by Helen Longlands 9780367785055
RRP: £41.99£36.75Gendered processes of globalisation, transnationalisation and urbanisation are increasing local and global inequalities and widening the gap between the rich and the poor. The global finance industry plays a key role in these processes, directing its... -
The World of the Banaras Weaver: A Culture in Crisis by Vasanthi Raman 9780367784768
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays out in everyday India. Using the metaphor of tana-bana - the warp and the weft of the Banarasi sari - the author reproduces the interwoven life of Hindu-Muslim relations in the Banarasi... -
Visualising the Empire of Capital by Martyn Hudson 9780367784348
RRP: £41.99£36.75Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were...