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Social Change And Family Processes: Arab Communities In Shefara'm by Majid Al-haj 9780367287474
RRP: £135.00£111.70In this book, Majid Al-Haj analyzes the structure of family kinship groups, the role of women, and fertility among several Arab subcommunities in Israel. He combines historical materials, anthropological evidence, and several major surveys in tracing... -
Science, Technology, And The Issues Of The Eighties: Policy Outlook by Albert H. Teich 9780367286774
RRP: £135.00£111.70First published in 1982. Recognizing that science and technology have become increasingly relevant to important public policy issues, Congress has mandated the periodic preparation of a "Five Year Outlook for Science and Technology" to help U.S... -
Science, Technology, And Development by Atul Wad 9780367286743
RRP: £86.99£72.68This book examines issues specific to the regions of Latin America and Africa and deals with an issue that Africa has shown the least progress in terms of science and technology and yet it is a region where the needs are urgent in human terms.Book... -
Science, Politics, And Controversy: Civilian Nuclear Power In The United States, 19461974 by Stephen L Del Sesto 9780367286729
RRP: £135.00£111.70As of June 1977, the United States had some 232 nuclear power plants either planned or in operation, with a generating capacity estimated at about 321 million kilowatts. To date, the industrial world has spent over $200 billion in order to produce useful... -
Science, Agriculture, And The Politics Of Research by Lawrence M Busch 9780367286712
RRP: £135.00£111.70Many friends, colleagues, and research staff members have directly and indirectly contributed to this book. It is impossible to acknowledge the contribution of each. Still, we would like to recognize several persons as well as institutions that have been... -
Science And Technology Indicators For Development by Hiroko Morita-lou 9780367286682
RRP: £135.00£111.70The current indicators used to measure the impact of science and technology in developing countries have been formulated based on conditions and assumptions that are primarily relevant to developed countries. The contributors to this volume contend that... -
Science And The Question Of Human Equality by Margaret S Collins 9780367286699
RRP: £135.00£111.30This book provides an interdisciplinary look at racism and science, investigating the biological and social realities of individual and group differences. The contributors examine race and racial distinctions, environmental versus genetic contributions... -
Rural Society In The U.s.: Issues For The 1980s by Don A Dillman 9780367286408
RRP: £86.99£73.28Must rural Americans pay the price of urban progress and modern lifestyles? How will the increased pressures of the 1980s affect those who live and work in rural communities? In addressing these overriding questions the authors of this book take a... -
Rural Policies For The 1990s by Cornelia Flora 9780367286361
RRP: £86.99£72.68Crisis in rural America is by now an all too familiar complaint, yet the problems presented by changing demographics, economic decline, and increasing poverty persist. They have not vanished with a new administration. However, with a new farm bill in the... -
Rural Industrialization In Israel by Raphael Bar-el 9780367286347
RRP: £86.99£72.28Rural development in Israel consists of a unique variety of industrialization experiences that may be instructive for many countries at various stages of development. The social, ideological, political, economic, and organizational precepts that Israel's... -
Rural Education In Urbanized Nations: Issues And Innovations by Jonathan P Sher 9780367286309
RRP: £135.00£111.70A reversal in rural-to-urban migration patterns is creating increasing interest in the quality of education in rural areas and in techniques for meeting educational needs in sparsely populated regions. Wholesale urbanization of rural schools generally is... -
The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism In The Age Of Global Capitalism by Arif Dirlik 9780367318901
RRP: £135.00£117.68The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. Although the new era of global capitalism calls for the... -
Cultural Resources: Planning And Management by Jr. Dickens 9780367167820
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a wide range of perspectives from academia, private industry, and governmental agencies. It discusses how a resource is defined, legal and government requirements, and improved methods for implementing cultural resource studies and... -
Research, Realpolitik, And Development In Korea: The State And The Green Revolution by Larry Burmeister 9780367285760
RRP: £135.00£111.70This book explores the politics of Korean developmental state and commitment of state agents to rapid industrialization within world political economy, focusing the Korean green revolution. It assesses how differences in state/society relationships... -
Reporters Under Fire: U.s. Media Coverage Of Conflicts In Lebanon And Central America by Landrum R Bolling 9780367285692
RRP: £135.00£111.30News media professionals, especially those covering political events or wars, are often accused of distorting the news or presenting biased and superficial analyses. Coverage of the recent conflicts in Central America and the Middle East has been... -
Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technologies And Social Policy by Robert H Blank 9780367285319
RRP: £135.00£111.70This book examines critical social-policy issues emerging from recent developments in human reproductive technology. Although considerable attention has been focused on the ethical dimensions of these developments, the policy dimension has largely been... -
The New Work Order by James Gee 9780367318802
RRP: £130.00£112.11Workplace democracy. Empowerment. Team leaders. Knowledge workers. This is the language of ?the new work order? promoted by today's management, which promises more meaningful and satisfying work, greater respect for diversity, and more democratic... -
The New Temperance: The American Obsession With Sin and Vice by David Wagner 9780367318796
RRP: £125.00£107.86The war on drugs ? the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ? v-chips to control what children watch on TV ? censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads?bipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex ? constant warnings about food and fat ? all... -
Recognizing Race and Ethnicity, Student Economy Edition: Power, Privilege, and Inequality by Kathleen Fitzgerald 9780367285210
RRP: £135.00£112.30To better reflect the current state of research in the sociology of race/ethnicity, this book places significant emphasis on white privilege, the social construction of race, and theoretical perspectives for understanding race and ethnicity.Book... -
Public Television For Sale: Media, The Market, And The Public Sphere by William Hoynes 9780367284824
RRP: £135.00£111.70Public television is uniquely positioned in our country to contribute to the invigoration of democratic public life because, ostensibly, it is neither driven by the market nor dominated by the state. In this comprehensive analysis of the forces that... -
The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies by Ray Hutchison 9780367318512
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book discusses more general consideration of marginalized urban spaces and peoples around the globe. It considers the question: Is the formation and later dissolution of the Jewish ghetto an appropriate model for understanding the experience of... -
Populations At Risk In America: Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century by George J Demko 9780367283902
RRP: £86.99£72.28As this century draws to a close and the new one approaches, the United States is still struggling with serious and persistent social problems. These troubling dilemmas, including poverty, homelessness, discrimination, and severe inequity, afflict some... -
Population, Ethnicity, And Nationbuilding by Calvin Goldscheider 9780367283896
RRP: £135.00£111.70This volume focuses on the linkages between ethnicity and population processes in the context of nation-building. Using historical and contemporary illustrations in a variety of countries, parts of this complex puzzle are scrutinized through the prisms... -
Population And Environment: Rethinking The Debate by Lourdes Arizpe 9780367283858
RRP: £135.00£111.70This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts.Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships the book focuses especially... -
Politics, Science And Cancer: The Laetrile Phenomenon by Gerald E. Markle 9780367283766
RRP: £135.00£111.30At no time in U.S. history has there been a more effective challenge to medical expertise and authority than that mounted by the contemporary Laetrile movement. The efficacy of Laetrile has been debated for over twenty-five years, but despite vigorous... -
Politics, Participation, And Poverty: Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya by Barbara P. Thomas 9780367283742
RRP: £135.00£111.70Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help... -
Power In Modern Societies by Marvin E. Olsen 9780367284077
RRP: £125.00£103.58An extensively revised and updated new edition of Olsen's Power in Societies, this book contains carefully selected and edited writings on the exercise of social power in contemporary societies. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social... -
That Complex Whole: Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior by Lee Cronk 9780367318215
RRP: £135.00£117.28When evolutionary biology stretched out a tentacle called sociobiology and began to probe human behavior back in the 1970s, there was no room for neutrality. Advocates of the new science hailed the dawn of a new era in our understanding of human... -
Starting With Foucault: An Introduction To Geneaolgy by C. G. Prado 9780367318031
RRP: £130.00£112.11Michel Foucault had a great influence upon a wide range of disciplines, and his work has been widely interpreted and is frequently referred to, but it is often difficult for beginners to find their way into the complexities of his thought. This is... -
Sociology And Nature: Social Action In Context by Raymond Murphy 9780367317997
RRP: £130.00£112.51Sociology as if nature did not matter has been the sociological expression of modern societies negligent of the processes of nature. In response to this ?ecological blindness,? Raymond Murphy examines the limitations of sociology that have resulted from... -
Social Rules: Origin; Character; Logic; Change by David Braybrooke 9780367317980
RRP: £135.00£117.28This collection is a pioneering effort to bring together in fruitful interaction the two dominant perspectives on social rules. One, shared by philosophers, lawyers, anthropologists, and sociologists, directly invites formalization by a logic of rules... -
Screening The Sacred: Religion, Myth, And Ideology In Popular American Film by Joel Martin 9780367317904
RRP: £135.00£117.28What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky, and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes, borne out of male... -
Organ Substitution Technology: Ethical, Legal, And Public Policy Issues by Deborah Mathieu 9780367281991
RRP: £135.00£111.70This book describes and assesses some of the more important difficulties and defects in the current utilization of organ substitution technology, dealing with the major ethical, legal, and public policy issues of organ substitution.Book InformationISBN... -
Opera In The Flesh: Sexuality In Operatic Performance by Sam Abel 9780367281953
RRP: £135.00£111.70Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies... -
On The Margins Of Art Worlds by Larry Gross 9780367281861
RRP: £135.00£111.70During the late 1980s, the near-worship of artistic genius produced auction sales of works by Vmcent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso for tens of millions of dollars, over $15 million for a painting by Jasper Johns, and record prices for works by many other... -
Reel Arguments: Film, Philosophy, And Social Criticism by Andrew Light 9780367317638
RRP: £86.99£75.54Reel Arguments collects an integrated series of essays addressing the role of film as social criticism. By looking at films and the creators of such films as Alice in the Cities, Enemy of the State, The Conversation, Falling Down, City of Hope, and... -
Recognizing The Latino Resurgence In U.s. Religion: The Emmaus Paradigm by Ana Maria Diaz-stevens 9780367317591
RRP: £135.00£117.68Emmaus is the biblical episode that recounts how the disciples, who had been unable to recognize the resurrected Jesus even as he traveled with them, finally come to know him as their Lord through his inspirational conversation. In this major new work... -
Race, Gender, And Discrimination At Work by Samuel Cohn 9780367317560
RRP: £135.00£117.28In Race and Gender Discrimination at Work Samuel Cohns provides a fascinating, unorthodox account of the causes of discrimination at work. The book is packed with statistics, yet witty; rigorous, yet light. Cohn introduces readers to the fundamental... -
Race, Ethnicity, And Nationality In The United States: Toward The Twenty-first Century by Paul Wong 9780367317553
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book provides a rich, multi-disciplinary approach to the study of race, ethnicity, and nationality. Taken as a whole, the contributors?consisting of both established and relatively newer scholars?have written a collection of essays which are... -
Race And Place: Equity Issues In Urban America by John W. Frazier 9780367317546
RRP: £135.00£117.28Racism, racial equity, and the race-place connections related to racial inequalities in the U.S. are the major themes of this book. The long history of U.S. White racism toward Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians is deeply rooted in the political,...