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Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden by Michele Micheletti 9781138267534
RRP: £39.99£35.06Sweden, as many other prosperous nations, is presently reassessing its national goals, political culture and collective identity. Newer groups in society are demanding equal treatment, and others whose struggles for recognition are older and unwon, are... -
Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by Pauline Wilson Wiessner 9781571818713
RRP: £99.00£80.23The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears... -
Immigration, Unemployment and Domestic Welfare by Alexander Kemnitz 9783161489945
RRP: £89.40£88.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161489945Author Alexander KemnitzFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 354g -
Profiling Property Crimes by David V. Canter 9781138731011
RRP: £120.00£104.01This title was first published in 2000. Each of these commissioned papers explores the varieties of different crimes against property. The actions that differentiate types of arson, burglary, workplace crime and robbery are examined to provide insights... -
Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923: Trade and Travel, People and Politics by Shirley Ardener 9781571813114
RRP: £27.95£22.58The 1880's were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is... -
Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr 9781925498585
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925498585Author Michael McGirrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing -
Invisible Weapons: Infiltrating Resistance and Defeating Movements by Marcus Board 9780197605233
RRP: £23.49£19.97Radicalism is an inclusive political tradition that lives on in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). Key radical principles include empowering people to advocate for themselves and their communities, the idea that power must embrace accountability, and a... -
Tourism: Between Place and Performance by Simon Coleman 9781571817457
RRP: £99.00£79.83Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with... -
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia by Shinji Yamashita 9781571812582
RRP: £107.00£86.57Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic... -
The Live Art of Sociology by Cath Lambert 9781138932326
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Live Art of Sociology attends to the importance of 'the live' in contemporary social and political life. Taking existing work in live sociology as a starting point, this book considers some of its aspirations through unique empirical investigations... -
Ferry Services in Europe by Funda Yercan 9781138311350
RRP: £96.99£84.05Published in 1999, this work is mainly related to ferry services and operations in a number of marketplaces in Europe. Ferry services in the the Atlantic Arc to the West, the Baltic Sea to the North and the Eastern Mediterranean to the Southeast of... -
Riverbank Erosion Hazards and Channel Morphodynamics: A Perspective of Fluvial Geomorphology by Sourav Dey 9781032233079
RRP: £39.99£35.06• This book deals with modern scientific methods and techniques to analyse fluvial process. • It highlights the concept of river channel stability and instability using channel morphology and demonstrates field techniques to assess channel morphology. •... -
The Body, Authenticity and Racism by Lindsey Garratt 9781138644878
RRP: £135.00£117.28The modern world may believe that authenticity empowers us to be our true selves. However, is this really true for all people? Would authenticity be accepted by others if it does not fit within the conceptions of those who embody "nationally... -
Emergent Complexity: The Evolution of Intermediate Societies by Jeanne E. Arnold 9781879621213
RRP: £132.00£106.00Serious interest in the evolution and dynamics of intermediate societies has grown by leaps and bounds during the past decade. The purpose of this volume is to suggest new ways to model the many stimuli and processes by which cultural complexity emerges,... -
The Body of Knowledge: Fieldwork and Conceptualization in Social Inquiry by Kornelia Engert 9781032214269
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents a vivid and close-up view of social science researchers engaged in fieldwork, in discussions with colleagues, and in writing. Adopting an ethnographic approach inspired by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the author pursues... -
Reframing Immigrant Resistance: Alliances, Conflicts, and Racialization in Italy by Teresa Cappiali 9781032200170
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book focuses on the political participation and grassroots... -
The Diffusion and Social Implications of MOOCs: A Comparative Study of the USA and Europe by Valentina Goglio 9781032185538
RRP: £39.99£35.06Chapter 9 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.Since their first... -
Aging in the Context of Urbanization: Social Determinants for the Depression of the Chinese Older Population by Fan Yang 9781032164854
RRP: £19.99£17.69As China has undergone rapid urbanization and population aging in the past few decades, improving the welfare of older people in rural areas has become an ever more pressing issue. This title is the first book-length work to examine the influence of... -
Ethics for Evaluation: Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good” by Rob D. van den Berg 9781032161433
RRP: £39.99£35.06In Ethics for Evaluation the diverse perspectives on ethical guidance in evaluation are untangled and ordered in a theoretical framework focusing on evaluations doing no harm, tackling bad and doing good.Divided into four parts a diverse group of subject... -
The 1947 Partition in The East: Trends and Trajectories by Subhasri Ghosh 9781032114569
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the experiences of people affected by the Partition of British India and princely states in 1947 through first-person accounts, memoirs, archival material, literature, and cinema. It focuses on the displacement, violence and trauma of... -
Life as a Geographer in India by Anu Kapur 9780367713782
RRP: £39.99£35.06This is the first book which provides an engaging and insightful narrative on the life of a geographer in India. The author introspects on her own experiences and engagements with the discipline and explores the life and works of twenty-four other... -
Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy by Naila Kabeer 9781138662636
RRP: £47.99£41.81The vast majority of the world's working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social... -
The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961 by Amit Das Gupta 9780367633417
RRP: £39.99£35.46First monograph investigating careers and mind-set of Indian diplomats from the colonial into the post-colonial period based on archival sources – looks at British India’s policy vis-à-vis Indians overseas by looking into the work of the Department of... -
Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political & Economic Struggles by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara 9781137541086
RRP: £89.99£50.87This book contributes to a broadened theorisation of journalism by exploring the intricacies of African journalism and its connections with the material realities that underpin the profession on the continent. It pulls together theoretically driven... -
Directions Of Change & Modernization Theory, Research, And Realities by Mustafa O Attir 9780367018641
RRP: £135.00£117.68After a period of relative confidence about the future of modernizing societies, scholars are now questioning with renewed urgency the directions of the modernization trend. This book, the result of nearly a decade of collaborative efforts by scholars in... -
Marrying & Burying: Rites Of Passage In A Man's Life by Ronald L. Grimes 9780367009984
RRP: £135.00£117.68Significant life passages are marked by ritual in virtually every culture. Weddings and funerals are just two of the most institutionalized yet troubled ones in our own society. A wide variety of rites, both traditional and invented, also mark birth,... -
Children and Social Security by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781138722248
RRP: £29.99£26.64This title was first published in 2003. There is growing anxiety about the consequences of social and economic change for children in industrial countries. It is in this context that the Federation for International Studies in Social Security chose... -
Experiments in Environmental Economics: Volume 1 by Jason F. Shogren 9781138717336
RRP: £58.99£51.08This title was first published in 2003.Over the decades, experiential methods have become an established research tool in environmental economics. Economists working in this area have realised that experimental methods from economics and other... -
Project Management A-Z: A Compendium of Project Management Techniques and How to Use Them: A Compendium of Project Management Techniques and How to Use Them by Alan Wren 9781138716490
RRP: £32.99£30.16This title was first published in 2003. What does project authorization involve and how should you seek it? What is earned value and how are the calculations made? How do you select the appropriate method for handing over a project and what are the... -
Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies by Alain Touraine 9781138710931
RRP: £29.99£27.04This title was first published in 2003. The "Red Mafia" in Russia have become the subject of increasing international interest and considerable misinterpretation. After well-received editions in Russian, French and Italian, Anton Oleinik's study of... -
Innovative Employment Initiatives by Bernd Marin 9781138634183
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2000. The result of an international meeting organized by the European Centre, this book reports from economists, social scientists and experts from government and inter-governmental institutions who came together to... -
Sudanese Memoirs: Template Subtitle by Herbert Palmer 9780367178185
RRP: £105.00£91.26Published in 1967: Sudanese Memoirs is a foremost contribution to the ethnological and historical literature of Western Africa. In three volumes, they comprise a large number of translations from Arabic manuscripts whcih were mostly collected in the... -
Diagramming the Social: Relational Method in Research by Russell Dudley-Smith 9780367494872
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book challenges the hyper-production and proliferation of concepts in modern social research. It presents a distinctive methodological response to this tendency through an exploration of one of the most underappreciated yet widely deployed... -
Squeezing Birth into Working Life: Household Panel Data Analyses Comparing Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and The Netherlands by Cécile Wetzels 9780367198824
RRP: £21.99£19.34This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly, young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So, where does birth fit into a young woman's curriculum vitae? This book takes a welfare state comparative... -
The New British: The Impact of Culture and Community on Young Pakistanis by Ikhlaq Din 9780367603922
RRP: £39.99£35.06Providing empirical evidence on the lives of young British-born Pakistanis, The New British also reveals fascinating insights into the Pakistani community more generally. Using Bradford as a case study, Ikhlaq Din focuses on the relationship between... -
Science And Technology In A Changing International Order: The United Nations Conference On Science And Technology For Development by Volker Rittberger 9780367302139
RRP: £39.99£35.06The authors of this volume review the issues involved in financing the development of endogenous scientific and technological capabilities in Third World countries and examine United Nations global conferences with regard to the options they offer for... -
Viewing the World Ecologically by Marvin E. Olsen 9780367215774
RRP: £43.99£38.44During the last 20 years, the American public has become increasingly aware of environmental problems and resource scarcities. This study focuses on the rapid emergence of an ecological social paradigm, which appears to be replacing the technological... -
Cancer Risk: Assessing And Reducing The Dangers In Our Society by Office Of Technology Assessment 9780367019327
RRP: £135.00£117.28Congressional interest in cancer is long standing and continuing. Programs in basic cancer research, and in treatment and prevention of the disease are now complemented by some two dozen laws directed at reducing exposures to cancer-causing substances... -
Toward Understanding Climate Change: The J. O. Fletcher Lectures On Problems And Prospects Of Climate Analysis And Forecasting by Uwe Radok 9780367214616
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book illustrates the intricacies and interdependencies of our climate system, the sea ice of the polar regions, and the chaotic weather systems of middle latitudes. It discusses the objective evaluation of climate forecasts and the problems of... -
State of Fear in a Liquid World by Carlo Bordoni 9780367607463
RRP: £21.99£19.34This book examines the insecurity that besets our lives in the contemporary world, whether as a result of natural disasters, human negligence or, more recently, threats to security in the form of terrorist activity, which itself gives rise to new fears:...