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  • Informal Education, Childhood and Youth
    Peter Kraftl
    This collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge research on informal education - that is, learning practices that emphasise dialogue and learning through everyday life. For the first time, it highlights the way in which geography matters to informal education practices. Through a range of examples from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and ...
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    133,82 €

  • Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation
    Arcus Foundation
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    59,10 €

  • Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation
    Arcus Foundation
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    158,58 €

  • Co-habiting with Ghosts
    Caron Lipman
    This book sets out to explore the questions posed by the reality of living in a ’haunted home’ and attends to the ways in which households in England and Wales understand their experience of haunting in relation to ideas of subjectivity, gender, materiality, memory, knowledge and belief. It explores home as a place both dynamic and differentiated, illuminating the complexity of...
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    254,51 €

  • Relational Autonomy and Family Law
    Jonathan Herring
    This book explores the importance of autonomy in family law. It argues that traditional understandings of autonomy are inappropriate in the family law context and instead recommends the use of relational autonomy. The book starts by explaining how autonomy has historically been understood, before exploring the problems with its use in family law. It then sets out the model of r...
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    66,58 €

  • Watching Arabic Television in Europe
    Christina Slade / Ingrid Volkmer
    Anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise in Europe, focused on Islam and on Arabs, and manifested in increasingly rigorous immigration regimes. What are Arabic Europeans watching on television and how does it affect their identities as Europeans? New quantitative and qualitative evidence from seven capitals shows that, far from being isolated in ethnic media ghettoes, they are c...
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    65,66 €

  • Rural Change in Australia
    John Connell
    This book provides a contemporary perspective on rapidly evolving population, economic and environmental changes in ’rural and regional Australia’, itself a significant concept. Bringing together a range of empirical studies, the book builds on established rural studies themes such as population change, economic restructuring and globalization in agriculture but links such chan...
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    254,28 €

  • Shot in the Head a Sister's Memoir, a Brother's Struggle
    Katherine Flannery Dering
    This true story brings to life the experiences of one large family before and after the onset of mental illness. Using a mix of narrative, photographs, emails and pictures of various cherished objects, the book takes the reader into the author's world of caring for her younger brother Paul, who suffered from schizophrenia and then lung cancer. 'powerful and emotional' - Ann Clo...
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    14,65 €

  • Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition
    Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on t...
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    184,36 €

  • We the Cosmopolitans
    The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as t...
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    184,53 €

  • Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
    Jacqueline Kneorr / Jacqueline Knorr
    Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole gro...
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    184,33 €

  • Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies
    The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon social, environmental, economic, political, and cultural life in countries of o...
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    108,53 €

  • Imagined Globalization
    Néstor García Canclini
    A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Néstor García Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries. In this book, newly available in English, he considers how globalization is imagined by artists, academi...
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    53,31 €

  • Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo
    Mohammed Tabishat
    InThe Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo: Persons, Bodies, and Organs, Mohammed Tabishat uses anthropological descriptive methods and discourse analytic perspectives to focus on health care practices in a holistic fashion aimed at preserving and improving life in contemporary Cairo. Tabishat employs therapeutic data as a complex index mirroring the existing relations of ...
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    132,05 €

  • Domesticating Youth
    Sophie Roche
    Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a 'youth bulge' increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward s...
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    184,05 €

  • Making and Growing
    Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts and the latter as organisms, the book calls this distinction into question,...
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    254,46 €

  • A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600 1960
    Bruce S. Hall / Bruce SHall
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    50,22 €

  • Understanding Multiculturalism
    Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its relativizing, particularist, and essentializing implications...
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    184,24 €

  • Focus Groups
    David W. Stewart / Prem N. Shamdasani
    The fully updated Third Edition of Focus Groups: Theory and Practice offers a unique blend of focus group theory and practice in a single, easy-to-read source. It provides systematic treatment to the design, conduct, and interpretation of focus group data within the context of social science research and theory. Known for accessibility and step-by-step guidance, comprehensive t...
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    85,46 €

  • Space, Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation
    The discovery of new cell types, such as grid and time cells, in the hippocampus has been accompanied by major anatomical and theoretical insights in the recent years. This book provides comprehensive, up-to-date information about the hippocampal formation and especially the neural basis of episodic memory, spatial location (the formation of the cogni...
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    271,13 €

  • Frozen in Time
    William S. Marshall
    Until now much of the early history of ice hockey in Scotland has been neglected or forgotten - metaphorically frozen in time, lying buried under the ice. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive and social history of both the Club and International game in the country from the late 19th century up to 1940. It aims to restore Scottish ice hockey to its right and proper pla...
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    28,81 €

  • Better to Marry
    David J. Engelsma / David JEngelsma
    Better to Marry provides straightforward, practical instruction for single and married believers alike, taken directly from the classic Bible passages on sex and marriage. Two appendices treat the remarriage and prohibition of the remarriage of the "innocent party." ...
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    18,37 €

  • Life Interrupted
    Denise Brennan
    Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At once scholarly and ...
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    44,29 €

  • New CEOs
    G. William Domhoff / GWilliam Domhoff / Richard L. Zweigenhaft / Richard LZweigenhaft
    The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. ...
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    51,54 €

  • Arab Spring
    Kjetil Fosshagen
    The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, and relationships. This volume delves beneath the seemingly chaotic nature of events to...
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    19,01 €

  • Living in the Shadow of the Too-Good Mother Archetype
    Patti Ashley
    LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE TOO-GOOD MOTHER ARCHETYPE is a journey into the heart and soul of mothering. It takes you to places that have remained hidden due to out-dated beliefs about what it means to be a good mother. The book reveals the truth about being a good enough mother and dispels the myths of being a perfect parent.Based on 32 years of working in pediatric, mental he...
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    16,56 €

  • Practical Ethnography
    Sam Ladner
    This book is a robust guide to practicing ethnographic research in the private sector. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Kids on YouTube
    Patricia G Lange
    Kids on YouTube goes beyond the hype about 'digital youth', using fine-grained ethnographic studies to describe the collaborative social networks kids use to negotiate identities and develop digital literacy. ...
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    267,91 €

  • Practical Ethnography
    Sam Ladner
    This book is a robust guide to practicing ethnographic research in the private sector. ...
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    66,65 €

  • American Afterlife
    Kate Sweeney
    Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, 'You can make mummies with it!' while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spe...
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    22,61 €


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