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Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought: An Anthology

Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought:...

Author: Iván Márquez
ISBN: 9780742539914
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This anthology offers the first serious, broad-ranging collection of English translations of significant Latin American...  Read More >>

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production...

Author: Steve Jones ,  Axel Bruns
ISBN: 9780820488660
Format: Paperback
$92.27

We – the users turned creators and distributors of content – are TIME’s Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge’s Advertising...  Read More >>

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production...

Author: Steve Jones ,  Axel Bruns
ISBN: 9780820488677
Format: Hardback
$439.03

We – the users turned creators and distributors of content – are TIME’s Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge’s Advertising...  Read More >>

Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development

Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development...

Author: S. Khan ,  S. Kazmi
ISBN: 9781349538911
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide...  Read More >>

Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development

Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development...

Author: S. Khan ,  S. Kazmi
ISBN: 9781403981967
Format: Hardback
$237.60

This book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide...  Read More >>

Nationalism, Social Theory and Durkheim

Nationalism, Social Theory and Durkheim

Author: J. Dingley
ISBN: 9781349545742
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Ethno-national and religious identity and violence dominate modern politics, from Northern Ireland to terrorism...  Read More >>

Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Games Without Frontiers - War Without Tears

Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Games...

Author: A. Jahn-Sudmann ,  R. Stockmann
ISBN: 9780230545441
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Internationally renowned media and literature scholars, social scientists, game designers and artists explore the...  Read More >>

Transformative Learning for a New Worldview: Learning to Think Differently

Transformative Learning for a New Worldview: Learning...

Author: M. Jackson
ISBN: 9780230553507
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that...  Read More >>

Nationalism, Social Theory and Durkheim

Nationalism, Social Theory and Durkheim

Author: J. Dingley
ISBN: 9781403996794
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Ethno-national and religious identity and violence dominate modern politics, from Northern Ireland to terrorism...  Read More >>

Emotions in Command: Biology, Bureaucracy, and Cultural Evolution

Emotions in Command: Biology, Bureaucracy, and Cultural...

Author: Frank K. Salter ,  Frank K. Salter
ISBN: 9781412806718
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Reviews the social science literature showing the place of ethological methods and concepts, and aspects of the...  Read More >>

The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States

The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals...

Author: David Haney
ISBN: 9781592137138
Format: Hardback
$116.03

An explanation for sociology's isolation from American society, this book introduces readers to such luminaries...  Read More >>

Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power

Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power

Author: Shira Tarrant, Ph.D. (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
ISBN: 9780415956574
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A collection of essays written by and about pro-feminist men. These essays tackle the issues of feminism, growing...  Read More >>

Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power

Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power

Author: Shira Tarrant, Ph.D. (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
ISBN: 9780415956567
Format: Hardback
$369.60

A collection of essays written by and about pro-feminist men. These essays tackle the issues of feminism, growing...  Read More >>

Contested Individualization: Debates about Contemporary Personhood

Contested Individualization: Debates about Contemporary...

Author: C. Howard
ISBN: 9781403977700
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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Hawking Hits on the Information Highway: The Challenge of Online Drug Sales for Law Enforcement

Hawking Hits on the Information Highway: The Challenge...

Author: Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. ,  Laura L. Finley
ISBN: 9780820486000
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This book examines the phenomenon of online drug and drug paraphernalia sales, drug recipes, and information about...  Read More >>

The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Author: Thorstein Veblen ,  Martha Banta
ISBN: 9780192806840
Format: Paperback
$18.95

This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices...  Read More >>

Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities

Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease: Perspectives...

Author: Peter L. Twohig ,  Vera Kalitzkus
ISBN: 9789042024052
Format: Paperback
$125.40

The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the...  Read More >>

Transformative Learning for a New Worldview: Learning to Think Differently

Transformative Learning for a New Worldview: Learning...

Author: M. Jackson
ISBN: 9781349363254
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that...  Read More >>

Marxism and Criminological Theory: A Critique and a Toolkit

Marxism and Criminological Theory: A Critique and a...

Author: Mark Cowling
ISBN: 9781349523368
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This volume looks at Marxist thought in criminology, the work of Willem Bonger, Georg Rusche and Otto Kircheimer,...  Read More >>

Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies

Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies

Author: S. Owen
ISBN: 9781349360956
Format: Paperback
$116.41

In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's...  Read More >>

Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Games Without Frontiers - War Without Tears

Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Games...

Author: A. Jahn-Sudmann ,  R. Stockmann
ISBN: 9781349360932
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Internationally renowned media and literature scholars, social scientists, game designers and artists explore the...  Read More >>

From World Order to Global Disorder: States, Markets, and Dissent

From World Order to Global Disorder: States, Markets,...

Author: Dorval Brunelle ,  Richard Howard
ISBN: 9780774813617
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Demonstrates the profound effect of globalization on relations between the state, civil society, and markets, as...  Read More >>

Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale

Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and...

Author: Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi ,  Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
ISBN: 9780252032677
Format: Hardback
$132.00

A tribute to Jane C Goodale, this work discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring,...  Read More >>

Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative

Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping...

Author: Barbara Heron
ISBN: 9781554580019
Format: Paperback
$93.50

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The McDonaldization of Social Work

The McDonaldization of Social Work

Author: Donna Dustin
ISBN: 9780754646396
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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