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The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance

The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences:...

Author: Joy Y. Zhang ,  Saheli Datta Burton
ISBN: 9789395474191
Format: Hardback
$103.50

By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation for...  Read More >>

Unraveling Management: Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs

Unraveling Management: Its Institutions, Practices and...

Author: James G. Carrier
ISBN: 9781805396925
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are...  Read More >>

From Triads to Pentads: Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of N.J. Allen

From Triads to Pentads: Modelling Myth and Kinship in...

Author: Robert Parkin
ISBN: 9781805398943
Format: Hardback
$269.10

N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away...  Read More >>

‘You Don’t Know’: Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

‘You Don’t Know’: Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers'...

Author: Jacob A. E. Nielsen
ISBN: 9781805398974
Format: Hardback
$269.10

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives....  Read More >>

Haunting Ruins: Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

Haunting Ruins: Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay...

Author: Valentina Gamberi ,  Chiara Calzana
ISBN: 9781805398851
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic...  Read More >>

Correlative Archaeology: Rethinking Archaeological Theory

Correlative Archaeology: Rethinking Archaeological Theory...

Author: Fumi Arakawa ,  Jim Enote
ISBN: 9781793643803
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Fumi Arakawa, a Japanese scholar who was trained in Western archaeology, uses correlative thinking practices, which...  Read More >>

Neopragmatismus – inverse Landschaft – (karto)graphische Darstellung. Von der Kritik zur Weiterentwicklung

Neopragmatismus – inverse Landschaft – (karto)graphische...

Author: Olaf Kühne ,  Karsten Berr
ISBN: 9783658460709
Format: Paperback
$155.22

Diese Auffassung ignoriert die Kontingenz von Landschaft, die sich nicht allein in Vergangenheit und Zukunft, sondern...  Read More >>

Groundwater Politics: Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance

Groundwater Politics: Advanced Extractivism and Slow...

Author: Sally Babidge
ISBN: 9781805398820
Format: Hardback
$269.10

The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama...  Read More >>

The Asceticism of Emotions: An Eastern Orthodox Approach to Inclusion

The Asceticism of Emotions: An Eastern Orthodox Approach...

Author: Petre Maican
ISBN: 9783031837784
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book delves into the profound challenges posed by the negative emotions—fear, pity, and disgust—that persons...  Read More >>

Georgian Internally Displaced People: The Formation of a Social Identity

Georgian Internally Displaced People: The Formation...

Author: Hazar Ege Gürsoy Erdenay
ISBN: 9783031822544
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the construction of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) identity as a social group in Georgia,...  Read More >>

The Paradox of Mental Health: Toward Systemic and Social Constructionist Therapies

The Paradox of Mental Health: Toward Systemic and Social...

Author: Raphael J. Becvar ,  Dorothy Stroh Becvar
ISBN: 9798881802240
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Uses systemic theories to challenge how the medical model is used to treat mental illness today, encouraging practitioners...  Read More >>

The Politics of Football in China: Institutional Change and Political Steering Under Xi Jinping

The Politics of Football in China: Institutional Change...

Author: Ilker Gündoğan
ISBN: 9783031746000
Format: Hardback
$284.60

In recent years, football has become an important field for institutional change and political steering in China....  Read More >>

Echoes of the Dreamtime: Unveiling the Richness of Australian Indigenous Culture

Echoes of the Dreamtime: Unveiling the Richness of Australian...

Author: Anshuman Mishra
ISBN: 9798312490749
Format: Paperback
$39.57

""Echoes of the Dreamtime: Unveiling the Richness of Australian Indigenous Culture and Traditions"" offers an in-depth...  Read More >>

Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography III: SIS 2024, Short Papers, Contributed Sessions 1

Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography...

Author: Alessio Pollice ,  Paolo Mariani
ISBN: 9783031644306
Format: Hardback
$517.47

The topics covered include, but are not limited to, statistical theory and methods, sampling theory, Bayesian statistics,...  Read More >>

The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development

The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories...

Author: Richard M. Lerner ,  Gary Greenberg
ISBN: 9781032702933
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This innovative and thought-provoking book integrates both new, authored material and reprints of existing literature...  Read More >>

Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency

Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency...

Author: Owen Abbott
ISBN: 9783031751806
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides an interdisciplinary series of essays on key social theorists of morality. It thus seeks to integrate...  Read More >>

Unearthing Forgotten Values: Toward a Meaningful Archaeological Practice

Unearthing Forgotten Values: Toward a Meaningful Archaeological...

Author: Sean P. Connaughton
ISBN: 9780774881043
Format: Hardback
$204.41

Explores the disrespectful and ultimately unethical nature of much commercial archaeology and proposes a praxis...  Read More >>

Teaching and Learning About Religious Diversity in the Past and Present: Beyond Stereotypes

Teaching and Learning About Religious Diversity in the...

Author: Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse ,  John Maiden
ISBN: 9783031758676
Format: Hardback
$388.10

This edited book explores examples of different ways in which societies and individuals have dealt with the concepts...  Read More >>

Jews and Muslims in German Print Media: Integration and Multiculturalism Versus Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Jews and Muslims in German Print Media: Integration...

Author: Katharina F. Gallant ,  Jolanda van der Noll
ISBN: 9783031469640
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book uses a comparative research design to analyze the reporting on the Jewish minority and the Muslim minority...  Read More >>

Quality of Life in Argentina: Maps, Indexes and Regional Analysis from 2010

Quality of Life in Argentina: Maps, Indexes and Regional...

Author: Claudia Andrea Mikkelsen ,  Santiago Linares
ISBN: 9783031482144
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book studies inequalities in the quality of life of the Argentine population at the regional level. These dimensions...  Read More >>

Custodians of Salvation: Last Rites and Cremation in Banaras

Custodians of Salvation: Last Rites and Cremation in...

Author: Dr Sarita K. Kashyap
ISBN: 9789361319105
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book presents an anthropological investigation into the lives of the Dom community, who have historically managed...  Read More >>

Hochbegabt? Oder einfach anders?: Besondere Kinder und Jugendliche besser verstehen

Hochbegabt? Oder einfach anders?: Besondere Kinder und...

Author: Sebastian Stranz
ISBN: 9783769325713
Format: Paperback
$94.78

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Encountering the World with I-Docs: Interactive Documentary as a Research Method

Encountering the World with I-Docs: Interactive Documentary...

Author: Ella Harris (Freelance researcher)
ISBN: 9781447374176
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This book examines the values of interactive documentary as a social research method, exploring their exciting potential...  Read More >>

Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore

Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in...

Author: Ruth E. Toulson
ISBN: 9780295753331
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, anthropologist and trained mortician Toulson demonstrates...  Read More >>

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