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Framing Ageing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research

Framing Ageing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities...

Author: Julia Langbein ,  Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350341418
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Framing Ageing, available open access, addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want...  Read More >>

The Trans-Australia Wonderland

The Trans-Australia Wonderland

Author: A.G. Bolam
ISBN: 9781923024694
Format: Paperback
$24.95

The first book written on the natural history of life on the Nullabor Plain, was written by station-master A. G....  Read More >>

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly...

Author: Max Jack (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions)
ISBN: 9780197773796
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. Embracing a...  Read More >>

The History of Basque Music

The History of Basque Music

Author: Josu Okinena
ISBN: 9781949805147
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Provides a history of Basque music from medieval times to present, exploring jazz as well as female muscians.  Read More >>

The Secular Care of the Self: Discipline and Its Discontents across the Protestant Atlantic

The Secular Care of the Self: Discipline and Its Discontents...

Author: Ian Whitmarsh
ISBN: 9780826365910
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Offers an unorthodox thesis: the modern secular desire toward health is founded in a Protestant congregationalism...  Read More >>

Tree of Tradition, The: The traditions and influences that have shaped the works of writers and thinkers in all civilisations, including Nicholas Hagger's 60 Universalist works

Tree of Tradition, The: The traditions and influences...

Author: Nicholas Hagger
ISBN: 9781803414263
Format: Paperback
$41.37

The traditions behind all disciplines in which writers have written, and the traditions and influences behind Nicholas...  Read More >>

Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique

Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and...

Author: Ilan Zvi Baron
ISBN: 9781399536967
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Combining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish...  Read More >>

Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

Author: Cathy Stanton
ISBN: 9781625348050
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice

Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice...

Author: Emily C. Van Alst ,  Carlton Shield Chief Gover
ISBN: 9780813080338
Format: Paperback
$237.60

Highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm...  Read More >>

We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea

We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring...

Author: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9780816548149
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Written in a clear and relatable style, We Stay the Same combines ethnographic and ecological research to show how...  Read More >>

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly...

Author: Max Jack (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions)
ISBN: 9780197686911
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. Embracing a...  Read More >>

Fiestas in Laredo Volume 30: Matachines, Quinceañeras, and George Washington's Birthday

Fiestas in Laredo Volume 30: Matachines, Quinceañeras,...

Author: Norma E. Cantú
ISBN: 9781957720005
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider’s perspective...  Read More >>

Central American Counterpoetics: Diaspora and Rememory

Central American Counterpoetics: Diaspora and Rememory...

Author: Karina Alma
ISBN: 9780816552573
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Connecting past and present, Central American Counterpoetics proposes the concepts of rememory and counterpoetics...  Read More >>

Birds through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands

Birds through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on...

Author: Dennis Gaffin
ISBN: 9780691250847
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An intimate and personal account of the profound roles birds play in the lives of some Indigenous people For many...  Read More >>

Anthropological Investigations in Contemporary India: A cross-cultural perspective: India's Foundational Brushstrokes

Anthropological Investigations in Contemporary India:...

Author: C J Sonowal ,  Milonjyoti Borgohain
ISBN: 9789356214682
Format: Paperback
$50.13

"""Within this book, readers will find insightful theoretical analyses and detailed micro-level studies that broaden...  Read More >>

Chronologie de l'Histoire de Chine

Chronologie de l'Histoire de Chine

Author: Cai Meibiao
ISBN: 9781636676173
Format: Hardback
$290.27

Ce livre r�pertorie les �v�nements importants et les personnages historiques qui ont fa�onn� la Chine et retrace...  Read More >>

HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South

HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy...

Author: Elizabeth Mills (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781529221916
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, this book highlights...  Read More >>

Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants: America’s Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics

Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants:...

Author: William R. LaFleur (formerly University of Pennsylvania, USA) ,  Edward R. Drott (Sophia University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781350255074
Format: Paperback
$59.99

William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential...  Read More >>

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good...

Author: Elena Borisova
ISBN: 9781800086654
Format: Paperback
$77.63

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The Politics of Urban Potentiality: Spatial Patterns of Emancipatory Commoning

The Politics of Urban Potentiality: Spatial Patterns...

Author: Professor Stavros Stavrides (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) ,  Massimo De Angelis
ISBN: 9781350413948
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"""An original exploration of the emancipatory potential of urban commons, drawing on research in Latin American...  Read More >>

Cultural Selection

Cultural Selection

Author: Tim Lewens (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009539098
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element argues that cultural selection is not necessary for the explanation of cultural adaptation; it shows...  Read More >>

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good...

Author: Elena Borisova
ISBN: 9781800086661
Format: Hardback
$129.38

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