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  • The Story of Bucks County
    Ray O'Brien
    Bucks, just Bucks please! Bucks County, Pennsylvania is a high profile area with national name recogn ition. It lies at the heart of the great northeastern Megalopolis between New York City, Princeton, and Philadelphia. It is a microcosm of what has become the American dream. Paradise, nightmare, or something other -- read, and then decide. The Story of Bucks County is richly e...
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    26,63 €

  • Culture and Eurocentrism
    Ismail / Qadri Ismail
    A postcolonialist reading of the deployment of the concept of culture in literature, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies. It argues that modernity as understood in the Anglo-US episteme is structured around eurocentrism. ...
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    61,34 €

  • Narratives of Globalization
    The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life. ...
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    177,69 €

  • Global Community?
    Explores the range and depth of work currently being done in the humanities and social sciences on the conceptual, normative and empirical aspects of global community. ...
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    187,32 €

  • Global Community?
    Explores the range and depth of work currently being done in the humanities and social sciences on the conceptual, normative and empirical aspects of global community. ...
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    61,41 €

  • Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar
    Akbar Keshodkar
    Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar examines how Zanzibaris are struggling to move through the local landscape in the post-socialist era dominated by tourism. Using the theoretical framework of movement, this book highlights how Zanzibaris move and develop various dispositions to re-articulate their identities. This book also investigates how notions of ustaara...
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    63,89 €

  • Narratives of Globalization
    The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life. ...
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    58,71 €

  • Broken Promises of Globalization
    Shahidur Rahman
    Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry contributes to the contemporary debate on the limits and possibilities of globalization to the global south. It examines how a Least Developed Country is dealing with both domestic and external pressures in its response to neo-liberalization. ...
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    79,54 €

  • Navigating Power
    Gelaye Debebe
    Navigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajoland by Gelaye Debebe uses data of an inter-organizational relationship between a Navajo and Anglo organization to show how concerns about political inequality trump cultural differences. Debebe examines how interactions among individuals representing culturally dissimilar and politically unequal groups impact task coordinati...
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    64,31 €

  • Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America
    This unique text examines a range of ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. Each rich case study offers a brief historical overview of the group’s immigration experience and settlement patterns and discusses how these communities have transformed—and been transformed by—the places in which they have settled. ...
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    106,56 €

  • Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders
    Ben Gook
    Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders details, through empirical and theoretical exposition, how the national unity of Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall conceals persistent division in the lives of eastern and western Germans. ...
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    186,88 €

  • Special Interest Society
    James R. Hudson / James RHudson
    Membership-based organizations play a central role in our society yet those studying voluntary associations fail to recognize their distinctive characteristics as their impact is profound and our understanding of them severely limited. By analyzing over 400 published histories, this book breaks new ground revealing why they emerge, what they do to shape nearly every profession,...
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    63,65 €

  • Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders
    Ben Gook
    Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders details, through empirical and theoretical exposition, how the national unity of Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall conceals persistent division in the lives of eastern and western Germans. ...
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    60,98 €

  • Stories of Home
    Home is viewed as a space and place and associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being and moving in the world. This collection explores how we experience home and what home says about the selves we have become. This book is of interest and use to students and scholars in the fields of communication studies, cultural studies, performance studies, geography, gen...
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    133,21 €

  • The Knowledge Plexus
    George Chorafakis
    This book is a collection of 5 essays on the economic geography of technological knowledge. Their common threads are: (i) the quest for a new paradigm in economic geography, termed ’systemic’, as an alternative to the neoclassical, based on the epistemological premise of emergence and the theories of evolution and complexity; and (ii) the intent to explain the process of techno...
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    65,82 €

  • Apology to a Whale
    Cecile Pineda
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    16,69 €

  • Private Anti-Piracy Navies
    John J. Jr. Pitney / John J. Pitney / John JJrPitney / John-Clark Levin
    Private Anti-Piracy Navies assesses the historical context, current state, and future prospects of privatizing maritime security vessels. It places particular emphasis on the economic, legal, and operational dimensions of this growing sector, and addresses issues of key interest to industry, government, and academia. ...
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    69,39 €

  • Geographies of Dance
    This book is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between dance and geography. It includes articles from geographers, anthropologists, dance historians, architects, and urban planners and examines how dance uses, transforms and gives meaning to the everyday spaces we inhabit. ...
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    69,34 €

  • One-Eyed Jacks and the Suicide King
    Anthony Donell Smith
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    31,68 €

  • One-Eyed Jacks and the Suicide King
    Anthony Donell Smith
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    23,28 €

  • At Home in the Okavango
    Catie Gressier
    '[This book] is a beautifully written, well argued, and insightful piece of work, full of fascinating and important observations. It addresses key issues in Africa, including those surrounding questions of identity, belonging, and citizenship.' · Robert K. Hitchcock, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque'The ethnography presented in this important book is original and rich, a...
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    184,23 €

  • Walking Inside Out
    Tina Richardson
    This book brings together contemporary theorists and practitioners to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. ...
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    187,10 €

  • Titans of the Forests
    Gregory Short
    Instead of dwelling on the biological, physiological, or even the genetic aspects of our evolution, 'Titans of the Forests' takes a completely different approach, which could be referred to as the unchartered and neglected field of macroevolution. Uniquely captivating, controversial, and very readable, it is the author’s contention that we as a species were continuously forced ...
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    39,72 €

  • Exploring Everyday Life
    Billy Ehn / Orvar Löfgren / Richard Wilk
    Explores and explains how the mysteries of everyday life—from conversations and observations through web browsing and popular culture—can become the basis of rich ethnography and deep cultural analysis. ...
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    121,15 €

  • Exploring Everyday Life
    Billy Ehn / Orvar Löfgren / Richard Wilk
    Explores and explains how the mysteries of everyday life—from conversations and observations through web browsing and popular culture—can become the basis of rich ethnography and deep cultural analysis. ...
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    49,18 €

  • Walking Inside Out
    Tina Richardson
    This book brings together contemporary theorists and practitioners to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. ...
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    61,19 €

  • Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity
    John S Benson / John S. Benson / John SBenson
    Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity follows the lives of two generations of an American Lutheran missionary community as they live within Tanzania, the United States, and other parts of the world. John Benson compares the lives of the missionary generation to that of their children and focuses on the two themes of connection to place and religious development...
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    142,73 €

  • Mapungubwe Reconsidered
    MISTRA
    The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa’s social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage (Unesco) in 2003. Contained within this landscape is indispensable information on precolonial state formation, social hierarchies, architecture of stone-walled towns, mineral processing and intercontinental trade.And ...
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    85,12 €

  • Tracking Down Ecological Guidance
    Keith Helmuth
    Tracking Down Ecological Guidance is a road map to an emerging worldview. For several centuries the effect of the industrial revolution has been to reinforce the cultural assumption that Earth is just a storehouse of raw materials for human use, and the faster these resources are exploited the better off the human species will be. This exploitive worldview is failing; it no lo...
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    20,17 €

  • Another Summer in Kintyre
    Angus Martin
    In 1986, the Gaelic writer, Aonghas MacNeacail, described Angus Martin as ’Kintyre’s one-man research institute’. This collection reflects the style and character of its predecessor, ’A Summer in Kintyre’, yet is rich in differences. The narrative begins in April 2014 and ends in September, but real time is irrelevant, since the author dips frequently into history and prehisto...
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    21,84 €


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