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  • On Becoming a Professional Geographer
    Martin S. Kenzer / Martin SKenzer
    This book was first published in 1989 and is now reprinted.The book is divided into 5 sections- Graduate School- Beyond Graduate School- Writing- Editorial and Grant-getting Secrets- Academic SurvivalWhen this book was published in 1989, it was immediately recognized as meeting a disciplinary need. There has been a tendency in academic geography to believe that our students att...
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    58,42 €

  • At Home in the Hills
    John Gray
    '... a fascinating history of the Borders as space defined through exercises of power ... The absorbing history of space provides the setting for a fine-grained ethnograpy of place ... It also has the great virtue of being most readable.' · The Australian Journal of AnthropologyTo most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made...
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    184,11 €

  • Python’s Back
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
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    121,97 €

  • Boundaries of Faith
    Roger W. Stump / Roger WStump
    Boundaries of Faith explores religious fundamentalism as a social and cultural phenomenon, one whose influence has spread dramatically in recent decades. Indeed, religious fundamentalism has become a significant force in the cultural dynamics of contemporary societies around the world. This clear and balanced text focuses on the regional factors that encourage the development o...
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    72,32 €

  • Gendering the City
    This volume challenges the imagery of cities by looking through a gendered lens at how women utilize urban space. ...
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    62,70 €

  • Traditional African Names
    Jonathan Musere
    This volume looks at the in-depth meaning of indigenous as well as adopted African names. African personal names have multitudinous functions such as the association of one’s occupation, habits and personality. Many African names emanate from one’s ancestry through clan, ethnic/tribal or religious affiliation. Since most of these names emanate from the ’Bantuphone’ region of th...
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    179,61 €

  • Anthropological Theory in North America
    E. L. Cerroni-Long / ELCerroni-Long
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    121,56 €

  • Anthropological Theory in North America
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    57,58 €

  • The Ecology of Eden
    Evan Eisenberg
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    20,95 €

  • The Taste of American Place
    Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines-including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition-the editors have selected a group of engaging essays to help students explore the idea of food...
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    73,49 €

  • Beyond Malthus
    Brian Halweil / Gary T Gardner / Lester R Brown
    Human demands are pressing up against more and more of the Earth's limits. This book from the Worldwatch Institute examines the impacts of population growth on global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income, and health. Despite the current hype of a -birth dearth- in parts of Europe and Japan, the fact remains that human numbe...
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    17,75 €

  • Animals and Modern Cultures
    Adrian Franklin
    Animals and Modern Culture investigates the dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century. The book, focusing on social change and animals, is concerned with how humans relate to animals and how this has changed and why. ...
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    99,30 €

  • Problems and Issues of Diversity in the United States
    Larry Naylor
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    57,77 €

  • Anthropology of Religion
    Stephen Glazier
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    69,28 €

  • The End of the Refugee Cycle? Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction
    Chosen by The Humanitarian Times as one of the Top Ten Titles on Humanitarian Issues of 1998.At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the 'refugee cycle' - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was ...
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    44,36 €

  • Women and Work in Mexico’s Maquiladoras
    Altha J. Cravey / Altha JCravey
    The emergence of global assembly plants is closely linked to the creation of a global female industrial labor force. Women and Work in Mexico’s Maquiladoras examines this larger process in Mexico, where the maquiladora factories have turned to predominantly female labor. Exploring this dramatic shift, this book convincingly demonstrates how gender restructuring in workplaces an...
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    57,38 €

  • The Geology of Cornwall
    The geology of Cornwall has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in this book alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position and assessments of the environmental consequences of rock and mineral exploitation. ...
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    43,98 €

  • The Geology of Cornwall
    The geology of Cornwall has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in this book alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position and assessments of the environmental consequences of rock and mineral exploitation. ...
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    134,86 €

  • The History, Psychology, and Pedagogy of Geographic Literacy
    Malcolm P. Douglass / Malcolm PDouglass
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    121,97 €

  • The Social Organization of Law
    M.P. Baumgartner
    Talks about the work done in the sociology of law, a field dedicated to the study of the influence of social factors on legal behavior. This book looks at the operation of the justice systems and at various stages of the legal process. It also illustrates the advances in jurisprudential, moral, and practical applications of legal sociology. ...
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    158,35 €

  • A Plague of Sheep
    Elinor G. K. Melville / Elinor GKMelville
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    36,03 €

  • Advances in Human Ecology
    Freese / Lee Freese
    Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. ...
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    200,21 €

  • Rural Transport Policy
    GStokes / SCullinane / Sharon Cullinane
    Addresses rural transport policy issues in a comprehensive way. The aim of this book is not so much to provide answers to the various transport problems, but to provide a foundation for the formulation of ideas. It sets out to define the key transport issues involved in a rural context, and explores specific policies to deal with the issues. ...
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    294,42 €

  • The Evolutionary Outrider
    David Loye
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    141,20 €

  • The Evolutionary Outrider
    David Loye
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    57,63 €

  • Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
    Robert B. Marks / Robert BMarks
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    179,98 €

  • Contested Natures
    John Urry / Phil Macnaghten
    Demonstrating that all notions of nature are entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the ways in which the apparently natural world has been produced from within particular social practices. These are analyzed in terms of different senses, different times and the production of distinct spaces. ...
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    231,21 €

  • The End of the Refugee Cylcle?
    Chosen by The Humanitarian Times as one of the Top Ten Titles on Humanitarian Issues of 1998'Up-to-date material. Fills a fundamental gap in the literature which has tended to be based on pedagogical reasoning rather than actual field research.' · Population IndexAt the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the 're...
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    184,09 €

  • Philosophy and Geography II
    Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. This volume advances this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theo...
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    77,81 €

  • The Social Structure of Right and Wrong
    Donald Black
    Introduces and illustrates Black’s'pure sociology', a theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of various kinds. This work contains concepts and typologies applicable to partisan and nonpartisan forms of conflict management. It also gives theoretical perspectives on: crime as self-help; the broadening liability of organizations; and more. ...
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    105,35 €