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An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
PDF, ePub
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-67%
106,95€
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AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author's own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the impact of social...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
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96,95€
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Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human-environment interactions and providing the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and research methods accessible...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
PDF, ePub
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93,95€
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In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
ePub
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35,95€
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Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today’s world. A major new study of race and racism by a renowned...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Offre spéciale
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38,95€
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America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2011-09-08
ePub
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SuperMedia is a lively, engaging, and refreshingly-opinionated text offering informed discussion on the importance and future of liberal journalism as a healthy part of a flourishing society. Examines the profound changes journalism is undergoing for social, economic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-07
ePub
Offre spéciale
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28,95€
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The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work. Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-09-07
Collection :
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
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FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS TRUE CRIME CASE - NOW UPDATED WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR. AS FEATURED ON TV, AND IN THE PODCAST SERIES, UNHEARD: THEFRED & ROSE WEST TAPESFred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2011-09-05
ePub
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The twin journals, Der Österreichische Volkswirt (The Austrian Economist) and Der Deutsche Volkswirt (The German Economist) were created by Gustav Stolper, godfather of Joseph Schumpeter, first in Vienna and then after the First World War, in Berlin. Schumpeter was to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-09-03
ePub
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The definitive collection of first-hand accounts of the world's outlaw motorcycle gangs, with contributions by Sonny Barger, Hunter S. Thompson, Ed Winterhalder, William Queen and many moreOutlaw bikers consider themselves 'the last free people in society',...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2011-09-01
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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In a work of history that will make headlines, NEW YORK TIMES reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of the most important federal commission since the Warren Commission. Shenon uncovers startling new information about...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2011-09-01
ePub
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The most complete guide ever to the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it He defeated the Saxons so decisively at the Battle of Badon that he held the Saxon invasion of Britain at bay for at least a generation. He has inspired more stories, books and...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2011-09-01
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains. This book provides a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-31
Collection :
Social Indicators Research Series
ePub
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Global Communication is the most definitive text on multi-national communication and media conglomerates, exploring how global media, particularly CNN, the BBC, Euronews, and Al Jazeera, influence audiences and policy makers alike. Includes four completely new...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-31
ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
32,30€
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Just when you thought paper couldn’t be more exciting, this book comes your way! This book—jammed full of paper—unites philosophy with one of the best shows ever: The Office. Addressing both the current American incarnation and the original British version, The Office...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-31
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
ePub
Offre spéciale
-9%
21,95€
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Das Thema «Kinderfachabteilungen» wird in seinen vielseitigen Dimensionen dargestellt. Dabei handelte es sich im Zweiten Weltkrieg um etwa 30 Tötungsstätten in der Psychiatrie und anderen Heileinrichtungen im «Großdeutschen Reich», in denen über 5.000 geistig und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-30
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Kann ein Altenpflegeheim ein neues Zuhause werden? Dieser Frage geht diese Mikrostudie, eine empirische Ethnographie der eigenen Kultur, über mehrere Jahre nach. Gegensätzliche Kriterien, die kaum miteinander vereinbar sind, treffen zusammen: Der caritative Gedanke, den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-30
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Get high. Become addicted. Commit crimes.Get arrested and be sent to jail.Get released. Repeat. It’s a cycle often destined to persist, in large part because the critical step that is often missing in the process, which is treatment geared toward ensuring that addicts...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-28
Collection :
Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-27
Collection :
Understanding Population Trends and Processes
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