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'This is a smart and compelling book. Difficult ideas are presented in an accessible manner, with plenty of supporting illustrations…Students will enjoy the research material and other supporting material. A definite winner!'-
Professor Jay Gubrium, University of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2004-09-01
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Whether you work with Americans face-to-face, communicate with them by telephone or e-mail or interact together in a virtual team, Americans at Work reveals the subtle and the not-so-subtle aspects of American culture in the workplace. Best-selling author Craig Storti...
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Intercultural Press
Parution :
2004-07-15
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Whether negotiating a delivery date, launching a local franchise or renting a car in Mexico City, speaking the language and knowing the rules of business are not enough. In any culture where yes can mean no?or sometimes maybe?even giants like Wal-Mart and IBM can make...
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Nicholas Brealey International
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2004-07-15
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Whether you work with Americans face-to-face, communicate with them by telephone or e-mail or interact together in a virtual team, Americans at Work reveals the subtle and the not-so-subtle aspects of American culture in the workplace. Best-selling author Craig Storti...
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Quercus
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2004-07-15
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This book offers a new and rigorous approach to observational sociology that is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
Throughout the authors encourage the reader to explore the social world at first hand, beginning with the immediate family context...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-06-02
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Johanna Grussner arrived in New York City starry-eyed. She was a young Finnish jazz singer looking for the big time. But it was hard to find steady gigs. Propelled by pluck, determination, and a smidgen of desperation, she obtained a job teaching music at P.S. 86, a...
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PublicAffairs
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2004-06-01
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'At last, a volume on civilization that truly reflects the complexity of multiple civilizations. The wealth of contributions Arjomand and Tiryakian have assembled demonstrates the value of an old concept for understanding the awful dilemmas confronting human kind in...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-19
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`The authors make excellent use of illustrative examples' - Reference Reviews
The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics provides students and researchers with an accessible and definitive resource to use when studying statistics in the social sciences, reading research reports...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-18
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`Alan Bryman has expanded on his internationally well-known work on Disney theme parks and Disneyization to create a fascinating and highly readable book. It should prove of interest to beginning students in a number of different courses and fields, as well as to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-18
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`A scholarly lexicon and stimulating "rough guide" for cultural studies as it confronts and navigates the shifting sands of past, present and future' - Tim O'Sullivan, Head of Media and Cultural Production, De Montfort University
`I'm certain undergraduate and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-18
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'There have been few critical engagements with the concept of creativity in recent years, so the authors provide an important contribution in drawing attention to what is arguably at the heart of much of what we most value in culture'
- Douglas Kellner, University of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-07
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This book provides an excellent reference guide to basic theoretical arguments, practical quantitative techniques and the methodologies that the majority of social science researchers are likely to require for postgraduate study and beyond. Diagrams and tables are used...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-04-21
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`This is a tour de force… It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard-headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is a seriously smart, comprehensive survey of the whole terrain of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-04-14
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`Lively and engaging… the themes of the chapters are well chosen and cover areas in which several key debates have taken place' - Nina Wakeford, University of Surrey
What are the relations between homosexuality, globalization and social theory? Why has the debate on...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-04-07
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Three to five per cent of children fail to thrive. Without earlyintervention this can lead to serious growth failure and delayedpsychomotor development. Such children typically present difficulties with feeding andsleeping, as well as other behavioural problems....
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2004-04-02
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'Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development' - Ian Johnson, Vice President for...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-03-31
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`This clearly written and user-friendly book is ideal for students or researchers who wish to get a basic, but solid grasp of a topic and see how it fits with other topics. By following the links a student can easily and efficiently build up a clear conceptual map of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-03-18
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"This book offers an original synthesis of existing knowledge, pointing forward in a manner that could influence a new generation’s conception of the field and its agenda. If it attracts the attention it merits, it could prove one of the most important books about...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-03-18
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'This is the most lucid and engaged account of Stuart Hall's work. Meticulously, and with an exemplary generosity, Helen Davis patiently unravels the threads of Hall's intellectual history. The result is a most useful and thoughtful book, which could prove to be...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-03-09
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What is qualitative secondary analysis? How can it be most effectively applied in social research?
This timely and accomplished book offers readers a well informed, reliable guide to all aspects of qualitative secondary analysis.
The book:
· Defines secondary...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-03-02
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