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"Bourdieu's work is formidable - the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion - take an apple, take a hanky - but take this book".
- Peter Beilharz , La Trobe University
"A good range of recent examples from popular culture are used to flesh out the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2002-01-02
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Livre en espagnolDestiné aux techniciens agricoles, ce guide présente les critères de choix des abris en zone tropicale, les techniques de culture en pleine terre et hors sol, et les principes de la lutte intégrée. Il décrit ensuite la culture de 9 espèces potagères...
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Cirad
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2002-01-01
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This text represents a serious attempt to carry out a large-scale longitudinal study of pre-marital factors that predict breakup and marital quality. The author develops a theoretical rationale for...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
2002
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Many of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Third International Great Apes of the World Conference, held July 3-6, 1998 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The editors of this volume,...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2002
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Recent droughts in Africa and elsewhere in the world, from China to Peru, have serious implications for food security and grave consequences for local and international politics. The issues do not...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2002
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`Richard Osborne has done something very special here. He takes us on an exciting journey into the knowledge required to exist, survive, thrive, in the new millennium, in an interconnected global space that includes cyberpunk and cyborg, chaos theory and conspiracy...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-12-19
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In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture.
Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-12-14
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The author takes the student through the whole of the research process including anticipating common mistakes and `times of trouble' and offering advice on how to make things easier on yourself. The methods work is sound and the methodology is put across very well and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-11-29
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Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-11-20
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Introduction to Politics and Society comprehensively demonstrates how key theoretical and concepts in political science have foretold, rationalized and shaped politics in the contemporary world.
Students will discover the meaning of `power', `authority', `coercion',...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-11-16
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This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is hospitalized? How do poor...
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Basic Books
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2001-11-08
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Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis: Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle -
`[A] stimulating new book on European welfare...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-11-07
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Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection.
Drawing on feminist theories of the body,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-11-01
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`Written with clarity and sophistication, it is not just an original argument about relationships of nature and culture, but also a useful text' - Keith Tester, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth
Is humanity and society separable from nature? Modern...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-10-18
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`A really fine book... an impressive work that adds much to the development of the use of qualitative methodology in social work research' - William J Reid, University at Albany
'The back cover of the book proclaims that "Qualitative Research in Social Work will be...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-10-04
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The ability to read published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in undertaking research using statistical analysis. This New Edition of Thomas R Black's best-selling text explains in clear and straightforward terms how students...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-09-21
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`The Sociological Ambition is a superb book... It is beautifully written, expertly edited and renders complex and original ideas entirely accessible... This is a modern classic' - Journal of Contemporary Religion
`For all social scientists who are fed up with...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-09-05
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Edited by one of the leading Paul Virilio authorities this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio's work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-08-21
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This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated 'turn towards the body'. However, it is partly critical of this development in as much as it affirms that
the sociology of the body has...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-08-15
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Kohls shares a feast of Korean culture: a ricebowl of history and tradition complimented by an array of spicy tidbits that capture the reader?s attention like a mouthful of kimchi. Based on personal experience, he provides critical incidents that explore the more...
Editeur :
Intercultural Press
Parution :
2001-08-01
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