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Hardback. In Latino Mennonites, Hinojosa has interwoven church history with social history to explore dimensions of identity in Latino Mennonite communities and to create a new way of thinking about the history of American evangelicalism. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSL4; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412832
- ISBN
- 9781421412832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.00€ 43.93
€ 47.00
€ 43.93
Hardcover. Num Pages: 203 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 186 x 21. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604565737
- ISBN
- 9781604565737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.81€ 47.59
€ 66.81
€ 47.59
Paperback. Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, this accessible and engaging book advances a uniquely sociological perspective on economy and state connections to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. Series: Polity Economy and Society Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; KC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644554
- ISBN
- 9780745644554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.93
€ 24.93
Paperback. The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFSF; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571811721
- ISBN
- 9781571811721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.13
€ 45.13
Paperback. Care of children from abusive or neglected homes is an increasing problem in today's society. Whether children should be placed in residential care, or community care through adoption is a topic of debate. This book summarizes the results of a survey commissioned by the Department of Health. Series: Wiley Series in Child Care & Protection. Num Pages: 282 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471978374
- ISBN
- 9780471978374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.68
€ 69.68
Hardback. Num Pages: 94 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761847526
- ISBN
- 9780761847526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.45
€ 87.45
Hardback. A bilingual collection that contains such tales as "Uncle Rabbit, Uncle Coyote," "The Tattooed Woman," "The Moon," and "The Scream in the Night" - more than 25 tales ranging from trickster tales, tales of ghosts and witches to moral tales and tales of the underworld, presented in Spanish and English. Series: World Folklore Series. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 185 x 20. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9781591581383
- ISBN
- 9781591581383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 50.87
€ 51.99
€ 50.87
Paperback. Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's "official" institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief. Editor(s): Jankowiak, William R. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHM; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231096874
- ISBN
- 9780231096874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.69
€ 45.69
Paperback. Looks at how the biological facts of motherhood give rise to life-altering emotional and psychological changes. Series: River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803235083
- ISBN
- 9780803235083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.01
€ 19.01
Hardback. 'A timely account and analysis of the lived reality .. of West Indians who now tenant the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain.' Professor Rex Nettleford, University W Indies Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL3; JHBA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745317632
- ISBN
- 9780745317632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.27€ 80.33
€ 96.27
€ 80.33
Paperback. Leading Canadian experts discuss when - and if - sociologists should intervene in public debates and engage in social activism. Editor(s): Hanemaayer, Ariane; Schneider, Dr. Christopher J. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: GPS; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774826648
- ISBN
- 9780774826648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.12
€ 43.99
€ 39.12
Paperback. * This is an engaging new book from one of the most influential and widely read sociologists in the world today * Bauman, in conversation with Leonidas Donskis, reflects on the nature of evil in our liquid modern world. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509508129
- ISBN
- 9781509508129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.48
€ 22.48
Hardcover. Editor(s): Merrick, Professor Joav, MD, MMedSci, DMSc; Tenenbaum, Ariel; Omar, Hatim A. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629487113
- ISBN
- 9781629487113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 220.85€ 150.02
€ 220.85
€ 150.02
The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in...
Patricia Fernández-Kelly Alejandro Portes
Hardcover. Whereas most migration literature focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, researchers focus on the internal structure and activities of these organizations.. Editor(s): Portes, Alejandro; Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387343
- ISBN
- 9781782387343
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.99
€ 168.99
Hardback. Presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicating its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making, this title looks at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 718. 416 pages. Presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicating its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making, this title looks at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHB. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight: 718.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273566
- ISBN
- 9780520273566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.70€ 62.38
€ 81.70
€ 62.38
Hardback. Focusing on the parent-caregiver relationship as only an employer-employee contract is an attempt to bound something that is, inevitably, a sticky, unbounded situation. Num Pages: 258 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMC; JMJ; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780765701787
- ISBN
- 9780765701787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.76
€ 133.76
Paperback. Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781412804592
- ISBN
- 9781412804592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.20
€ 55.20
Paperback. This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate - such as 'society' and the 'individual' - have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected. Editor(s): Martin, Peter J.; Dennis, Alex. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081729
- ISBN
- 9780719081729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.68
€ 31.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403916525
- ISBN
- 9781403916525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.31
€ 51.31
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813574141
- ISBN
- 9780813574141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.64
€ 164.64
Paperback. Studying the changing structure of social inequality and its underlying causes and consequences, this text encourages diverse methodologies and approaches, including conceptual and theoretical treatises, qualitative and quantitative analyses, and comparative and case-study approaches. Num Pages: 320 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804701242
- ISBN
- 9780804701242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.03
€ 32.99
€ 27.03
Hardback. Representing a range of approaches and emphases, the chapters in this volume address and illustrate linkages between social theory and history; social theory and historical analysis as mutually supportive frames of analysis, and affinities between the history of social thought and the history of modern societies. Editor(s): Dahms, Harry F. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 352 pages, no. BIC Classification: HBA; HBTB; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783502189
- ISBN
- 9781783502189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.54
€ 158.54
Hardcover. Editor(s): Parker, Miranda O.; Petrov, Alexander D. Num Pages: 993 pages. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 260 x 181 x 71. Weight in Grams: 2352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613246689
- ISBN
- 9781613246689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 451.91€ 313.83
€ 451.91
€ 313.83
Hardcover. * New edition of a popular and highly readable examination of debates surrounding identity. * Shows how identity is part of the fabric of society, and integral to social relations - critical to how we understand the social world. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745654157
- ISBN
- 9780745654157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.88
€ 69.88