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The brilliant and insightful new book from Gillian Tett, author of the bestselling FOOL'S GOLD

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Offers an account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both discussion and investigations. This book presents an analysis of knowledge in everyday life in the context of a theory of society as a dialectical process between objective and subjective reality.

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This is a supplemental text for all sociology courses that facilitates, invigorates, and enhances student learning by teaching students to read and write effectively.

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An in-depth study of the "starter marriage" phenomenon, involving couples who marry and divorce by the age of thirty, explores the changing face of marriage in America from a social and cultural perspective and discusses the hopes, motivations, and feelings toward the institution of marriage of you

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Does putting your phone on the dinner table impact your relationships How does the TV placement in your home affect your family The Stuff of Family Life looks at the changing world of families through a unique examination of their stuff. The book takes readers through phases of family life, examining our choices about spaces and objects.

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A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard

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"In a new epilogue to this classic work, renowned ethnographer and storyteller Ruth Behar reflects on the groundbreaking impact The Vulnerable Observer has had on anthropology, sociology, and psychology and on scholarly writing"--

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Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru, The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco analyzes the political and social transformations that led to the downfall of the Wari civilization in the Andean Middle Horizon period (AD 5001000) and resulted in the rise of the Inca state.

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An Irish physician explores the ways in which society has lost the ability to deal with death.

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The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.

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* An incisive and thoroughly accessible account of China's emergence as an economic power and its developing relationship with the West

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A powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - and a radical vision for change

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The age of American global dominance is over. This brilliant new book from one of the FT's most senior writers shows how it ended and where the US needs to turn to prevent the crisis from deepening further.

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When the author found himself doing the same things week in, week out while living in England's capital, he decided to heed Johnson's words and seek out a thing to do each day in London to make him fall back in love with the city. In this book, he shares the fun, diverting and imaginative things that you can do to keep yourself amused in London.

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Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society. This book argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. It explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.

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Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that make up our worldview, visualize alternative assumptions, and then test them in practice. The author describes the process, offering a critique of contemporary assumptions, and suggests alternatives to illustrate the process.

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Researchers rethink tactics for inventing and disseminating research, examining the use of such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalogs, interactive machines, costume, and digital platforms.