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The nine papers in this volume examine the historical experience of particular populations in Western Europe and North America in a search for the processes that change fertility patterns. The contributors' findings enable them to reevaluate some of the conflicting hypotheses that have been advanced for these changes. The authors stress the effects

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A comprehensive collection of original papers and essays that document the establishment and rise of the discipline of sociology in Australia and New Zealand. It focuses on the major themes, debates and controversies in Australian sociology. It is of interest to sociologists and other scholars in the social sciences.

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In the decade after World War II, up to 350,000 ethnic Italians were displaced from the border zone between Italy and Yugoslavia known as the Julian March. This book reveals the repercussions of this episode of European history. It explores displacement from both the viewpoints of the exiles and those who stayed behind.

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This is a study of Finnish Lotto winners, aiming to reveal the changes taking place in consumer behaviour when economic resources are suddenly and unpredictably multiplied.

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This is a study of Finnish Lotto winners, aiming to reveal the changes taking place in consumer behaviour when economic resources are suddenly and unpredictably multiplied.

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This book addresses issues of continuity and change in past life-ways as well as radical shifts in techniques, innovation and achievements of the Saharan people during the Holocene period, the last 10,000 years. The project is accomplished through a series of precise case studies, each addressing a topical space-time problem.

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Among the topics included in this study of Protestantism's rise and spread in Latin America are the relationship between religion and demography, leadership in the role of church growth, religious conversion and modernisation in Indian communities.

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Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. This title combines menus, recipes and bad colonial poetry with the author's anthropological insight to give an important perspective on the perils and problems of globalization.

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Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. This title combines menus, recipes and bad colonial poetry with the author's anthropological insight to give an important perspective on the perils and problems of globalization.

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This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context.

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This book is about families who combine home life and income-producing work under the same roof. work characteristics for both business owners and wage workers;

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This is an ethnographic study of predominantly Puerto Rican low-income people on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who have been involved in the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings through sweat-equity urban homesteading from 1978 to 1993.

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This is an ethnographic study of predominantly Puerto Rican low-income people on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who have been involved in the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings through sweat-equity urban homesteading from 1978 to 1993.

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Honduras in Dangerous Times is a historical and ethnographic study of the evolution of popular resistance in modern Honduras. This book contributes to understanding societal change in dangerous contexts, connecting everyday lives to broad societal movements, and emphasizing popular resistance as both critical and creative.

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Honduras in Dangerous Times is a historical and ethnographic study of the evolution of popular resistance in modern Honduras. This book contributes to understanding societal change in dangerous contexts, connecting everyday lives to broad societal movements, and emphasizing popular resistance as both critical and creative.

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Providing practical assistance to readers and their loved ones, this title incorporates the abstract and theoretical analysis essential to examining how we die in contemporary Western society. The author also presents the backgrounds of the Hospice and Right-to-Die ("Hemlock") Movements.

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This book is a selection of edited papers, most of which were initially presented at an international conference held under the auspices of the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International Sociological Association.

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