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By: Harrison C. White

ISBN: 9780691137155
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Refines and enlarges the author's theory of how social structure and culture emerge from the chaos and uncertainty of social life. This book of social theory links social structure with the lived experience of individuals, providing a perspective on the kinds of social formations that develop in the process.


(Hardback)

By: Marian Kempny

ISBN: 9780275975456
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Most of the 15 studies began as papers for the Structuring of Identities in 20th Century Europe: East/West Convergence and Divergence conference, held in November 1997 near Prague. Pivoting on the notion that the identity predicament is really different now from what former types of society knew, th


(Hardback)

By: John A. De Brizzi

ISBN: 9780313236143
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1983
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Graham Kinloch

ISBN: 9780313312892
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The extent to which modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate, rather than the objective facts or insights they claim to develop, remains one of the most striking features of social science research and writing.


(Hardback)

By: Neala J. Schleuning

ISBN: 9780897892155
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives.

Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human beings work;


(Paperback)

By: Neala J. Schleuning

ISBN: 9780897892216
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives.

Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human beings work;


(Paperback)

By: Charlena E. Jackson B.S. M.S. M.H.A

ISBN: 9781733566605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Hilda Llorns

ISBN: 9781498504218
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Hilda Llornss Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, is a ground-breaking study of imagesphotographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and filmsabout Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990.


(Hardback)

By: Emily Stokes-Rees

ISBN: 9781786609045
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From new museum construction to the re-purposing of colonial monuments, and from essentialized narratives to spaces which encourage visitors to dream, this book explores the development and influence of national museums in three contemporary Asian societies Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau.


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By: Helen Stokes

ISBN: 9780522860948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Young people consider their future at a stage of life when the structure and relative certainty of school and further education are about to be left behind. This book provides an insight into how young people see themselves, the options they think are available to them and the strategies they use to make their imagined futures possible.


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By: Karen Throsby

ISBN: 9780719099625
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed


(Hardback)

By: Jorge Frozzini

ISBN: 9781498518123
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coalition-building, and other tactics.


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By: Alberto M. Bursztyn Ph.D.

ISBN: 9781440803154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Immigrants now comprise one-fourth of the 75 million children in the United States. The ability of today's immigrant children to become productively engaged adults hinges on their internal resources and mental health. This book ascertains their psychological challenges and their often misunderstood needs.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The issue sheets are responses to the chapters in this book originally presented at the 1995 conference Implementing Recent Federal Legislation and summarize issues discussed in the roundtable discussions that were conducted at tne conference in which all participants shared ideas and background information.


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By: Myles I. Friedman

ISBN: 9780275960285
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Addresses the need, felt by professionals was well as the people they serve, for a better understanding of quality of life and how to improve it.


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By: Jill Dubisch

ISBN: 9780691029672
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Visited by thousands of pilgrims yearly, the Church of the Madonna of the Annunciation on the Aegean island of Tinos is a site where different interests come together. This book explores the shrine and its surrounding town, and offers insights into the intersection of social, religious, and political life in Greece.


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By: Hugh Raffles

ISBN: 9780691048857
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Demonstrates that the Amazon is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. This book introduces a diverse range of characters - from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders.


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By: William A. Henry

ISBN: 9780385479431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1995
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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In a provocative, brilliantly reasoned study, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author challenges current liberal notions that no individual or culture is better than any other and that America should guarantee equal prosperity for all its citizens. Reprint. NYT.


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By: Adam Bellow

ISBN: 9780385493895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The former editorial director of the Free Press and son of the great American novelist serves up a delicious exploration of nepotism, the favored treatment of one's relatives, in our times, arguing that the much stigmatized practice has its roots in human biological behavior and that it represents


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By: Nadia Ferrara

ISBN: 9781498549370
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nadia Ferrara explores the elements of evidence-informed policy development and calls for a cultural shift within both the research and policy worlds in order to best embed these dynamic principles in practice.


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By: Nadia Ferrara

ISBN: 9781498549356
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nadia Ferrara explores the elements of evidence-informed policy development and calls for a cultural shift within both the research and policy worlds in order to best embed these dynamic principles in practice.


(Paperback)

By: Nicholas Deakin

ISBN: 9780333912799
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Civil society as a concept is discussed in the political arena. But what does it mean in practice and how does it relate to more familiar ideas like voluntary action This book explores the connections between the two and provides a range of examples of situations.


(Paperback)

By: Dr. Clinton Bennett

ISBN: 9780304336821
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Traces the growth and development of two related disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. Locating these within the intellectual climate of the 19th century, the author reveals how each has influenced the other, and explores the criticism that they have aided colonial domination.


(Hardback)

By: Daniel Breslau

ISBN: 9780275963217
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Analyses the political consequences of social scientific evaluations of recent U.S. employment and training policy. This study shows that even the most technical features of evaluation methodology are objects of a politics of knowledge, and are by no means neutral with regard to the policies themselves.

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