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This second edition of a classic text provides an introductory and interdisciplinary review of the theories of social and economic development.

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The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. Nobody would throw the body of a white climber off Mt. Everest.

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Life Chances, Education and Social Movements dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorfs work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in the book.

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A study of health and illness behaviour which demonstrates the various strategies chronically ill people use to manage their symptoms and overcome the consequences of their particular illnesses, to live a relatively normal life and maintain their self-esteem.

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This text encourages a greater understanding of the US-Mexico border. It focuses on employment, education, drug addiction, violence, healthcare, and women's issues. The authors of the chapters have researched, studied, worked with, or have been border-landers themselves.

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Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia is recommended for scholars of inner Asian languages, cultures, and history, and unravels the origin and meaning of many ethnonyms on the basis of language contact and cultural interaction between the Altaic and Indo-European people.

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Little Emperors and Material Girls is the book which will change the way you see China.

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Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives -- .

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Why are so many Australians working more yet struggling to meet their basic needs This account of the plight of low paid workers is a stinging indictment of our society and a threat to our social fabric.

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This book explores how racism lives and how racism is lived. Earlier chapters provide the theoretical foundation for the later chapters on contemporary racial issues. Collectively they show change, continuity, and diversity of racial thinking and outcomes.

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This book explores how racism lives and how racism is lived. Earlier chapters provide the theoretical foundation for the later chapters on contemporary racial issues. Collectively they show change, continuity, and diversity of racial thinking and outcomes.

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"Written under the aspices of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies."

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"Written under the aspices of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies."

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This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live.

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Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America.

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This sequel to "The Interpretation of Cultures" is a collection of essays which reject large abstractions, going beyond the mere translation of one culture into another, and looks at the underlying, compartmentalized reality.

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This book examines the social relations of longing and belonging to be found in nation building, ethnographic practices, dwelling, and diasporas.

Ilcan propels us into various dimensions of movement, as well as social relations in the fields of dispersion, transition, and displacement.

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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

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This work provides a review of Wirth's life based on available biographical sources including unpublished materials. It focuses on Wirth's social, political, and professional evolution, and depicts his personal development through his scholarship, his social activism, and his commitment to reform.

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iLouisiana Creolesi examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew JolivZtte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial identity formation and community construction among Creoles of Color living in and out of the state of Louisiana.

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In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay, Stephen Kidd examines how the Indigenous Enxet people navigate daily social and economic interactions within the market economy of Paraguay.

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"Interdisciplinary studies on the position of love in contemporary global thought and literature that address love and care work within social structures and institutions"--