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This book provides a discussion of private and public interaction in Dublin.

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"Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy" shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim.

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Census decennial enumerations are utilized to achieve two useful estimates: (l) Annual series of estimates of births, birth rates, and fertility rates for the white population of the U.S. from 1855 to the present (the first set of data on an annual basis); (2) Adjusted single-year age distributions of native white population and estimated undercoun

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This is the first book in anthropology to provide strategies for the collection of qualitative and comparative data about aging, representing state-of-the-art techniques including cross-cultural and life-cycle studies of aging.

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Anas Karzais timely book emphasizes how modern progressive sociological and political thought including the work of Weber, Adorno, and Foucault, is based on an often unacknowledged debt to Nietzsche. Karzais book highlights how Nietzsches observation of the human condition in modernity is to be read as an affirmative critique.

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This book is a guide to Millwall, the issues of 'football hooliganism' or working-class masculinity, sociology, anthropology, or sports studies.

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This book is a guide to Millwall, the issues of 'football hooliganism' or working-class masculinity, sociology, anthropology, or sports studies.

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In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural United States.

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Becoming a parent is a life changing experience and, like all major changes, parenthood can also be a source of strain. This title offers practical ideas to help get back some normality and restore the relationship.

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She let me go and disappeared ... without a backward glance. And I, I turned away, sick at heart, but not knowing ... that I had said goodbye to her forever. Now I wish, as much as I have ever wished for anything ... that I had been able to cage those precious minutes within the nets of gold I could not recognise as such.

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A rich ethnographic portrait of the Sahrawi people and their socio-political organization

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The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias' key ideas. The book considers Elias' theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to 'locate' his work in relation to that of other key figures in modern sociology.

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The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias' key ideas. The book considers Elias' theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to 'locate' his work in relation to that of other key figures in modern sociology.

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Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures.

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In Not Even a Grain of Rice, Christine Hippert examines the intercultural networks of buying food with in-store credit at corner stores in the Dominican Republic.

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From historical figures to the newest sports champion, figure-skater Rudy Galindo, this work provides profiles of both prominent and important but less-familiar people who have made significant contributions in their fields.