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The Soviet Union may well have collapsed of its own weight sooner or later, but there is no doubt that the media, technology and communications accelerated the process, a form of uskoreniie that Gorbachev never intended.

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The Soviet Union may well have collapsed of its own weight sooner or later, but there is no doubt that the media, technology and communications accelerated the process, a form of uskoreniie that Gorbachev never intended.

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Based on comprehensive statistical data and detailed analyses of case histories drawn from private practice, maternity homes, and a county hospital, this book examines the societal, familial, and psychological factors in illegitimacy.

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Modern-day Japan has proven to be a complex nation struggling to combine traditional attitudes with the political and social demands of an advanced industrialized economy.

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"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania"--

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Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically-grounded study of Indigenous recognition strategies in post-neoliberal times in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare engages with performative, artistic, and pedagogical activities linked to the natural and spiritual environments.

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Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world's urban population lived as late as 1800. Gilbert Rozman has drawn on both sociology and history to develop original methods of illuminating the historical urbanization of China and Japan and to provide a way of relating urban patterns to

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A study of journal-keeping in a university science class. The author attended the class as an observer, took notes, held interviews and analyzed the journal entries made by the students. She examines and considers their journal-keeping activity as the outcome of a socio-political process.

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Illustrates how numbers can be used successfully for research purposes - without you ever having to consider confidence intervals, probability densities, Gaussian distributions, or any of those complicated and generally useless things that appear in treatises on statistics. This guide is useful for educational and social science researchers.

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Why is there such an active and ongoing resistance to mandatory vaccination This book examines why vaccination as a public health measure continues to be highly controversial.

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This text challenges the European dichotomy of space into public and private, and morality into honour and shame, and shows how these notions have mistakenly been applied to Arab women's use of the veil and, more broadly, to their position in society.

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In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young Arab women voluntarily donned the veil. This book draws on fieldwork, anthropology, history and original Islamic sources and aims to challenge the assumption that veiling is largely about modesty and seclusion, honor and shame.

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In Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts, Michael J. Ryan examines the modern and historical role of the secretive tradition of stick fighting within rural Venezuela.

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Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.

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In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation.

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This compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world provides a provocative context in which students can think about civilization and its costs.

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Vinyl Records and Analog Culture in the Digital Age examines music technologies from a popular culture studies perspective, taking into consideration the ways in which human beings bring these technologies into their lives and the discursive practices they create.