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Projects shape nearly every aspect of our lives, and yet this concept is rarely examined. This book changes that.

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The text of the Bongiorno-Livingston translation of Trattato di sociologia generale has been preserved wherever possible.

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An important new appraisal of one of the 20th centurys most important activist sociologists.

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This book establishes a set of parameters for social capital that help us examine how policy can increase cooperation between organisations and individuals, and how a social capital framework can also help us understand the public policy process. It helps understand how social capital theories can be integrated into grassroots policy making.

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Considering Class shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must take place on the terrain of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play.

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Cooperativism and Democracy contains a selection of texts in socio-political thought focusing on Polish cooperativism which make an important contribution to the debate over the relationship of contemporary economics and politics.

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The most up-to-date and comprehensive study on the effect of conflict on young people in the Middle East and North Africa today.

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This volume brings together contributions which take up the key debates regarding the economic crash of 2007-8 and its sequels.

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In order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology.

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This peer-reviewed book series offers insights into our current reality by exploring the content and consequences of power relationships under capitalism, and by considering the spaces of opposition and resistance to these changes that have been defining our new age.

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This expansive volume challenges the conventional approach to research by arguing for the recentering of local and marginalized knowledges

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D is for Death is not just a book: it's a captivating and thought-provoking adventure that challenges perceptions and leaves you with a profound appreciation for the one certainty that binds us all the journey from A to Z, where death becomes a quirky guide through life's mysteries.

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In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion.

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This work faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some populart errors in our thinking about death. It examines the metaphors which can mislead us: death as parting; death as sleep; immortality as the denial of death; and selflessness as a kind of consolation.

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A detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International that helps to uncover a philosophy of praxis that remains useful today.

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Mortality forecasting is used in a wide variety of academic fields, and for policymaking in global health, social security and retirement planning, and other areas. This title provides a framework for forecasting age-sex-country-cause-specific variables that makes it possible to incorporate information than standard approaches.

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Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are 'invisible' buildings, visited only by necessity, and they have not received the attention they deserve. Crematoria present a real challenge for architects.