wyszukanych pozycji: 19
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life : Practice, Materiality and Culture
ISBN: 9781847883650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia, and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics, and show... Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties... |
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701,59 zł |
The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How It Changes
ISBN: 9780857020420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Clever, innovative book which makes an important contribution to social theory and social policy. An effective introduction it covers core themes and demonstrates exactly how our everyday life is defined by the rise, change and collapse of social practices.
A Clever, innovative book which makes an important contribution to social theory and social policy. An effective introduction it covers core themes a...
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654,82 zł |
Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality
ISBN: 9781859736258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes, as well the social meaning of the practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances and clothes play a crucial role in our lives, but not many of us question exactly how and why we perform so many daily rituals associated with them. Showers, heating, air-conditioning and clothes washing... Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely... |
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623,64 zł |
Connecting Practices: Large Topics in Society and Social Theory
ISBN: 9781032217765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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649,62 zł |
Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies
ISBN: 9781138476165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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197,43 zł |
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture
ISBN: 9781847883643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia, and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics, and show... Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties... |
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197,43 zł |
Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change
ISBN: 9781138847156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer. The contributors to Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change come from different disciplines sociology, geography, economics and philosophy but are alike in taking social... Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new way... |
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259,80 zł |
Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change
ISBN: 9780415540650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer.
Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways o...
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753,56 zł |
The Design of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781845206833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How do common household items such as basic plastic house wares or high-tech digital cameras transform our daily lives? The Design of Everyday Life considers this question in detail, from the design of products through to their use in the home. Drawing on interviews with consumers themselves, the authors look at how everyday objects, ranging from screwdrivers to photo management software, are used on a practical level. Closely investigating the design, production and use of mass-market goods, the authors offer new interpretations of how consumers' needs are met and manufactured.... How do common household items such as basic plastic house wares or high-tech digital cameras transform our daily lives? The Design of Everyday L... |
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155,86 zł |
Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality
ISBN: 9781859736302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes, as well the social meaning of the practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances and clothes play a crucial role in our lives, but not many of us question exactly how and why we perform so many daily rituals associated with them. Showers, heating, air-conditioning and clothes washing... Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely... |
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176,64 zł |
Connecting Practices: Large Topics in Society and Social Theory
ISBN: 9781032229966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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187,04 zł |
Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies
ISBN: 9781138476042 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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701,59 zł |
Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector
ISBN: 9780367027797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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119,48 zł |
Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice
ISBN: 9780367465018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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478,07 zł |
Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society
ISBN: 9780415852869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit in the context of increasing carbon intensities of everyday life. In this bold and unconventional volume historians, sociologists, environmentalists, geographers, and cultural theorists provoke and stimulate debate about the future of comfort in a lower carbon society. These contributions are then...
Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any pros...
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280,58 zł |
Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society
ISBN: 9780415550895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Historians, sociologists, environmentalists, geographers, and cultural theorists provoke and stimulate debate about the future of comfort in a lower carbon society. This book discusses this topic.
Historians, sociologists, environmentalists, geographers, and cultural theorists provoke and stimulate debate about the future of comfort in a lower c...
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701,59 zł |
Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector
ISBN: 9780367027759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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701,59 zł |
Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice
ISBN: 9780367465025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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119,48 zł |
The Nexus of Practices: Connections, Constellations, Practitioners
ISBN: 9781138675148 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines. The book addresses key issues facing practice theory, expands practice theory s conceptual repertoire, and explores new empirical terrain. With each intellectual move, it generates further opportunities for social research.
More specifically, the book s chapters offer new approaches to analysing connections within the nexus of... The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of th...
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701,59 zł |