wyszukanych pozycji: 31
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Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781594513831 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How has domestic life been reorganised to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here "at home"? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way in the United States. Encouraging a radical rethinking of what the country is today, this book highlights the connection of U.S. imperial strategies to the production of insecurity, uncertainty, and deepening inequality at home. Rethinking America also explores the instabilities and contradictions of...
How has domestic life been reorganised to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here ...
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983,54 |
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Preying on the Elderly
ISBN: 9781954623071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,69 |
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The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World : Essays in Honour of the late Professor Uriel Dann
ISBN: 9780714646015 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Examines the crucial role of the Hashemites in Arab nationalism throughout the 20th century, from the 1916 Arab Revolt through the creation of Arab states after World War I, the attempts at Arab unity, and the establishment of two kingdoms, to the current Palestinian debate. The 13 essays, from an O
Examines the crucial role of the Hashemites in Arab nationalism throughout the 20th century, from the 1916 Arab Revolt through the creation of Arab st...
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762,24 |
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The Tumultuous Politics of Scale: Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux
ISBN: 9780367186265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Consisting of contributions from anthropologists, geographers and cultural studies scholars, this volume explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and spatial scales, and around variations in scale from the body to the global"--
"Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Consisting of contributions from anthropo...
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860,59 |
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The Middle East: The Impact of Generational Change
ISBN: 9789652240712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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19,62 |
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The Broken Fountain
ISBN: 9780231133715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, offers vivid, literary descriptions of Fontana del Re, an impoverished Neapolitan neighborhood. Belmonte documents the struggles of Neapolitans surrounded by crumbling buildings and economic insecurity. He details family dynamics as well as the working of Naples's informal economy, the day-to-day struggle for economic subsistence, and the intermittent begging and thieving of the young. Taking...
As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one ...
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155,30 |
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The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States
ISBN: 9780814731161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it. The essays collected here explore how global, national, and local structures of power produce poverty and affect the material well-being,... Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the Un... |
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147,48 |
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 9781440829154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 521 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being.
Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and heal...
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186,30 |
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The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9780521775403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still-perplexing disorder. Controversial issues such as the validity of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth. Separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse. Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered.
An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still...
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cena:
695,81 |
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AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780367314439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historic contexts.
This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essa...
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762,24 |
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The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9780521121026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still-perplexing disorder. Controversial issues such as the validity of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth. Separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse. Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered.
An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still...
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408,12 |