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Computing Myths, Class Realities: An Ethnography of Technology and Working People in Sheffield, England
ISBN: 9780367016043 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of computing in an economically transforming city in the north of England looks at how new information technologies effect and are affected by a historically vibrant working-class culture. Stressing the complex interplay between technology and culture, especially notions about work and labor, the authors examine how this dynamic is manifest in computer-related jobs, in social relationships, and in the reproduction of local culture. They analyze the structure of computing in Sheffield, placing it in the contexts of national state policy, world political economy, and the regional...
This study of computing in an economically transforming city in the north of England looks at how new information technologies effect and are affected...
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710,17 |
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Literacy, Power, and Democracy in Mozambique: The Governance of Learning from Colonization to the Present
ISBN: 9780367016081 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To pose questions about literacy is to pose questions about power and voice and whose experiences and language are validated in text. Whatever the dimensions of human liberation attached to literacy, literacy is also about governance and being governed. It is never just a question of reading and writing but also a question of the complex interplay of language meanings and practices, based as much on class, race, and gender as on grammar and syntax. This critical, ethnographic study explores how women and men in a Mozambican factory in the mid-1980s made sense of literacy and the different...
To pose questions about literacy is to pose questions about power and voice and whose experiences and language are validated in text. Whatever the dim...
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747,55 |
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Cities and Regions as Nonlinear Decision Systems
ISBN: 9780367019693 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an exposition of ongoing research in the fields of non-linear dynamic systems driven by the decisions of human beings and cognitive science as they relate to urban and regional analysis. It aims to illuminate the social and economic functioning of cities and regions.
This book presents an exposition of ongoing research in the fields of non-linear dynamic systems driven by the decisions of human beings and cognitive...
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710,17 |
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Human Systems Ecology: Studies in the Integration of Political Economy, Adaptation, and Socionatural Regions
ISBN: 9780367006990 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents nine case studies which illustrate an approach to the interface between human ecology, political economy, and adaptive decision making. It summarizes strands of theory which have contributed to the development of a "human systems ecology'' perspective on socionatural regions.
This book presents nine case studies which illustrate an approach to the interface between human ecology, political economy, and adaptive decision mak...
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710,17 |
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Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past
ISBN: 9781349846979 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. `Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.' - Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA `Memories on the Move is a brilliant edited volume that fills an important gap in the field of memory studies as it weaves together issues of mobility and remembering. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographical cases, it offers a rich and complex portrait of mnemonic constructions in the context of forced migration,...
`Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer the...
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523,30 |
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Buying and Selling Power: Anthropological Reflections on Prostitution in Spain
ISBN: 9780367009823 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the complex identities and connection between clients and prostitutes living in Spain and life beyond prostitution. It reflects on the relationship between the anthropologist and that of his/her subjects and informants.
This book explores the complex identities and connection between clients and prostitutes living in Spain and life beyond prostitution. It reflects on ...
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710,17 |
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Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses: Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania
ISBN: 9781349709717 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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483,04 |
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Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse
ISBN: 9781349932962 / Angielski / Miękka / 01-04-2038 / 261 str. Książka dostępna od: 01-04-2038 |
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587,68 |
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Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development, and Malnutrition in Guatemala City
ISBN: 9780367011024 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the study of the children of El Progreso for our understanding of the ecology of growth and development in children from a social and economically-marginal urban environment in a lesser developed country.
This book presents the study of the children of El Progreso for our understanding of the ecology of growth and development in children from a social a...
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710,17 |
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Problematising Young People: A Critical Ethnographic Investigation of ADHD
ISBN: 9781838678968 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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376,30 |
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The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and the Capitalist Worldeater
ISBN: 9783030268510 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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261,63 |
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Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest
ISBN: 9781607817208 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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225,30 |
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Thinking Race: Social Myths and Biological Realities
ISBN: 9781538105016 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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171,42 |
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Village Viability in Contemporary Society
ISBN: 9780367215736 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book on the important question of village viability arose from several organizational innovations. It presents the important experience of intensive village studies conducted by anthropologists and sociologists and describes it with the views of development economists and administrators.
This book on the important question of village viability arose from several organizational innovations. It presents the important experience of intens...
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205,65 |
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Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781789206487 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,30 |
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Stratagems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics
ISBN: 9780367096700 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in ?exotic? and ?developed? societies. In Bailey's analysis, Swat Pathan chiefs, cosa nostra gangsters, General de Gaulle, and the Untouchables in a rural Indian village (for example) are shown employing similar strategies, both effective and ineffective,...
F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and ...
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747,55 |
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From Ultrasound to Army: The Unconscious Trajectories of Masculinity in Israel
ISBN: 9780367102425 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daring to gaze directly into the core of parenting in Israel, this book presents, for the first time, a study that focuses on the conscious and unconscious aspects of the Israeli parenting experience when raising sons is overshadowed by the knowledge that at 18 years old, these sons will be drafted into inherently life-endangering compulsory military service.Exposing the emotional drama, hidden from open view until now, and against a background of a uniquely intertwined Jewish and Israeli history, Hanni Mann-Shalvi explores the dynamics that shape Israeli parenting norms, and simultaneously...
Daring to gaze directly into the core of parenting in Israel, this book presents, for the first time, a study that focuses on the conscious and uncons...
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612,21 |
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Descending with angels: Islamic exorcism and psychiatry: a film monograph
ISBN: 9781526145918 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book and film provide an account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and of how the bodies and souls of Muslim patients are shaped by the conflicting demands of Islam and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states. Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric hospital. His analysis reveals how both psychiatric and Islamic healing work not only to produce relief from pain, but also entail an ethical transformation of the patient and the cultivation of religious and secular values...
This book and film provide an account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and of how the bodies and souls of Muslim patients are sh...
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154,67 |
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Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union: Complaint Mechanisms and Access to Justi
ISBN: 9780367195809 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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759,15 |
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
ISBN: 9780316230049 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,74 |