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Politics of Culture in Iran: Anthropology, Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781138869790 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and how they were appropriated, and rejected, by the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes. The author highlights the three main phases of Iranian anthropology, corresponding broadly to three periods in the social and political development of Iran: *the period of nationalism: lasting approximately from the... This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth c... |
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An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction
ISBN: 9781138645981 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of evermore stuff. But these are not intrinsic features of money, but, rather, of debt money. This text shows that, through studying money in other... Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the questio... |
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The Social Basis of Community Care (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9781138903364 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy. Martin Bulmer argues that this policy is inadequately thought out and rests on a series of poorly founded sociological assumptions. As a result there is a vacuum at the heart of government s social care policy which is likely to lead to ineffective or deteriorating provision for those in need. This book, first published in 1987, will be essential reading for all those concerned with the organization and delivery of social care, whether as students, practitioners or... Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy. Martin Bulmer argues that ... |
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Failure or Reform?: Market-Based Policy Instruments for Sustainable Agriculture and Resource Management
ISBN: 9781138223394 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? This book examines numerous empirical examples of policy in action to identify principles for the successful application of market-based policy instruments. Where some market instruments are used to fix market failures by putting a value on environmental protection, others use market-like mechanisms to allocate financial incentives for environmental work. They are promoted as flexible, efficient and politically neutral solutions to the competing demands of...
Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? This book examines ...
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North Africans in Contemporary France: Becoming Visible
ISBN: 9781349732913 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Derderian looks at the large North African population in France and their attempts for recognition in a country which has long denied its rich immigration past and present.
Derderian looks at the large North African population in France and their attempts for recognition in a country which has long denied its rich immigra...
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George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London
ISBN: 9781349732661 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics" celebrates the lives, literature, and politics of three close friends of Orwell's
"George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics" celebrates the lives, literature, and politics of three close friends of Orwell's
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201,24 |
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International Business: European Dimensions
ISBN: 9781349662753 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This seventh volume in the AIB series focuses on the European dimensions of international business, and presents the work of leading international business scholars delivered at the 26th Academy of International Business conference at the University of Stirling.
This seventh volume in the AIB series focuses on the European dimensions of international business, and presents the work of leading international bus...
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Football in Africa: Conflict, Conciliation and Community
ISBN: 9781349661534 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking collection provides the first detailed social analysis of football within Africa. The book should be compulsory reading, for social scientists in sport studies and African studies and for informed football followers everywhere.
This groundbreaking collection provides the first detailed social analysis of football within Africa. The book should be compulsory reading, for socia...
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The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers
ISBN: 9781349634231 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. By doing so, The Open Book offers a fresh and pragmatic opening onto the relation between personal, cultural and institutional history on the one hand, and literary history on the other.
The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. By doing so, The Open Book offers a fresh a...
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Higher Education, Research, and Knowledge in the Asia Pacific Region
ISBN: 9781349532544 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the first books to focus on different national perspectives of knowledge production and research in higher education in the Asia-Pacific region, it compares, contrasts, and critically analyzes how policy in Asia-Pacific countries is furthering a supportive (or non-supportive) environment for the promotion of research within higher education.
One of the first books to focus on different national perspectives of knowledge production and research in higher education in the Asia-Pacific region...
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Ambivalence and the Structure of Political Opinion
ISBN: 9781349529070 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays by a distinguished group of political scientists and social psychologists provide a conceptual framework for understanding how ambivalence is currently understood and measured, as well as its relevance to the mass public's beliefs about our political institutions and national identity.
Essays by a distinguished group of political scientists and social psychologists provide a conceptual framework for understanding how ambivalence is c...
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Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action
ISBN: 9781349526482 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics. In the face of economic globalization and a regulatory vacuum, consumers increasingly take responsibility in their own hands, making the market an important venue for political action through their decisions of what to purchase.
Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics. In the face of economic globalization and a regulatory vacuum, consum...
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Jane Austen and Modernization: Sociological Readings
ISBN: 9781349505005 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of Austen were heavily influenced by these early developments in sociology.
Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. D...
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The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era: An International and Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781349504909 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber meets Michel Foucault, Beatrice Hibou analyzes the political dynamics underlying this process. Neoliberal bureaucracy is a vector of discipline and control, producing social and political indifference.
Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber meet...
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Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay: Identity and Meaning
ISBN: 9781349483839 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revised and updated version of the author's El detenido-desaparecido: narrativas posibles para una catastrofe de la identidad, published in 2008.
Revised and updated version of the author's El detenido-desaparecido: narrativas posibles para una catastrofe de la identidad, published in 2008.
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Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues
ISBN: 9781349479023 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by Francois Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works."
Edited by Francois Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, addresses fund...
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Foundations of Disability Studies
ISBN: 9781349476626 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the field to its current state. Includes contributions from Robert Bogdan, Doug Biklen, Susan Schweik, and more.
A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the field ...
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State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9781349475032 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For states in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the "Arab Spring" has had different implications and consequences, stemming from the politics of identity and the historical and political processes that have shaped development. This book focuses on how these factors interact with globalization and affect state formation.
For states in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the "Arab Spring" has had different implications and consequences, stemming from the poli...
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The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West
ISBN: 9781349469802 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Samuel Huntington predicted, but because it is adopting Western institutions. The emerging global order offers unprecedented opportunities for the expansion of peace, prosperity, and freedom. Yet this is not the 'end of history', but the beginning of a post-Western future for the democratic project. The major conflicts of the future will occur between the established democracies of the West and emerging democracies in the developing world as they...
This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Sa...
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Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World
ISBN: 9781349452842 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present.
This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient ...
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