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British Stratigraphy

This book is primarily intended to assist candidates studying geology for the Ordinary Level of G.c.E., and examinations of comparable st...

General Theory of Knowledge

to that goal, and it is hoped that it will incorporate further works dealing in an exact way with interesting philosophical issues. Züric...

Power Through Discourse

This volume represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and behavior in both formal public negotiation, as well as ...

Spectacular Vernaculars - Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism

Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the ...

Modern Greek Lessons - A Primer in Historical Constructivism

Through a blend of lively detail and elegant narration, James Faubion immerses us in the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a cent...

Improving Survey Questions - Design and Evaluation

What is a good question? Although there are several potential sources for error in survey data, the validity of surveys is dependent upon...

Vision, Race, and Modernity - A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World

Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the rol...

Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times

Marvin Harris is arguably the most influential, prolific anthropological theorist of our time. This book brings together many of the stra...

The Anthropology of Globalization - Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of...

Time - Perspectives at the Millennium (the Study of Time X)

The articles here are not only about time, they are investigations from a specific temporal perspective: the calendrical event of the mil...

The Hippie Trip

The Road to Life - An Epic of Education

Jukeboxes - An American Social History

This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s up to ...

Atlantis and Lemuria

Flesh and Blood - Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence

Sociologists and criminologists have long known that there is a relationship between masculinity and crime. Indeed, gender has been advan...

Library Anxiety - Theory, Research, and Applications

The authors provide us with the first in depth look at the origins and subsequent evolution of this fascinating field of study. Beginning...

Proverbs - A Handbook

Proverbs offer a concise record of folk wisdom and have appeared in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture for centuries. W...

African Political Systems

One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a...

How to Change the World - Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. Bornstein profiles nine of these driven, creat...

The Ascent of Man

In the Ascent of Man Henry Drummond gives his take on Evolution. He sees evolution as divinely guided-a position that made him no friends...

Jennifer Lopez - A Biography

One of Hollywood's first openly Latin stars, Jennifer Lopez has held fast to her New York Bronx roots, while rising above them to become ...

Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure - A Handbook

Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imaginatio...

The Case against Perfection - Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

What is wrong with re-engineering genetics? In this work, Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyo...

Women's Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond

Despite women's presence in migration streams since the mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a significantly...

The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record.

Subjective Well-Being - A Ukrainian Case Study

Interest in subjective well-being has led to a plethora of literature in recent years but there remains some debate about what precisely ...

The Religious Crisis of the 1960s

The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change. In the Christian churches it was a time of innovation, from the 'new theology' and '...

Practicing Archaeology - An Introduction to Cultural Resources Archaeology

This book is an excellent reference tool for consulting firms, contractors, graduate students, and others who need to know the nuts and b...

The Negro Church

W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the...

High Priest of California

High Priest of California is a the first published novel by Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 - March 27, 1988). Willeford was a...

Feelings are the pathway to your soul - A reader of Bob Moore talks

This present collection mainly includes texts about develop-ment and the right attitude to growth of mind and com-passion. Bob Moore¿s te...

Solving 9-11 - The Deception That Changed the World

An independent analysis of the events of September 11, 2001. Includes historical and geo-political background and examines the motivation...

Faces around the World - A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social...

The Life of Captain James Cook

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of the...

Misleading Trajectories - Integration Policies for Young Adults in Europe?

It is commonly acknowledged that the risk of social exclusion has increased over the last few decades and that young people in particular...

Funerals in Africa - Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West dea...

The Limbic System

107 with treatments that affect the arousal of the animals is also implied on the basis of the behavioral changes induced in the lesioned...

Betting on Famine - Why the World Still Goes Hungry

"Originally published in France as Destruction massive: Geopolitique de la faim by Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2011"--Title page verso.

The Words and Music of Melissa Etheridge

For a quarter century, Melissa Etheridge has been one of the most iconic and prolific female rock musicians. This book critically examine...

Digital Death - Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age

This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to ...

Eating Together - Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

This book analyzes cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker cent...

Happiness - Ten Years of n+1

The first anthology of America's foremost intellectual magazine. n+1 appeared in the fall of 2004, the brainchild of a group of writers w...

Digital Ethnography - Principles and Practice

Providing readers with the introduction to doing research into digital cultures and technologies, this book considers the methodological,...

People and Nature 2e P

Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the intera...

One Thousand and One English Proverbs Translated into Arabic - ¿¿

This is a collection of the most well-known English proverbs translated into Arabic. In this case, the book serves as a reference for Ara...

Geographical Information Systems in Urban Archaeology and Urban Planning - A case study of a modern Greek city, built on top of an ancient city

The book focuses on the implications of discovering archaeological layers during construction works in modern cities for both urban archa...

Head in the Cloud

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most ca...

The United States of Europe on the eve of the Parliament of Peace

The United States of Europe on the eve of the Parliament of Peace is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. ...

Living Digital 2040 - Future of Work, Education, and Healthcare

Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies. How can people thrive as their lives are disrupted ...

Holbraad & Pedersen, The Ontological Turn - An Anthropological Exposition

This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary so...

Heroines - Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History

The idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery....

How to Invent Everything - Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

Ryan North is the (New York Times bestselling, Eisner-award winning) creator of Dinosaur Comics, the co-editor of the Machine of Death se...

Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes - A Narrative Ecosystem Framework

Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework¿the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem¿for the analysis of ser...

The Wake of the Whale - Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic

Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt w...

Artifak - Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around va...

Experimental Collaborations - Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into...

Marketing Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe

This title was first published in 2001. Successful international marketing requires the development and implementation of marketing strat...

The Book of Halloween

The Book of Halloween (1919) gives the reader an account of the origin and history of Halloween and how it absorbed customs belonging to ...

Seduction - Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy

Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can culti...

Shock Therapy - Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connecti...