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Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes The Economy - Viviana A. ZelizerOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. Th...... |
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A Handbook For The Study Of Mental HealthThe second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading schola...... |
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Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory - Chris RumfordThe book advances a provocative critical reading of both globalization theory and contemporary Europe. Concerned with questions of space, borders and governa...... |
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Globalization, The City And Civil Society In Pacific AsiaGlobalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues of urban life in the Far Ea...... |
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Stadium WorldsAnalyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. An international multi-discipli...... |
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Milk, Modernity And The Making Of The Human - Richie NimmoThis book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its role in th...... |
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Poverty Capital - Ananya RoyThis is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless. Instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful... |
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China And Globalization: The Social, Economic And Political Transformation Of Chinese Society - Doug GuthrieIn this new, revised edition author Doug Guthrie updates his story on modern China and provides the latest authoritative data and examples from current event...... |
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Back To The Land - Dona BrownFor many, “going back to the land” brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s—hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and M...... |
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The Well-being Of The Elderly In AsiaThe past two decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and demographic change in East and South-East Asia. The older populations in these regions have b...... |
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Speechless - Bruce BarryIn this troubling analysis of recent trends in the workplace, Vanderbilt professor of management and sociology Bruce Barry shows how Americans' increasing wi...... |
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Crazy Little Thing - Liz LangleyCrazy Little Thing is a look at why we want to be in love and the burbling, boiling soup of endorphins, hormones, and neurotransmitters that spill from our b...... |
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Mass Deception - Prof. Scott BonnThe attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that Saddam Hussein was linked to Osama bin Laden nor proof of... |
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Leadership From The Margins - Prof. Serena CosgroveLeadership from the Margins describes and analyzes the unique leadership styles and challenges facing the women leaders of civil society organizations (CSO...... |
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Comprehending Drug Use - , Prof. Merrill SingerComprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred year...... |
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Women And The Animal Rights Movement - Emily GaarderWomen and the Animal Rights Movement combats stereotypes of women activists as mere sentimentalists by exploring the political and moral character of t...... |
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Discretionary Justice - Prof. Leslie PaikJuvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the thera...... |
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Feminist PracticesWomen continue to be very under-represented in the architectural profession, which has become defined by a narrow middle-class, heterosexual, Eurasian male p...... |
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Starstruck - Michael Joseph GrossWhy are we so obsessed with fame? In Starstruck, former autograph hound and current entertainment journalist Michael Joseph Gross searches for the answer as ...... |
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Eating Disorders And Magical Control Of The Body - Mary LevensDrawing on anthroplogy, religion, literature and psychoanalysis Levens discusses the images which eating disorder patients create in art therapy and the impl...... |
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