"Getting By"

Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia

by Donald Nonini

<p>How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In <em>&quot;Getting By,&quot;</em> Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang ...

ISBN: 9780801456213

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'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

by Mateusz Laszczkowski

<p>Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ...

ISBN: 9781785332579

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$43.14

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'Tribal' Heritage

An Overlooked Chapter of Indian History

by Promode Kumar Misra

<p>The book is a product of life long research in Anthropology by its author. It provides a critique of the concept of tribe and shows that there was never a distinct category of tribe in India. The people now known as tribe have always been, ...

ISBN: 9780692819302

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$14.40

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(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis

by Migliorino, Nicola

<p> For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ...

ISBN: 9780857450579

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“I Don’t See Color”

Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

by Eula Biss

<p>Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking ...

ISBN: 9780271066547

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100 Strokes Of The Brush Before Bed

by Melissa Parente

Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, ...

ISBN: 9781741635058

Binding: CD-Audio

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201 Ways to Involve Parents

Practical Strategies for Partnering With Families

by Betty L. Boult

<p><strong><em>Proactively Develop Parental Involvement for Students’ Growth and Achievement</em></strong><br /> <br /> Years of research and practice show that connecting with families positively impacts student achievement. This book is packed

ISBN: 9781506343167

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22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome

by Rudy Simone

<p>Although having Asperger Syndrome (AS) can make romantic relations difficult, having a fulfilling relationship with an Asperger man is certainly not impossible. A woman in love with a man with AS may interpret his difficulties with ...

ISBN: 9781846429453

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22 Things a Woman with Asperger's Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know

by Rudy Simone

<p>Rudy Simone covers 22 common areas of confusion for someone dating a female with AS and includes advice from her own experience and from other partners in real relationships. She talks with humour and honesty about the quirks and ...

ISBN: 9780857005861

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24/7

Schlaflos im Spätkapitalismus

by Jonathan Crary

Die globale Infrastruktur des pausenlosen Einkaufens, Arbeitens und Kommunizierens 24 Stunden am Tag und an sieben Tagen der Woche hält mittlerweile bereits die gesamte Menschheit wach. Antischlafmittel sind das neue Lifestyleprodukt, um ...

ISBN: 9783803141651

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$19.99

30-Second Anthropology

The 50 most important ideas in the study of being human, each explained in half a minute

by Simon Underdown

<i>30-Second Anthropology</i> explores humanity through 50 key biological and social topics, revealing how we have evolved from chimp-like ancestors to being able to send rockets to Mars. ...

ISBN: 9781782405450

Binding: Hardback

$27.99

44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World - Understanding Our Time

by Zygmunt Bauman

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we ...

ISBN: 9780745650579

Binding: Paperback

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50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality

by Pepper Schwartz

<p><i>50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality</i> seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the author?s believe ...

ISBN: 9780470674345

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9 Lives Of Alexander Baddenfield, The

by Bemelmans Marciano John

Most people have one life to live, but Alexander has nine. After stealing the nine lives from his cat, Alexander Baddenfield makes death an adventure. He jumps off the Empire State Building, is swallowed by a giant python, and even

ISBN: 9780147512338

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$12.99

A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families

Lessons for the Leaders of Tomorrow

by Linda Hughes-Kirchubel, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth & David S. Riggs

<p>This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.S. deployments to create an action plan for supporting military and veteran families during future conflicts. Its innovative ideas stretch beyond designated ...

ISBN: 9783319689845

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A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory

by Shaun Best

`This book is accessible, as a beginner's guide should be, but without an over-simplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text for generations of students to come' - <b><i>John Hughes, Lancaster University</p> ...

ISBN: 9781446223536

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A Book of Remarkable Criminals

by H. B. Irving

ISBN: 1230000623100

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$1.39

A Cautious Silence

The Politics of Australian Anthropology

by Geoffrey Gray

This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology to examine the forces that helped shaped its formation. Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia. ...

ISBN: 9780855755515

Binding: Paperback

$39.95

A Child of One's Own

Parental Stories

by Rachel Bowlby

<p>Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But ...

ISBN: 9780191501852

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A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

The Irish Civil War

by Padraig Yeates

<p><strong>The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates’ ‘Dublin at War’ trilogy</strong> </p> <p>In <em>A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924</em>, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland’s bloody and ...

ISBN: 9780717167241

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