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Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves

Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food...

Author: Steven Shapin
ISBN: 9780226832210
Format: Hardback
$57.95

What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking...  Read More >>

Living with the Vinaya: An Ethnography of Monasticism in Myanmar

Living with the Vinaya: An Ethnography of Monasticism...

Author: Ryosuke Kuramoto ,  Mark Michael Rowe
ISBN: 9780824897550
Format: Hardback
$198.00

The rules monks live by, the Vinaya, are a pivotal source of meaning for them and their dealings with society and...  Read More >>

Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play

Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics...

Author: Constancio R. Arnaldo, Jr.
ISBN: 9781479820917
Format: Paperback
$66.99

""The book ethnographically captures Filipina/o Americans' participation in sporting cultures and the negotiation...  Read More >>

Linguistic Counter-Standardization: Exploring Liberatory Language Practices around “Japanese”

Linguistic Counter-Standardization: Exploring Liberatory...

Author: Neriko Musha Doerr
ISBN: 9783111572161
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Language standardization is problematic because it imposes a dominant group's linguistic variety as the only correct...  Read More >>

When Modern Became Contemporary Art: The Idea of Australian Art, 1962-1988

When Modern Became Contemporary Art: The Idea of Australian...

Author: Charles Green ,  Heather Barker
ISBN: 9781032759647
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is a portrait of the period when modern art became contemporary art. It explores how and why writers and...  Read More >>

Minority Rights and Social Change: Norms, Actors and Strategies

Minority Rights and Social Change: Norms, Actors and...

Author: Kyriaki Topidi ,  Eugenia Relaño Pastor
ISBN: 9781032467207
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how collective identities are not structurally...  Read More >>

Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child

Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the...

Author: Shana Leodar Ye
ISBN: 9780472077007
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer...  Read More >>

Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden: Writings by Filipina Philosophers

Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden: Writings by...

Author: Tracy Llanera
ISBN: 9781032698694
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume explores the various ways that the concept and practice of resilience inhabit the thinking and lived...  Read More >>

New Perspectives in Health Promotion: Health in All Policies (HiAP)

New Perspectives in Health Promotion: Health in All...

Author: Roar Amdam
ISBN: 9781032587356
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, detailing how policy...  Read More >>

Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora

Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of...

Author: Kirin Narayan
ISBN: 9780226835273
Format: Hardback
$190.95

Exploring family stories reveals the rich history of a seventh-century Buddhist shrine. As a young girl in Bombay,...  Read More >>

Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education

Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education...

Author: Agustina Paglayan
ISBN: 9780691261263
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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The Global Environmental Crisis: The Limitations of Scientific Knowledge and the Necessity of Utopian Imagination

The Global Environmental Crisis: The Limitations of...

Author: John Lie
ISBN: 9781032887241
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Global Environmental Crisis presents a new perspective on our inattention and inaction in the face of a major...  Read More >>

Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World: Systems, Schools and Society

Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth...

Author: Grant Rodwell (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032488134
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting...  Read More >>

The Shortest History of Eugenics: From ""Science"" to Atrocity - How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists

The Shortest History of Eugenics: From ""Science"" to...

Author: Erik Peterson
ISBN: 9781891011887
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global...  Read More >>

Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play

Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics...

Author: Constancio R. Arnaldo, Jr.
ISBN: 9781479820900
Format: Hardback
$196.00

""The book ethnographically captures Filipina/o Americans' participation in sporting cultures and the negotiation...  Read More >>

Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region

Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early...

Author: Kati Kallio ,  Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen
ISBN: 9789004429765
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Societies in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region examines social networks, processes...  Read More >>

We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition

We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition...

Author: Maya Schenwar ,  Kim Wilson
ISBN: 9798888902998
Format: Hardback
$89.99

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition Abolition has never been a proposal...  Read More >>

Custom, Law and the Colonial State in Northeast India: Dynamics and Challenges for the Postcolonial State

Custom, Law and the Colonial State in Northeast India:...

Author: Nandini Bhattacharyya Panda
ISBN: 9781032404790
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume presents a multidimensional analysis of the current operational law – both constitutional and customary...  Read More >>

Social Scientists in the Civic Space: Ethical Perspectives on Democratic Involvement

Social Scientists in the Civic Space: Ethical Perspectives...

Author: Arundhati Virmani ,  Jean Boutier
ISBN: 9781032909851
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes...  Read More >>

Development of Social Theory

Development of Social Theory

Author: James P. Lichtenberger
ISBN: 9781032938943
Format: Hardback
$242.00

First published in 1924, this title was written to expand on an outline of the subject of social theory in order...  Read More >>

National Symbols at the Olympic Games: An Olympics Without Flags?

National Symbols at the Olympic Games: An Olympics Without...

Author: Jörg Krieger (Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032915869
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games. Focusing...  Read More >>

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