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The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness

The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness...

Author: Cathy A. Small ,  Jason Kordosky
ISBN: 9781501779046
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship...  Read More >>

Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene

Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant...

Author: Kelly Dombroski
ISBN: 9780816679850
Format: Hardback
$270.00

""Examining the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices, Caring for Life is a call to action, a theory...  Read More >>

Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste

Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies...

Author: Marcelle Trote Martins
ISBN: 9781666942446
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Affective Imageries examines the political use of images depicting wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict...  Read More >>

Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia

Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility...

Author: Tamar R. Shirinian
ISBN: 9781478031116
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Tamar R. Shirinian traces the widespread rhetorics of sexual and moral perversion in postsocialist Armenia, showing...  Read More >>

L. S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works, Volume 4: Pedology of the Adolescent II: Pedology of the Transitional Age as a Psychological and Social Problem

L. S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works, Volume 4: Pedology...

Author: L. S. Vygotsky ,  David Kellogg
ISBN: 9789819715367
Format: Hardback
$448.77

3 Pedology of the Adolescent I: Pedology in the Transitional Age, establishing the borders of pedology, the nature...  Read More >>

Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS

Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS

Author: Anthony Stavrianakis
ISBN: 9781501778322
Format: Paperback
$79.07

""An anthropological inquiry into how people with the neurodegenerative illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis live...  Read More >>

In the Time of Ebola: Youth, Family, and Emergency in Sierra Leone

In the Time of Ebola: Youth, Family, and Emergency in...

Author: Jonah Lipton
ISBN: 9781501778100
Format: Paperback
$76.43

""In the Time of Ebola is a firsthand account and anthropological study of the 2014-16 West African Ebola epidemic,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet

The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet

Author: Gerald Roche
ISBN: 9781501777783
Format: Paperback
$97.55

""Focuses on how Tibet's minority languages are vulnerable to both the Chinese state's aggressive assimilatory policies...  Read More >>

Unsettled Futures: Carceral Circuits and Old Age in Japan

Unsettled Futures: Carceral Circuits and Old Age in...

Author: Jason Danely
ISBN: 9780826507006
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Elderly ex-offenders are some of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Japan today, with high levels of...  Read More >>

Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics

Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition:...

Author: Irma McClaurin ,  Johnnetta Betsch Cole
ISBN: 9781978843295
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the...  Read More >>

Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies: Third International Conference, MSBC 2024, Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 18–20, 2024, Proceedings

Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena...

Author: Nitin Agarwal ,  Leonidas Sakalauskas
ISBN: 9783031722592
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation...  Read More >>

Rules and Reasoning: 8th International Joint Conference, RuleML+RR 2024, Bucharest, Romania, September 16–18, 2024, Proceedings

Rules and Reasoning: 8th International Joint Conference,...

Author: Sabrina Kirrane ,  Mantas Šimkus
ISBN: 9783031724060
Format: Paperback
$171.57

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR...  Read More >>

Gaps and Actions in Health Improvement from Hong Kong and Beyond: All for Health

Gaps and Actions in Health Improvement from Hong Kong...

Author: Ben Yuk Fai Fong ,  William Chi Wai Wong
ISBN: 9789819944934
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health...  Read More >>

Between Jabal ʿAmil, Karbala and Jerusalem: The Lebanese Shi‘a and the Struggle for Palestine

Between Jabal ʿAmil, Karbala and Jerusalem: The Lebanese...

Author: Gidon Windecker
ISBN: 9783031384523
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi’a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority...  Read More >>

China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment

China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment...

Author: Hanna Kupś ,  Maciej Szatkowski
ISBN: 9789004690844
Format: Hardback
$617.76

China under Xi Jinping: an Interdisciplinary Assessment is a comprehensive overview of the reforms and changes that...  Read More >>

Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century

Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the...

Author: Mingwei Huang
ISBN: 9781478031031
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective

Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective

Author: Jenny Boulboullé
ISBN: 9781478030966
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture

Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature,...

Author: Carolin Duttlinger (Professor of German Literature and Culture, University of Oxford; Fellow of Wadham College Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198944362
Format: Paperback
$68.95

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study traces the intertwined histories of attention and distraction from the...  Read More >>

Children as Social Butterflies: Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten

Children as Social Butterflies: Navigating Belonging...

Author: Ursina Jaeger
ISBN: 9781978836983
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Children as Social Butterflies offers an analysis of how children negotiate social belonging. Ursina Jaeger followed...  Read More >>

Progressing Critical Posthuman Perspectives in Health Sociology

Progressing Critical Posthuman Perspectives in Health...

Author: Kim McLeod (University of Tasmania, Australia) ,  Simone Fullagar
ISBN: 9781032812496
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions....  Read More >>

Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern...

Author: Lisa J. Lefler ,  Thomas N. Belt
ISBN: 9780817361914
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues....  Read More >>

Just Live: A Guide to Preventing Suicide and Managing Mental Illness

Just Live: A Guide to Preventing Suicide and Managing...

Author: Dr Jeffrey D Morris
ISBN: 9781958000823
Format: Paperback
$39.57

On October 10, 1997, Jeff Morris attempted suicide for the first time. Over the next decade, Jeff would attempt...  Read More >>

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology: Volume 1: An Epistemological History of Social Anthropology

Towards an Operational Social Anthropology: Volume 1:...

Author: Michel Verdon
ISBN: 9781803819525
Format: Paperback
$31.65

An exploration of social anthropology's failure to explain sociocultural variability.  Read More >>

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