In 1999, the European Peoples Party (EPP) emerged as the largest political group in the European Parliament, maintaining its dominance for more than 25 years and influencing the direction of the EU through five consecutive Presidencies of the Europ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197774823)
Becoming Digital Citizens explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. Based on rich empirical evidence, this book examines the citizenship status of...Loe edasi...
Stories related to gendered social relations permeate the Quran, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls. These stories weave together theology and ethics to reinforce central Quranic ideas regarding submission to God and mo...Loe edasi...
Research Design Using Systemic Thinking provides a fresh approach to conducting research, emphasising the importance of systemic thinking as a framework for structuring scientific inquiry. Research Design Using Systemic Th...Loe edasi...
Christianity in the Indian subcontinent is as old as Christianity itself, although Christians have consistently remained a small minority within the broader population. This book delves into the encounters between Christianity and the Indian peopl...Loe edasi...
Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers reflects an ethnographic journey shaped by ancestral strength, resilience, and reverence. It is not merely academic—it is ceremonial: a remembering, a return, and a love song to generations yet to come....Loe edasi...
Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers reflects an ethnographic journey shaped by ancestral strength, resilience, and reverence. It is not merely academic—it is ceremonial: a remembering, a return, and a love song to generations yet to come....Loe edasi...
Constantin Nikiforoff was educated by premier Russian soil scientists but fled after the 1917 revolution. A refugee with no formal credentials or documentation, he arrived in the USA in 1921. He was hired in 1927 and started surveying and studying s...Loe edasi...
Research Design Using Systemic Thinking provides a fresh approach to conducting research, emphasising the importance of systemic thinking as a framework for structuring scientific inquiry.This book offers a comprehensive guide to nav...Loe edasi...
This volume delves into the colonial past and identifies papers on nature and natural phenomenon that were deemed ‘primitive’ and ‘superstitious’ by those who narrated them and analyzed them in the pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Socie...Loe edasi...
When most people hear the word witch, they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied...Loe edasi...
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How do we hold onto friends and communities in a world that feels increasingly fragmented?This timely collection explores how social connection unfolds across personal, physic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197626320)
Victory and Celebration: An Introduction to Greek Athletics explores how the poems, statues, and other objects used by athletic victors to commemorate their victories in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE gave value and meaning to these victories. Th...Loe edasi...
Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece--how being a good boxer, or having a fast son or good horses was made into something significant in society more...Loe edasi...
Sari: Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032309415)
This book explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped urban spatialities through the rise of digitally mediated temporal spaces in Calcutta. Focusing on Uber-enabled mobility, cycling pathways, and cafés, it examines how digital infrastructures...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847928405)
What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as the hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less real or true than the grief we feel over the death of a loved one? Even if the plot of an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197689875)
The second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology explores facets of human behavior, thoughts, and feelings experienced in the context of media use and creation. The volume spans foundational theories and methodological approaches, prese...Loe edasi...
This book considers how the rapid arrival of China has brought visions of development which converge and contest what has gone before, and how these inform individual and collective aspirations on the ground in Laos. This book uses...Loe edasi...
The Mayan peoples of highland Guatemala live within an animate world, where the physical environment, ancestors, and surrounding people, plants, and animals are infused with spirit and presence.At the heart of this daily engagement are...Loe edasi...
Welfare racism is a combination of racial discrimination in the welfare system and racist discourses used in the name of the welfare state. Presenting a global overview of discourses of welfare racism across the world by institutional actors, publ...Loe edasi...
Exhaustively researched and updated, South Asia 2024 is an in-depth library of information on the countries and territories of this vast world region.General SurveyEssays by specialists examine issues of regional importance.Country SurveysIndividual...Loe edasi...
For example, many content analyses examine reporting about the migrants (especially the Turks) but neglect various diversity categories (e.g., gender, age). Therefore, this volume analyzes the contribution that critical ethnological perspectives...Loe edasi...
What happens when the structures of oppression we live under seep into our very being, shaping how we think, feel, and relate to one another? The Structure Within explores the powerful interplay between personal histories and systemic inequalities,...Loe edasi...
What happens when the structures of oppression we live under seep into our very being, shaping how we think, feel, and relate to one another? The Structure Within explores the powerful interplay between personal histories and systemic inequalities,...Loe edasi...
Ghosts spoke. Women listened. Everything changed. It began with whispers in a dimly lit room. In the 1840s, the Fox Sistersand the legions of mediums they inspiredignited the Spiritualist movement that swept through Victorian parlors and p...Loe edasi...
This book documents linguistic practices and ideologies toward language, identity, and nationalism among 35 members of the first generation in Spain to grow up with democracy and Catalan language normalization. Part I reproduces, translate...Loe edasi...
THE BESTSELLING BUSINESS CLASSIC TRUSTED BY SUCCESSFUL LEADERS ALL OVER THE WORLDCommand attention, charm your superiors, and win people over wherever you go. How to Win Friends and Influence People has helped thousands of readers gain self-co...Loe edasi...
Using the concept of musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, Gavin Robert Walker reveals how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in...Loe edasi...
The second edition of this popular textbook provides a current and comprehensive understanding of sex and gender that incorporates biological, psychological, and social approaches. Using both scientific and feminist approaches in its analysis, thi...Loe edasi...
The second edition of this popular textbook provides a current and comprehensive understanding of sex and gender that incorporates biological, psychological and social approaches. Using both scientific and feminist approaches in its analysis, the...Loe edasi...
The Image of Africa in Italian Popular Music is an innovative, well-documented and provocative study which explains the how Africa and Africans are portrayed in Italian music, and how African-Italian musicians contribute to the decolonization...Loe edasi...
The Dialectics of Two Refusals endeavors to use the multifarious optics of “China” to critically reinterpret and rehistoricize a wide set of Western cinematic representations of the 1968 disruptions beyond the traditional epistemological confines of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560027)
Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory examines the ethnographic dilemmas that arose across the run of the Raising Spirit project. This book asks what ethnography can be in the era of reconciliation based on this multi-year, multimodal, colla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487563950)
For author Janna Klostermann, reaching her limits and resigning from care work felt like a crisis of self. In the aftermath of this upheaval, this is the book she needed to write. At the Limits of Care is a book that will change how you t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487563943)
For author Janna Klostermann, reaching her limits and resigning from care work felt like a crisis of self. In the aftermath of this upheaval, this is the book she needed to write. At the Limits of Care is a book that will change how you t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774871822)
Offers advice using first-hand experiences navigating the ethics of researching the wellbeing of refugees. In the aftermath of the war in Syria, Canada and Germany welcomed thousands of refugees. Scholars in both countries conducted st...Loe edasi...
The book examines ethnographic insights into how everyday conceptualizations of justice emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by differently positioned actors at work on Assams tea plantations. Four workings of justice are analyze...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560010)
Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory examines the ethnographic dilemmas that arose across the run of the Raising Spirit project. This book asks what ethnography can be in the era of reconciliation based on this multi-year, multimodal, colla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487565701)
How do our beliefs about living with chronic illness shape the way we approach treatment and care?Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resist...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487522209)
Filipino Migrants and the Canadian Dream explores the power of the Canadian dream and how this social imaginary is leveraged by various institutional actors across transnational networks to govern mobility and work in the bottom tiers of a g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487502935)
Filipino Migrants and the Canadian Dream explores the power of the Canadian dream and how this social imaginary is leveraged by various institutional actors across transnational networks to govern mobility and work in the bottom tiers of a g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529236057)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, this book analyses how Indigenous peasant women who have experienced reproductive violence describe the harms of forced sterilization and the complexities of using human and reproductive rights frameworks t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872126)
Examines the legality of assisted suicide in Canada. Should people have the right to medical assistance in dying? If so, under what conditions? Deciding on Death delves into the legal and political aspects of these controversial...Loe edasi...
This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s theory of the state in relation to the social sciences. In this text, Skornicki deconstructs the pseudo-obviousness in Foucauldian thought, namely that Michel Foucault’s new approach in political p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646427291)
Angalkut/Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition collects over thirty years’ worth of shaman stories, told as part of gatherings organized by the Calista Elders Council to document Yup’ik traditional knowledge. These conversations highlight the criti...Loe edasi...
Labor on the Line provides insights into the worlds largest tea-growing region of Assam. Anna-Lena Wolf examines everyday conceptualizations of justice: how they emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by diff...Loe edasi...
