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Industrialisation and Society
by Eric Hopkins  Publisher Comments An essential introduction to the effects of industrialisation on British society, from Queen Victoria's reign to the birth of the Welfare State in the 1940s. it includes sections on the Victorian inheritance and the two world wars....
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Hyperreality and Global Culture
by Publisher Comments First full length discussion of hyperreality. Perry provides the reader with a full length discussion of the origins of the concept, nuances of meaning and case studies of hyperrealism - European tourism, American telivision etc....
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Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India
by Synopsis The Lightman historian duo profiles the lives of women from archaic Greece in the seventh century BCE to the fall of Rome in 476 CE. Their subjects come from throughout the Greek and Roman world, and include poet Julia Balbilla of second-century BCE...
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Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia
by Patrick Vinton Kirch Publisher Comments An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki....
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Bringing Ritual to Mind
by Robert N. McCauley Publisher Comments Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the cognitive and psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals must motivate them to...
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Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial
by John Cornwell Publisher Comments On September 14, 1989, Joseph Wesbecker entered a Louisville, Kentucky printing plant and shot twenty people with an automatic rifle before turning the gun on himself. Wesbecker had been severely depressed and was taking Prozac, and the families of the...
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Shaman, Saiva and Sufi: A Study of The Evolution of Malay Magic
by R. O. Winstedt Publisher Comments A scholarly, fascinating 'Study Of The Evolution Of Malay Magic'....
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Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People
by Jon Entine Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of "Taboo" comes a provocative and controversial book about how genetics is transforming our understanding of race, ethnicity, and religion....
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The Kitsch
by Publisher Comments Kitsch-or tacky, simplistic art and art forms-is used by various political actors to shape and limit what we know about ourselves, what we know about our past and our future, as well as what our present-day public policy options might be. Using a...
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Peripheral Visions
by Mary C. Bateson Publisher Comments Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to...
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Cultural Politics in the Third World
by Mehran Kamrava Synopsis This text examines the subtle and multi-faceted relationships between culture and politics in developing countries. With its contextualisation of culture, this book will be of interest to students and academics concerned with this field....
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Second Nature
by Haim Ofek Publisher Comments Explores how market forces and economics can help answer fundamental questions of human evolution....
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Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain
by Lawrence Goldman Publisher Comments This book is a study of the relationships between social thought, social policy and politics in Victorian Britain. Goldman focuses on the activity of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, known as the Social Science Association...
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The Multicultural Riddle
by Gerd Baumann Publisher Comments A comprehensive exploration of all the issues that shape our search for a multicultural society....
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Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond
by Walter Armbrust Publisher Comments Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an...
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Sociology, Work and Industry
by Publisher Comments Thoroughly revised and presented in a new and accessible format this third edition will prove an indispensable guide to a massive and complex field....
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Animism Or Thought Currents Of Primitive Peoples
by George William Gilmore Publisher Comments First there is the avenue of cult, where definite acts of devotion or gift (sacrifice) unfailingly indicate belief in the sentient and potent capabilities of the object addressed. It is obvious that even the most naive of savages pay no attention of this...
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The State of Human Nature
by Ryan Kueter Publisher Comments The State of Human Nature is a penetrating analysis on the human condition that seeks to explain human behavior and human societies by looking at the mechanisms that are rooted deeply within human biology, to understand how they shape everything in human...
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
by Arturo Escobar Publisher Comments How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third...
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The Other Side of Eden
by Hugh Brody Publisher Comments A brilliantly evoked journey into the core of human history and the destiny of the world's hunting peoples....
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