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Peggy C. Giordano - Legacies of Crime.jpg
Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys who were followed over a twenty-year period as they navigated the transition to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - ...
Mangai Natarajan - Women Police in a Changing Society (2008).jpg
Offering a fascinating account of the development of women police over the past twenty years, this book draws on the author's extended research in India to examine how the Indian experience offers a valuable alternative to the Anglo-American model; not only for ...
Elizabeth Emma Ferry - Not Ours Alone.jpg
Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of ...
David Atkinson - Cultural Geography.jpg
As geography has become influenced by such themes such as postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have been forced to engage with ideas and concepts from outside the traditional boundaries of their subject. This exciting new work provides them ...
Beth A. Simmons - The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy (2008).jpg
The diffusion of markets and democracy around the world was a defining feature of the late twentieth century. Many social scientists view this economic and political liberalization as the product of independent choices by national governments. This book argues that ...
Margaret Schabas - The Natural Origins of Economics (2007).jpg
References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade, and commerce ...
Milan Zafirovski - Market and Society.jpg
Treating the market as a complex social category, and not just as a purely economic phenomenon, this book presents two frameworks for analyzing the market in relation to society. After presenting first the economic framework and then the sociological framework, the ...
Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth (2004).jpg
Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using ...
Philip Mirowski - The Road from Mont Pelerin.jpg
What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism’s origins and growth as a political and economic movement.Although modern neoliberalism was born at the “Colloque Walter ...
Eva Jane Neumann Fridman - Shamanism.jpg
Shamanism has its origins in early human history and is as ubiquitous as the human desire to penetrate the mysteries of the supernatural. For millennia shamans have traveled into the realm of the spirits, hunting lost souls, healing the sick, interpreting dreams, and ...
Michael Carrithers - The Buddha.jpg
In this valuable introduction, Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give us about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time and ...
William Houston.jpg
We can do without oil - as we did until the latter years of the Nineteenth Century - but we cannot do without water; without it we die. Whilst debates on fossil fuel reserves rage and tensions over oil fields and supplies continue, this new groundbreaking book urges the focus to ...
Stevphen Shukaitis - Imaginal Machines (2009).jpg
All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But ...
Anat Zanger - Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise (2007).jpg
The first full-length history of the remake in cinema, Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales—Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho—to ...
Samuel Cohn - When Strikes Make Sense--And Why.jpg
Cohn construct[s] the most extensive and sophisticated analysis of strikes' outcomes that anyone has ever done... With exemplary clarity, Cohn lays out his ideas, sources, methods, findings, substantive conclusions, and strategic inferences. Informed readers are ...
Mark E Davis - Bauman's Challenge.jpg
This unique and original collection by internationally renowned scholars uses critical engagements with Baumans sociology to identify and better understand the challenges that face globalized human societies at the start of the twenty-first century.