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Sindre Bangstad - Global Flows.jpg
Sindre Bangstad has been engaged in ethnographic research on Cape muslims since 1998. He graduated with a cand.polit. degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen in Norway and has been a PhD Fellow at International Institute for the Study of Islam in the ...
Eugénie Shinkle - Fashion as Photograph (2008).jpg
Despite its significance, visual and cultural studies have paid little attention to fashion photography as a media form. Fashion as Photograph brings together distinguished contributors from the UK, North America, Australia and Europe, to examine the production and ...
David Beckmann - Exodus from Hunger.jpg
Though tremendous improvements in health and education have helped slow the epidemic of global hunger in recent decades, more needs to be done to help lift people out of poverty, says Beckmann, president of the antihunger advocacy group Bread for the World. Beckmann ...
Beatrice I. Bonaf - The Relationship Between State and Individual Responsibility for International Crimes (2009).jpg
While it is settled principle that states incur international responsibility when they commit international crimes and also that international law provides for the criminal responsibility of individuals who commit international crimes, the relationship between ...
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This book provides detailed analyses of systems that have been established to provide reparations to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and the way in which these systems have worked and are working in practice. Many of these systems are described ...
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This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate, studies of urban land use and housing and studies of work and livelihoods. Africa's future will be increasingly urban, and the inherited legal, institutional and financial ...
Richard Sennett - The Craftsman (2008).jpg
With this volume, author and sociologist Sennett (The Culture of the New Capitalism) launches a three-book examination of "material culture," asking "what the process of making concrete things reveals to us about ourselves." Taking in everything from Pandora and ...
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Environmental criminology is a generic label that covers a range of overlapping perspectives. At the core, the various strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a ...
Nina Eliasoph - Avoiding Politics.jpg
"'Listening to the silence,' as Americans struggle to avoid civic engagement, Nina Eliasoph has discovered a terriby important truth: political apathy is not 'natural:' it has to be produced. By showing us how apathy is produced she suggests some ways o produce its ...
Peter N. Stearns - Encyclopedia of European Social History (2001).jpg
Since the 1929 publication of the French journal Annales, social history has gradually become a dominant area of investigation. The social history "paradigm" emphasizes an eclectic study of social processes, popular culture, period "mentalities," revealed where ...
Christopher John Murray - Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought (2004).jpg
This wide-ranging guide to twentieth-century French thought reflects current research, including all of the major disciplines, such as philosophy, literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, and theology.The Encyclopedia's approximately 240 ...
Bob Hale - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (1997).jpg
Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume provides a survey of contemporary philosophy of language. As well as providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts and debates, each essay makes new and original contributions to ...
Michael Devitt and Richard Hanley - The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (2006).jpg
“A superb collection of essays by a virtual who’s who of the philosophy of language today…the articles clearly and helpfully sum up the state of play without erasing their authors’ distinctive perspectives.”–Paul Boghossian, New York University“Devitt ...
Gerald Leonard - The Invention of Party Politics (2007).jpg
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other ...
Wu Xiao-bo - China Emerging.jpg
The rise of China s economy over the past thirty years is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable events in human history. People outside China consider the country s amazing transformation a mystery. Those inside China have been challenged with a colossal task taking more ...
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff - Digital Diasporas.jpg
In the first full-length scholarly study of the increasingly important phenomenon of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff examines how immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin use the Internet. She argues that digital diasporas can ease ...