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Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain

by Louise Miskell

The four national associations studied in this book are the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (NAPSS), the Royal Archaeological...


Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability: Theory, Practice, and Product

by Donia Zhang

Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data...


What It Feels Like To Be Me

by Jenny Salaman Manson

This book is about being alone in our heads. It gives a rare glimpse of what other people feel like: to read it is to reflect on our own experience of being. People hide behind their appearance in order to get...


The Northern Farm

by Henry Beston

In the tradition of his well-loved The Outermost House, Henry Beston's Northern Farm captures "the elusive magic of a year on a Kennebee farm...in truly beautiful prose" (Kirkus Reviews).  Among the blue-white...


Multiple Case Study Analysis

by Robert E. Stake

Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development...


An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

by Inger Furseth & Pål| Repstad

An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion provides an overview of sociological theories of contemporary religious life. Some chapters are organized according to topic. Others offer brief presentations of...


Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

by Colin Crouch

The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy...


Acting Bodies and Social Networks: A Bridge Between Technology and Working Memory

by Bianca Maria Pirani

This book analyzes the complex interactions of body, mind and microelectronic technologies. Internationally renowned scholars look into the nature of the mind - a combination of thought, perception, emotion,...


Hidden Threads: A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory

by Russell Heddendorf

Heddendorf finds in sociological theories some 'hidden threads' - Christian principles woven into the fabric of society. This book is an examination and Christian critique of sociological theory, demonstrating...


Sociological Conclusions on Identity Discourses

by Julia Dittrich

The sociological examination of identity phenomena is complex and stands in an interdisciplinary field of science. Identity is a basal topic in academic analysises that deal with the individual-society interrelation,...


Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

by Emily Matchar

Amid today’s rising anxieties—the economy, the scary state of the environment, the growing sense that the American Dream hasn’t turned out to be so dreamy after all—a groundswell of women (and more than...


China's Internal and International Migration

by Li Peilin & Laurence Roulleau-Berger

One consequence of China's economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese...


National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

by Gérard Bouchard

National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities....


The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China's Freudian Slip

by Tao Jiang & Philip J. Ivanhoe

Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian...


Christianity and Critical Realism: Ambiguity, Truth and Theological Literacy

by Andrew Wright

One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively 'pure', uncontaminated by the subjectivity...


Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl

by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux & Laura Taylor

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for "nature" brings...


De-Bordering Korea: Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy

by Valérie Gelézeau, De Koen Ceuster & Alain Delissen

As tensions remain on the Korean peninsula, this book looks back on the decade of improved inter-Korean relations and engagement between 1998 and 2008, now known as the 'Sunshine Policy' era. Moving beyond traditional...


Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject

by Nandini Bhattacharya

Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code...


Builders: Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry

by Darren Thiel

Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies,...


The Lahu Minority in Southwest China: A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier

by Jianxiong Ma

The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han...