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  • Cannibal Metaphysics

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Series series Univocal
    The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in which nature and culture, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities eBook

    Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action

    Edited by Professor A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, Professor David W. Brokensha ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities

    Edited by A. Peter Castro ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Getting Better

    Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

    by Charles Kenny ...
    As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Transforming India

    by Sumantra Bose ...
    A nation of 1.25 billion, India is the world's most diverse democracy. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and experience of Indian politics, Sumantra Bose tells the story of democracy's evolution in India since the 1950s and describes the challenges it faces today: from poverty and inequality to Maoist revolutionaries and Kashmir secessionists. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • What is Metaphysics?

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century". Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the Stanford ... Read more

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  • Identity Destabilised

    Living in an Overheated World

    Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Elisabeth Schober ...
    The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.This collection explores social identities in today’s ‘overheated’ world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meta Math!

    The Quest for Omega

    by Gregory Chaitin ...
    Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of ... Read more

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  • The Slow Boil

    Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

    by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Knowledge Production in the Arab World

    The Impossible Promise

    by Sari Hanafi, Rigas Arvanitis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a ‘knowledge economy,’ yet little time has been invested in the region’s fragmented scientific institutions; institutions that should ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Argentina under the Kirchners eBook

    The legacy of left populism

    by Marcela Lopez Levy ...
    Series Book 3 - Latin America Bureau Special Report
    In 2003 Néstor Kirchner took power in a country still reeling from financial meltdown. He set out to reverse the extreme neo-liberal policies of the 1990s, and ruled through heady years of unprecedented economic growth. Néstor was one half of a political couple -- his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the race for the top job in 2007 and they swapped roles. In 2011 she was voted in for a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Everyday Multiculturalism and ‘Hidden’ Hate

    by Stevie-Jade Hardy ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines the lived reality of 'everyday multiculturalism', and the ways that young people make sense of the diverse world around them. Currently we know very little about how multiculturalism shapes our lives, our interactions and our identity. This is especially pertinent for young people. How do young people from largely white, disadvantaged backgrounds interpret multiculturalism? How ... Read more

    $134.09 USD