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  • The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

    Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, Philip Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full theoretical and methodological vitality of this critically significant new area.The Handbook gathers together works ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

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    A Guide for Small- and Medium-Sized Libraries

    by Raymond Ranier ...
    As the mission statements of libraries across the nation change to reflect the realities of post-liberal America and its emphasis on economic values, librarians have had to pick up their long-standing paradigm and move it in an endless shuffle from knowledge stewardship, to information broker, to entertainment director. Many library boards have made it clear that the public library, especially in ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Black on Black

    Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience

    by Celeste A. Fisher ...
    Images of violent black masculinity are not new in American culture, but in the late 1980s and early '90s, the social and economic climate in the country contributed to an unprecedented number of films about ghetto life. And while Hollywood reaped financial gains from these depictions, the rest of the country saw an ever widening "opportunity gap" between marginalized groups and mainstream society ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia

    Oil, Gas, and Modernization

    by Vladimir Gel'man, Otar Marganiya, Nikolay Dobronravin, Andrey Scherbak, Dmitry Travin, Andrey Zaostrovtsev ...
    By the end of the 2000s, the term "resource curse" had become so widespread that it had turned into a kind of magic keyword, not only in the scholarly language of the social sciences, but also in the discourse of politicians, commentators and analysts all over the world--like the term "modernization" in the early 1960s or "transition" in the early 1990s. In fact, the aggravation of many problems ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Deception

    Edited by Timothy R. Levine ...
    The Encyclopedia of Deception examines lying from multiple perspectives drawn from the disciplines of social psychology, sociology, history, business, political science, cultural anthropology, moral philosophy, theology, law, family studies, evolutionary biology, philosophy, and more. From the "little white lie," to lying on a resume, to the grandiose lies of presidents, this two-volume reference ... Read more

    $323.99 USD

  • Management in the Social and Safety Services

    Edited by Norman C. Hunt, W. D. Reekie ...
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Great Cities of the World

    Their government, Politics and Planning

    Edited by W.A. Robson ...
    The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity

    Edited by Linwood Cousins ...
    Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity is the first encyclopedia to reflect the changes in the mission of human services professionals as they face today’s increasingly diverse service population. Diversity encompasses a broad range of human differences, including differences in ability and disability, age, education level, ethnicity, gender, geographic origin, religion, sexual orientation, ... Read more

    $453.59 USD

  • Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences

    by Paula E. Lester, Deborah Inman, Lloyd K. Bishop ...
    The Handbook is intended for all researchers in education and the social sciences-undergraduate students to advanced doctoral students and research faculty.Part I provides an introduction to basic quantitative research methods, including analysis and interpretation of statistical tests associated with each method. Examples of qualitative designs and mixed methods research are also included. A ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Changing Culture of a Factory

    Edited by Elliott Jaques ...
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Urbanism

    by Peter F. Smith ...
    Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.For further information on this collection please email [email protected]. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Ways to Increase Utility of Major Irrigation Projects in Command Areas

    by Anindita Sarkar, A. Amarender Reddy, Sandra Ricart, Shaheen Akter ...
    The objective of the book is to document best practices in managing the major irrigation canal systems to maximise the benefits to farmers in terms of increase in utilization of irrigation potential created under the major irrigation projects. The main emphasis on how best we can manage local canal systems to increase farmers incomes in a sustainable way in a multi-stakeholder perspectives which ... Read more

    $4.99 USD