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  • Caste and Kinship in Kangra

    This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes. The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of caste ranking; the ... Leer más

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  • Classes of Labour

    Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town

    Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor ... Leer más

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  • The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention

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    Series series The Ethics of ...
    Few topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial. When confronted with humanitarian crises abroad, many feel that outsiders are not only justified in using force to halt the abuses, but that they ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin Disraeli

    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Leer más

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  • Promised Lands

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  • The 2020 Presidential Election in the South

    Series series Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
    The 2020 Presidential Election in the South details how the 2020 presidential election developed in the twelve states of the South. This edited volume features preeminent scholars of Southern politics who analyze the momentous Election of 2020. In addition to chapters organized by state, this volume also focuses upon the issues that drove southern voters, the nominations process in early 2020, as ... Leer más

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    The Shrinking of Treehorn

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    "If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table."But Treehorn wasn’t pretending. He really was shrinking, and that didn’t make life easy for him ashe became smaller by the moment. Treehorn’s teacher said, “we don’t shrink in this class,” and sent himto the Principal. Poor Treehorn spends an unhappy day and night until he ... Leer más

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  • ExoFrontiers

    Big questions in exoplanetary science

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    This book is a compendium of key scientific questions, challenges, and opportunities across different areas of exoplanetary science. The field is currently experiencing rapid growth, and the book provides a front-row view of the advancements at the cutting-edge of the field. Each chapter contains a short exposition on the most important open questions, challenges, and opportunities in a specific ... Leer más

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  • Persistence of Poverty in India

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    Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political ... Leer más

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  • Swords in the Shadows

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