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Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods Varieties of Cultural Appropriation (1850-1950)
ISBN: PB: 9783593397627, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
220 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Looking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies – heavily influenced by both economics and sociology – as a lens through which to view the paradigm of transcultural consumption. The editors pres...
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American Studies in Dialogue Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique
ISBN: PB: 9783593393179, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
300 pp., 21.3x14 cm
American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars – armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research – flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessar...
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Managing Natural Catastrophies Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy – the Hawai'ian Example
ISBN: PB: 9783593396217, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 halftones
Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide, their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before? Globalization has led to more direct linkages...
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£56,00
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Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990
ISBN: PB: 9783593397788, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...
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£24,00
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Normality of Civil War Armed Groups and Everyday Life in Angola
ISBN: PB: 9783593397566, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
150 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In "The Normality of Civil War", Teresa Koloma Beck uses theories of the everyday to analyze the social processes of civil war, specifically the type of conflict that is characterized by the expansion of violence into so-called normal life. She looks...
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Gender, Work and Property An Ethnographic Study of Value in a Spanish Village
ISBN: PB: 9783593396613, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
250 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Why do young men born in many small villages in Spain tend, at the end of the twentieth century, to stay there, often remaining unmarried, while young women from the same villages tend to leave? In "Gender, Work and Property", Nancy Konvalinka explor...
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£44,00
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Welcome Home, Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946
ISBN: PB: 9783593397450, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
276 pp., 21.5x14 cm
During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory – ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incis...
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Studying Social Networks A Guide to Empirical Research
ISBN: PB: 9783593397634, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
220 pp., 21.5x14 cm
"Studying Social Networks" provides a concise, comprehensive introduction to the process of empirical network research. Students and practitioners new to social research will find easily understandable learning goals, numerous examples, and helpful e...
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£28,00
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Methods for Transdisciplinary Research A Primer for Practice
ISBN: PB: 9783593396477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
295 pp., 21.5x14 cm
To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has recently come to the forefront. By integrating multiple disciplines as well as the expertise of partners from the societ...
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£36,00
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Right Corporate Governance Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity
ISBN: HB: 9783593396958, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
324 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 colour illus.
The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management – one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. Malik's book is written for...
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