Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Biehl Joo)(Paperback)

Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Biehl Joo)(Paperback)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad,

Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism (Povinelli Elizabeth a.)(Paperback)

In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the global distribution of life and death, hope and harm, and endurance and exhaustion not merely sensible but also just. She presents new ways of

Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming (Biehl Joo)(Paperback)

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research,

Social Research Matters: A Life in Family Sociology (Brannen Julia)(Paperback)

From the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is conducted and 'matters' at particular times. This fascinating work covers key developments in the field that remain of vital concern to society and

Life in God's Now: The Sacrament of the Present Moment - Jean Pierre De Caussade's Self-abandonment to Divine Providence for Everyone (Obbard Elizabeth Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social Life (Seeley Thomas D.)(Paperback)

The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the

The Social Life of Things (Appadurai Arjun)(Paperback)

The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of

Connecting sounds: The social life of music (Crossley Nick)(Paperback)

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads. Musical interactions are often also economic interactions, for example, and sometimes political interactions. They can be forms of identity work, for

Wellbeing and Quality of Life Assessment - A practical guide(Paperback / softback)

Wellbeing and Quality of Life Assessment is a practical resource for people working in social or development policy and practice who are thinking about integrating wellbeing or quality of life in their work in both the global North and South.The main body of the book presents different tools that

Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life (Sayer Andrew)(Paperback)

Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is

Amina: Through My Eyes (Powers J. L.)(Paperback)

A moving, fictional account of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, SomaliaAmina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government

Language Development (Kempe Vera)(Paperback)

From the first moment of life, language development occurs in the context of social activities. This book emphasises how language development interacts with social and cognitive development, and shows how these abilities work together to turn children into sophisticated language users--a process

Essential Concepts in Sociology (Giddens Anthony)(Paperback)

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts

Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland (McCarthy Patricia)(Paperback)

A deft interweaving of architectural and social history For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country estates they resided in were carefully constructed to accommodate their cultivated lifestyles. Based on new research from Irish national collections and

Collected Stories (Bowles Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Presents stories of abandonment and vengeance, in which extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God has no power there; a husband abandons his wife as they honeymoon in the South American jungle; and a boy's drug-induced

Out of the Comfort Zone (Luikart Kenneth)(Paperback)

From the beginning Ken Luikart paints the picture of a life in the sunny south. 'Out of the Comfort Zone From Appalachia to the Atlantic Ocean' is a biography of his life after Vietnam left him damaged.He married in 1971 to Sandra Bardell and attended Lake City Forest Ranger School in Lake City

Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (Porter Theodore M.)(Paperback)

A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the

Life in Revolutionary France (Harder Mette)(Paperback)

The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new

Sex and Crime (Fanghanel Alexandra)(Paperback)

A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, this book sensitively confronts the surrounding issues of nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To expose and explain how sex and

Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Edwards John)(Paperback)

Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how

Kansas in August (Gale Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

A witty, warm novel of childhood and abandonment - 'Modern, excellent and sympathetic' Stephen

Quantum Mind and Social Science (Wendt Alexander)(Paperback)

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical

The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Gmez-Barris Macarena)(Paperback)

In The Extractive Zone Macarena G mez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces G mez-Barris labels extractive zones-majority

A Week in the Life of Rome (Papandrea James L.)(Paperback)

In first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost. An urbane Roman landowner and merchant is intrigued by the Christian faith--but is he willing to give up his status and lifestyle to join the church? Meanwhile his young client, a catechumen in the church at Rome, is