Social Science
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Healing Power: Living Traditions, Global Interactions [Hardback]
Cunera Buijs(Editor); Dr Wouter Welling(Editor)
$150.00ISBN: 9789088909191
Published by : Sidestone Press
Hidden healing practices exert fascination as well as stimulate extensive scientific and public interest. It is a contested topic for many indigenous peoples. Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalized or severely... .... Learn More -
The Origins of the Changos [Paperback]
Dumitru Martinas(Author)
$29.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781592110797
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
The term Chango (Csángó) refers to a population whose ethnic origin has been the subject of much controversy. The term originates from the Magyar language in which it means “mixed” or “impure.” Most Changos li... .... Learn More -
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities [Paperback]
Prof. Frances Lennard(Editor); Dr. Andy Mills(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9789088909719
Published by : Sidestone Press
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishing... .... Learn More -
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities [Hardback]
Prof. Frances Lennard(Editor); Dr. Andy Mills(Editor)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088909726
Published by : Sidestone Press
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishing... .... Learn More -
Future Humanism [Paperback]
Anna Maria Rufino(Author)
$11.99ISBN: 9788869772849
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
The theme of this pamphlet is the knowledge, reread in its own origins and in the transformations of the middle-global world where the deep meaning appears lost in the conscious awareness. The risks, fears and conflicts that cross the society, esp... .... Learn More -
In-security [Paperback]
Anna Maria Rufino(Author)
$11.99ISBN: 9788869772856
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
The middle- globality is the time of the “not occurring”. The uncertainty of not existing, in all its – individual, social, institutional and economical – manifestations dizzily transforms the social system, destroying it i... .... Learn More -
Choose Decide Change [Paperback]
Anna Maria Rufino(Author)
$11.99ISBN: 9788869772863
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Choosing, deciding and changing constitute the common thread of everything that we want and that we do. The deep transformation of all social system, in all its dimensions has profoundly resented of the diverse possibility or in other respects, of... .... Learn More -
Designs on Death: The Architecture of Scottish Crematoria [Hardback]
Hilary Grainger(Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781910900307
Published by : John Donald
Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are ‘invisible’ buildings, visited only by necessity, and they have not received the attention they deserve. Crematoria present a real challenge fo... .... Learn More -
Clockwork Enemy: Intolerance in the Era of Neo-nationalism [Paperback]
Alfredo Alietti(Editor); Dario Padovan(Editor)
$27.99ISBN: 9788869772696
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
The relationship among neo-nationalisms, populisms and racisms has long existed in the political landscape of western societies and, today, it is a key issue to understand current affairs and the popularity of racist, anti-Semite and Islamophobic ... .... Learn More -
Society and the City: The Dark Sides of Social Innovation [Paperback]
Guido Borelli(Editor); Maurizio Busacca(Editor)
$24.99ISBN: 9788869772580
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Is there a connection between the increasingly widespread concept of Social Innovation (SI) and the success of today’s model of capitalist regulation? According to most studies focusing on SI, the existing relation is restorative in nature: ... .... Learn More