Sociology
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Urban Infrastructure: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from History and the Social Sciences [Hardback]
Rae Zimmerman (Editor); Jonathan Soffer (Editor); Joseph Heathcott (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780822946380
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
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Seduced by Radium: The Making of a Familiar Commodity [Hardback]
Maria Rentetzi (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780822947066
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico [Hardback]
J. Justin Castro (Editor); James A. Garza (Editor)
£41.00ISBN: 9780822947486
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Hemispheric Blackness: Bodies, Policies, and the Exigency of Accountability in the Afro-Américas [Hardback]
Jennifer Gomez Menjivar (Editor); Hector Nicolas Ramos Flores (Editor)
£41.00ISBN: 9780822947226
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age [Hardback]
Efram Sera-Shriar (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780822947073
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the cent... .... Learn More -
Sacred Eroticism: Tantra and Sexuality in the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) [Paperback]
Massimo Introvigne (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869773747
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Social Science
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Sacred sexuality has been an important if neglected feature of Western eroticism from the century down to the present day. Founded in Romania, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) turned sacred esotericism into the centr... .... Learn More -
The People of the Nordic World [Paperback]
Ove Korsgaard (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788772197258
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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The modern meaning of the term the people has developed at least three different meanings: as a political unity (demos), as a cultural entity (ethnos) and as a social entity (pléthos). The concept became a battlefield with mixed and even opposing ... .... Learn More -
Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain [Hardback]
Elena Serrano (Author)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947165
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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In the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country’s most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Societies... .... Learn More -
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia [Hardback]
Luke Manget (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780813183817
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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The harvesting of wild American ginseng (panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply rooted in North America, but nowhere has it played a more important role than in the southern and... .... Learn More -
The Old Man [Paperback]
Karen Pallesgaard Munk (Editor); Michael Smærup (Editor); Kirsten Maibom (Editor); Kristian Park Frausing (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9788772191263
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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Old men - and especially old men living alone - remain an understudied group in the gerontological literature. The old man does, however, constitute a large part of the considerable demographic development, and old men living alone make up a rapid... .... Learn More
