Sociology
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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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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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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 -
An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee [Paperback]
Aram Goudsouzian (Editor); Charles W. McKinney (Editor); Elizabeth Gritter (Other); Brian D. Page (Other); Darius Young (Other)
£22.00ISBN: 9780813153179
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
During the second half of the 19th-century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, ... .... Learn More -
The Forgotten Clones: How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society [Hardback]
Nathan Crowe (Author)
£43.50ISBN: 9780822946274
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science, Values, and the Public
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Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning fro... .... Learn More -
Bad Cities [Paperback]
Ugo Rubeo (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9788869772818
Published by : Mimesis International
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From Larry Kramer's New York to Roth's Newark and Colla's Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of urban violence, its relationship with the forerunners of the genre, and how its main... .... Learn More -
Social Trust in the Nordic World [Paperback]
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9788772195926
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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Why does Scandinavia perform so well both economically and socially compared to the rest of the world? Study after study has shown that Scandinavia is the most trusting region in the world - Danes in particular trust other people, including strang... .... Learn More
