Sociology
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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
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Technocratic Visions examines the context and societal consequences of technologies, technocratic governance, and development in Mexico, home of the first professional engineering school in the Americas. Contributors focus on the influent... .... Learn More -
Disruption of Habits During the Pandemic [Paperback]
Marco Piazza (Editor); Corinna Guerra (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773297
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
In the year 2020, everything we used to think about our habits has been profoundly disrupted. Lockdown still represents an unprecedented experience for all those who went through it, radically affecting our freedom of movement and all those social... .... Learn More -
Digital Citizenship: The Crisis of the Western Idea of Democracy and the Participation on Digital Networks [Paperback]
Massimo Di Felice (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869774027
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
The Western idea of democracy, based on human opinions and the counting of votes, has become obsolete. The exclusively human form of democracy is being substituted by a new kind of contract which, through digital architecture, the internet of thin... .... Learn More -
Seniors, foreign caregivers, families, institutions: Linguistic and multidisciplinary perspectives [Paperback]
Boyd Davis (Editor); Alessandra Vicentini (Editor); Kim Grego (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773716
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
The studies included in this edited volume explore discourses surrounding the ageing population, those who assist them, their families and the institutions/organisations that offer services to them. Qualitative and quantitative theoretical inputs ... .... Learn More -
Rightful shares: Storying homes with the Punjabi diaspora in Italy [Paperback]
Sara Bonfanti (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773976
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Social Science
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The book delivers a rich ethnographic account of present-day Indian communities in northern Italy, considering their journeys of diaspora as well as dynamics of integration, focusing on the shift from first to second migrant generation with an im... .... Learn More -
Bad Cities [Paperback]
Ugo Rubeo (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9788869772818
Published by : Mimesis International
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 -
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
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 -
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: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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 -
Woman Today: Comparative sociological-juridical research on gender inequality [Paperback]
Francesco Nicola Maria Petricone (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 9788869774058
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Research on gender inequality uses limited and sectoral areas as a reference. A team of scholars, academics and researchers from fourteen different countries – Cuba, Haiti, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Tun... .... 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
Sacred eroticism has been an important if neglected feature of Western esotericism from the early modern era down to the present day. Founded in Romania, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) turned sacred esotericism int... .... Learn More
