Sociology
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Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection [Paperback]
Joe Nickell (Author); John F. Fischer (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813197005
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
The O.J. Simpson trial. The Lindbergh kidnapping. The death of Marilyn Monroe. The assassination of the Romanovs. The Atlanta child murders. All controversial cases. All investigated with the latest techniques in forensic science. Nationally respe... .... Learn More -
Peoplehood in the Nordic World [Paperback]
Ove Korsgaard (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788772197258
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: The Nordic World
What do we mean when we say "the people"? In a Nordic context, the word "people" was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation but of a household, church, or state. The term remains a battlefield of mixed or even opposing inte... .... 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
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 -
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia [Hardback]
Luke Manget (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780813183817
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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 -
Nothing Special: The Mostly True, Sometimes Funny Tales of Two Sisters [Paperback]
Dianne Bilyak (Author)
£13.95ISBN: 9780819580290
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: The Driftless Series
Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert with a knack for getting what she wants, while the author, her younger, t... .... 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)
£27.00ISBN: 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 Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community [Hardback]
Randolph Paul Runyon (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780813152387
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
On June 8, 1883, Rev. Elisha Green was traveling by train from Maysville to Paris, Kentucky, when about forty students from the Millersburg Female College crowded onto the train at Millersburg accompanied by George T. Gould, the school's president... .... Learn More -
Toward the horizon: Lennart Edelberg and the Danish Hindukush research [Paperback]
Ulrik Høj Johnsen (Editor); Schuyler Jones (Editor); Torkil Funder (Editor); Taj Khan Kalash (Editor)
£29.00ISBN: 9788793251229
Published by : Aarhus University Press
This book has two main objectives - to provide an overview of Danish research in the Afghan province of Nuristan, as well as to understand the scholar, collector, and man, Lennart Edelberg, who was crucial to its shaping. Ethnography as an academi... .... Learn More -
Understanding Social Conflict: The Relationship between Sociology and History [Paperback]
Liana M. Daher (Editor)
£20.00ISBN: 9788869771613
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Since the beginning of the last century Weber argued the indissoluble link between sociology and history. His approach saw the relationship between history and sociology as based on (a) mutual and essential support, and (b) logical priority, accor... .... Learn More -
The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts [Hardback]
Nancy D. Campbell (Author); James P. Olsen (Author); Luke Walden (Author); Sam Quinones (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781949669244
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
From 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie busted for dope went to the Narcotic Farm. Equal parts federal prison, treatment center, farm, and research laboratory, the Farm was designed to rehabilitate addicts and help researchers discover a cur... .... Learn More
