11,772円 Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explo...

12,933円 Social isolation has serious repercussions for people and communities across the globe, yet knowledge about this phenomenon has remained rather limited – until now. The first multidisciplinary study to explore this issue, Social Isolation in Modern Society integrates relevant research traditions ...

7,695円 Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely ...

11,275円 Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality ...

348円 Amerika hat durch den Sturm kürzlich mit katastrophalen Ereignisse gewesen, die unsere Stärke und Glauben als Nation getestet. Jedoch wie immer Amerika standhaft, und jetzt ist es Zeit für Amerika, treu die Versprechungen der Demokratie durch die Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen aller Amerikane...

10,943円 First published in 1998. This is the ninth volume of Historical Sociology and contains an extended essay on the Renaissance of Sociology which was originally written in response to write articles on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Alfred Vierkandt for his Handwortenbuch der Soziologie. As ...

561円 Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class has come to be regarded as one of the great works of economic theory. Using contemporary and anthropological accounts, Veblen held that our economic and social norms are d...

728円 Il nostro rapporto con gli animali è cambiato nel corso del tempo in modo profondo e irreversibile e l'esigenza di una riflessione etica sulla vita animale è divenuta sempre più urgente. Il testo vuole essere una breve introduzione alla bioetica animale, per far comprendere come si articola quest...

13,265円 Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.

7,296円 Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classica...

13,265円 We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life chang...

11,772円 What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, C...