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  • - The Globalization and the Environment Reader
     
    85,00 €

    This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us?

  • - Dianic Wicca and the Feminine Divine
    von Kristy S. Coleman
    79,00 - 158,00 €

    Re-riting Woman is an ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca, a modern Pagan religion in which the divine is solely feminine. Kristy S. Coleman explores Dianic Witchcraft, what it really means to practice Wicca today, and how our understanding of womanhood can change with the experience of a divine feminine.

  • - From Classical to Contemporary
    von Hisham M. Ramadan
    67,00 - 159,00 €

    Ramadan brings together essays to explain the history of Islamic law and its role in the contemporary world.

  • - 14 Challenges of Philanthropic Leadership--And How to Outfox Them
    von Joel J. Orosz
    54,00 - 135,00 €

    This book examines the most common reasons that foundation managers fail, and details the steps they must take in order to succeed. In overcoming the seven vexing challenges and strategizing the seven inescapable trade-offs, foundation managers can learn to maximize their positive social impact and avoid unintended lousy results.

  • - Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century
     
    82,00 €

    Examines ethnic identities in countries around the globe, including Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the US, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. This title is a useful teaching tool for courses in race and ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

  • - The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System
     
    71,00 €

    Examines how food systems are changing around the globe. This book offers a cultural perspective and provides ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. It is suitable for professionals in economic and environmental anthropology: economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior and nutritional sciences.

  • - Conquering and Preventing Stress
    von Judith Lynne Hanna
    82,00 €

    Explains the cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of dance in a spectrum of stress management approaches. This book offers lessons learned from the experiences of people of different cultures and historical periods, as well as knowledge, on how to resist, reduce, and dance away stress in the disquieting times of the 21st century.

  • - The Native Experience in Books for Children
     
    87,00 €

    Evaluates children's books about Native Americans written between the early 1900s and 2003, accompanied by stories, essays and poems from its contributors. The authors critique some 600 books by more than 500 authors, arranging titles A to Z and covering pre-school, and K-12 levels.

  • von Marilyn Strathern
    66,00 - 159,00 €

    Challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. This book reveals unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images.

  • - New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions
    von John H. Falk & Beverly K. Sheppard
    70,00 - 168,00 €

    Thriving in the Knowledge age provides an entirely new way of envisioning the business model for your cultural institution.

  • - Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition
    von William Sims Bainbridge
    66,00 - 159,00 €

    A demonstration of how religion and religious belief can emerge using computer simulations

  • - Ethnic Narratives in Britain and America
    von Brian A. Belton
    66,00 - 155,00 €

    Examines stories of Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. This book offers stories of people and how they are made, their social force, and what they collectively create.

  • - Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East
    von Arlene Miller Rosen
    81,00 - 157,00 €

    This book provides a description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of changes in climate and how they affected social and political developments. It includes three major case studies of the Neolithic, Early Bronze, and Roman/Byzantine periods.

  • von Roger Blench
    106,00 - 199,00 €

    Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa

  • von Colleen E. Kriger
    79,00 - 177,00 €

    Charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings. This book focuses on the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century.

  • - Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past
     
    74,00 €

    Addresses the interaction between archaeology and nationalist, political, and commercial policies. This book is suitable for archaeologists, applied anthropologists, tourism and economic development specialists, and historic preservationists alike, as well as others with an interest in the preservation of archaeological sites as historic locales.

  • - A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships
    von Shirley A. Hill
    67,00 €

    Applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book is suitable for students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work.

  • - From Theory to Practice
    von Elaine M. Davis
    72,00 - 166,00 €

    Demonstrates the importance of contemporary learning theory and educational research to the development of effective programs in both formal and informal history and archeology education. This book includes chapters that cover teaching and history education theory.

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    153,00 €

    This handbook, a companion to the authoritative Handbook of Archaeological Methods, gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists on all aspects of the latest thinking about archaeological theory. It is the definitive resource for understanding how to think about archaeology.

  • - 1941-1942
    von Jurgen Matthaus
    100,00 €

    Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942, Volume III sheds light on the personal and public lives of Jews during a period when Hitler's triumph in Europe seemed assured, and the mass murder of millions had begun in earnest. The primary source material presented here makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.

  • - Currents of Change from Galapagos to Patagonia
    von Sarah Keene Meltzoff
    158,00 €

    From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people. Sea lions are the fellow denizens in nature who share the perpetual changes and are seen as metaphoric selves. Meltzoff uses storytelling rather than explicit theory to help explain local struggles and survival strategies wrought by extreme El Niño events and shifting political climates. Embedded within the six multi-sited ethnographies are global themes in coastal communities, from boom-and-bust fisheries to the rivalries among fisheries, tourism, conservation interests. The overall picture is sea-change and impermanence as a local way of life by the ocean.

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    73,00 €

    Interpretation helps the public understand our purpose and mission. In this book, we tackle how to orient your organization to be effective interpreters of what you collect; how to tell engaging stories; and how to address difficult issues you may have avoided. We provide a primer in historical research for the non-historian and the do-it-yourself basics for creating good exhibits, tours, and programs on a small museum budget.

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    73,00 €

    Museums exist to serve their audiences. This book describes how you can better relate to your audience, looking at how small museums are engaging with and advocating for their communities. We address marketing and public relations, visitor services, accessibility, and easy ways to find out what your audience members think about and want from you.

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    73,00 €

    A characteristic of all sustainable museums is long-term financial stability. In this book, we explore how to transparently and accurately account for the financial resources you have and then provide a template for fundraising more dollars to sustain your small museum. We address grant applications and legal issues as they pertain to financial management, human resources, and other topics in the Toolkit.

  • - Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
    von Martin Medina
    77,00 - 176,00 €

    A fascinating analysis of the world's scavengers as performing an important economic role in the production and consumption of food.

  • - The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America
    von Chas S. Clifton
    55,00 €

    A history of wicca and neopaganism in the United States focusing on the post-WW II period.

  • - Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment
    von Alf Hornborg
    71,00 €

    Argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes.

  • von James A. Holstein & Jaber F. Gubrium
    67,00 €

  • - 1938-1940
    von Alexandra Garbarini
    100,00 €

    Volume II begins with Kristallnacht in 1938 and continues through Jewish flight out of Germany, the onset of World War II, the forced relocation of the Jews of Europe to the East, and the formation of Jewish ghettos, particularly in Poland.

  • - A Mixed Methods Approach
     
    76,00 €

    This collection of individually authored chapters provides cutting-edge approaches to ethnography. Specialized Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach complements the basic inventory of ethnographic data collection tools presented in Book 3 with a number of important additional approaches to conducting ethnography. These include defining and collecting cultural artifacts, collecting secondary and archival data, cultural sorting and comparing methods, spatial research and analysis, network research and analysis, use of multimedia strategies for the collection of ethnographic data, ways to recruit and study "hidden populations," and participatory ethnographic video production.

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